It is a sibling of the Mazda Tribute and Ford Escape, although it is more upmarket than the other two.
Mariner is a triplet and shares its basic design with siblings Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute.
A sibling, the Mazda Tribute, shares the Escape's mechanical components and carlike unit body, but has distinct styling.
Also, the dash board was not the same as the US Escape; it was instead taken from the Mazda Tribute.
In Australia, it was a rebadged Mazda Tribute with a different front-end and tailgate built in Taiwan.
The Mariner was introduced as the clone of the Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute.
There is no point in getting a makeover unless you can show it off, so Ford has dressed up the Escape - and its cousin, the Mazda Tribute.
The similar Mazda Tribute will also receive a hybrid-electric powertrain option, along with many other vehicles in the Ford vehicle line.
It shares its basic design with the Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute.
It lends its basic design to the Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute.
