Ford Escape Curb Weight: 3,283 lbs to 3,904 lbs

Ranked on the lightest configuration of each nameplate, the Escape is 11 of 98 in Small Sport Utility Vehicle 4WD, 665 lbs below the 3,948 lbs median and lighter than 87 of its peers.

The lightest 2015 record is 3,605 lbs; the lightest 2026 record is 3,283 lbs — 322 lbs lighter (8.9%).

At the top of the range the 2026 file reaches 3,904 lbs against 3,777 lbs in 2015, a 127 lbs increase — driven by which configurations exist, not by the same truck gaining mass.

Every body style recorded in both drive layouts gains exactly 137 lbs moving from two-wheel to four-wheel drive — about 4.2% of the two-wheel-drive figure.

The published 14.2-gallon tank holds about 87 lbs of gasoline at 6.1 lb per gallon, and curb weight is measured with it full. Run it to empty and the 4dr SUV 2.5L Hybrid AWD is effectively a 3,817 lbs vehicle — 2.2% of the figure quoted above is fuel you will burn off.

With a 2.0L EcoBoost with Class II Trailer Tow configuration, the 2026 Escape is rated to pull 3,500 lbs — 0.9 times the 3,904 lbs the heaviest recorded truck weighs by itself, and 1.1 times the 3,283 lbs of the lightest.

That rating belongs to the 2.0L EcoBoost with Class II Trailer Tow build, not to every truck on this page: a 4dr SUV 2.5L Hybrid AWD starts 622 lbs deeper into the combined rating than a 4dr SUV 1.5L FWD before a trailer is coupled.