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Climate Controls

If you’ve been in any recent Ford product, the Escape’s climate controls will be old hat. There are three big knobs for driver and passenger temperature, with a fan control in the middle. Vent positions are controlled by buttons around the fan knob. The fully automatic setting is the best place to put it all, and the dual-mode setting can be turned on and off with the touch of a button. Single-mode seat heaters are nice (multiple settings are better, however), and we found that our black test car cooled off quickly even on warm days.

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