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The Ford Motor Co. said its new gasoline-electric hybrid sport utility vehicle will not be available by year's end to fleet customers as originally planned so the automaker can conduct internal testing. Initial plans called for a limited number of hybrid Escape SUVs to be delivered to fleet

customers by the end of 2003 for external testing. But Ford has decided to do the testing internally and, as such, will launch the hybrid Escape for fleet purposes late next summer, the same time it debuts the SUV for read customers.

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