Help me ID a make/model from a sliver of a trail cam pic

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On a local trail we have a Tactacam setup to catch turds dumping trash/doing drugs etc. A few months ago I was able to catch an arsonist on this cam. He made several attempts to torch 150+ acres. He got burned. Localized global warming aside, fast forward a couple months, the cam gets obliterated, likely by a gunshot. Bits of it are stuck in the tree. Nothing on the ground. This cell based cam communicates fast, this is the last image it caught.

I haven't been able to figure out the vehicle..any ideas?

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Man, this is harder than I thought. I've been looking at car rear ends for an hour with nothing. Pretty much everything I'm seeing that lower reflector is horizontal.

Closest I've come is an Acura MDX, but the tail lights are way off.
methusaleh said:
Wheelbase looks short but that could be a matter of perspective. Rear end looks like a golf cart or very small vehicle…?
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Golf carts usually don't have sportily styled side view mirrors.

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My first thought was one of the newer Buicks. They have very unusual tails.

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We have a rural waste transfer station where I witnessed three dead heads trying to unload a wrecked pickup truck off a flat deck. The ground was icy and they couldn’t get the non rolling truck off the deck. They went to the edge of the dump where there was a tree and tied the wrecked truck to the tree. The driver put the truck into 4 wheel drive and was spinning all four wheels. Very comical. Anyway, I didn’t want get in close to get a photo of the plate but wished we had that Tactacam.
 
Pew said:
One of the newer Ford Escapes

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One thing I'm unsure is because of the angle of the picture, I am unsure if it's a 20-22 or a 23-24. According to this Ford Authority article, the taillights between the years are very similar except the 23-24 is surrounded in red light (left pic) while the 20-22 is clear on the bottom (right pic).

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Pew said:
One thing I'm unsure is because of the angle of the picture, I am unsure if it's a 20-22 or a 23-24. According to this Ford Authority article, the taillights between the years are very similar except the 23-24 is surrounded in red light (left pic) while the 20-22 is clear on the bottom (right pic).

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Definitely 2024 IMO

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You guys are awesome! I'll update when I have more information.

I picked up two new tactacams tonight. One to go in the exact same spot and another one that will be undetectable keeping an eye on this camera.
 
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