I bought mine because my 2001 GMC Yukon Denali was approaching 200,000 miles and something new would go wrong with it every week. My wife had a 2009 Escape for a few years and I really liked that truck, due to the fact I felt I needed to downsize, only one riding in my vehicle 95% of the time, and I never really towed anything with it. Wife totaled the Escape and got a 2011 Edge Limited. I really thought about getting an Escape but they changed the design, I think they look too small now in my opinion, the Edge I thought would be perfect for me. Then they changed the design of that for 15 which I really didn't like as well compared to the 11-14 design. So because I didn't want to buy a used one found a brand new 2014 Edge Sport loaded down in Nebraska in December of 2015 with only a 100 miles on it, drove down there and bought it after I got them to come down 8K from sticker price on it.