We don't have a 2009 Escape, but we have owned two of them. We bought a 2001 the year they came out and loved our XLT used it ,loved it till it became a Geigo sandwich. The car in front of him that caused the accident and the car behind him was also insured by Geigo thus a Geigo sandwich. It had over 100,000 miles and we had no intention of replacing it. Because of the accident we bought a 2006 XLT and love it. No troubles and fairly good gas milage.