( http://www.TFLcar.com )  The new 2013 Ford Escape is a European inspired crossover. The new Escape is now a premium vehicle with almost every new technology that you can purchase in a vehicle including self-parking, blind spot monitoring and a rear hatch that opens with the kick of a foot underneath the rear bumper. In this TFLcar first drive review we put the new 2013 Escape to the test to see just how much Ford has improved the vehicle from the previous generation. Of course in Europe the Escape is called the Ford Kuga so we wanted to find out just how much European DNA can be found in the American version of the car.