TOWN OF CHAMPION, New York (WWNY) – The Ford Escape. It\u2019s one of Ford\u2019s best-selling SUVs, with 130,000 sold last year. But the 2026 model won\u2019t be allowed in New York State now that New York and 5 other states have adopted California Emissions Standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just emissions when it comes to catalytic converters, the gases that it emits. There\u2019s a lot stricter constraints on the motor that Ford wasn\u2019t willing to do on the Escape. New York State wants to become greener, and we\u2019ve had limited things that we can do here. EV [electric vehicle] things and whatnot, we\u2019re really pushing as well,\u201d said Jenna Sheehan, Sales Manager at Caskinette Ford.<\/p>\n
The changes also mean you can\u2019t bring in a 2026 Escape and register it in New York, which could affect Fort Drum soldiers.<\/p>\n
Sheehan says not having the popular car on their lot near Carthage will be a change for customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a big change for us. It\u2019s a big culture shock for our neck of the woods. It\u2019s been very reliable and it\u2019s a consistent purchase for a lot of people, ages young through elder age. So it\u2019s definitely going to be a change for Ford,\u201d said Sheehan.<\/p>\n
Owners of the older Escape models shouldn\u2019t be impacted by this change. The vehicles can still be insured, registered, and sold just the same as any other vehicle. Just not the 2026. The Escape\u2019s final model.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew that they were going to be phasing it out, so at this point it didn\u2019t pay to set up plans and retool things for something that was going to be obsolete. There\u2019s a lot of models they\u2019ve taken from us over the years that were core vehicles, so hopefully they can fine-tune what they\u2019re bringing out and make it comparable to what we\u2019re used to,\u201d said Sheehan.<\/p>\n
As Ford stops making the Escape next year, it intends to have another choice with the Ford Bronco Sport, which it says will be a similar compact SUV that Escape owners are familiar with.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF CHAMPION, New York (WWNY) – The Ford Escape. It\u2019s one of Ford\u2019s best-selling SUVs, with 130,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28112,28113,28115,28111,28116,8354,28114,9,11,10,49,51,50,56,3904],"class_list":["post-50155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-ford-escape","tag-california-emissions-standards","tag-caskinette-ford","tag-emissions-standards","tag-ford-bronco-sport","tag-ford-escape","tag-jenna-sheehan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}