Vehicle report
2012 FORD ESCAPE HEV
This model year
What the record shows
The 2012 Ford Escape Hev is the 8th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 2005 to 2026.
NHTSA's best overall crash rating for this model year is 3 out of five stars.
No complaints, recalls, investigations or service bulletins are on the federal record for this model year.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.