The Success Of The Ford Escort
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2013
- Chris Goffey takes a look at Ford's best selling car ever - the Escort, going through some of the iterations it has gone through over the years, and asking owners why the car has been such a success.
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0:07 OLG 536L, Mk1, registered Feb 1973, tax due 1 Jul 2007
0:08 YBV 135M, Mk1, registered Dec 1973, tax due 1 Jul 2000
0:25 G327 JEP, Mk4, registered Oct 1989, tax due 1 Nov 2003
1:32 BFW 356K, Mk1, registered Jun 1972, ✓ taxed till 1 Jan 2020
2:10 ACB 17V, now apparently a new numberplate of a 2015 Mazda
2:54 WJC 277V, Mk2, registered Apr 1980, currently SORN
3:27 G735 AOO, Mk4, registered Jan 1990, tax due 1 Jun 2002
3:58 K236 ARE, Mk5, registered Aug 1992, ✓ taxed till 1 Nov 2019
4:19 M101 UHK, Mk6, registered Aug 1994, tax due 31 Dec 2007 (for some reason it says "IVECO-FORD" on the GOV site?)
6:01 T492 MBU, Focus, registered Mar 1999, tax due 1 Apr 2001
6:05 R541 YJA, Mk6, details not found
M101uhk I guess is a paperwork mix up at registration that no one noticed as the DVLA site also says it’s a 2.5 diesel. It does happen when I worked at a Rover dealers in the 90s we had a pair of Metros in for service that had identical regs due to a paperwork mix up somewhere. One ended up being re registered in a new reg
XR2 was a Fiesta not Escort. Also the Mk5 came out in 1990, the 1992 cars were an emergency facelift that became known as Mk5b
No it wasn’t , it was more than a facelift and in the dealers I worked at the 92 escort was known as a mk(6 , there’s just too much different to say facelift
The Mk 1 was always the best looking, and the one I'd have.
I have a Gold Ford Escort Mark V with 1,8 liter VW EA827 engine. O love the design and It is pretty reliable. Even before I bought It, I already knew about all the hate Escort Mk5 suffer, but it hadn't affect me
My first car was in 1975 , a 2 year old dark blue 3 door MK1 1300L .Nice car.
My Dad had a MkI Escort from 1974 on a 'M' reg. He also had a 1965 Corsair and a 1984 Sierra. Never had an Escort myself but I have had a 1964 Corsair, a left hand drive 1995 Fiesta and now have a 2004 Focus. My Corsair had no floor but it was good for running about in! My left hand drive Fiesta saved me in a head on crash as the right side took the brunt of the damage caused by the driver of a VW Passat driving in middle of the road around a blind bend on a narrow country lane.
I remember selling a 2 .0 L mark 1 for 350 quid 😣
The shape changed between the mk1 and mk2 escort but did the estate mk2 keep the same profile as the mk1 ?
I used to own Ford Escort mk2 1.3L in Roman Bronze Metallic 1980 V.
Focus never cut it for me, love the Ford Escort, I’ve owned 3 of them
I am a massive ford RS fan, ive owned a mk1 RS MEXICO and a RS1600i, looking to build and some more in the future.
I love my mk4 from argentina, here the brazilians put the golf's mk2 1.6 1.8 engine and transmition, olso the did the same with mk5 but it came only with 1.8 and 2.0
My third car was a £150 Mk IV Escort. It ran like a champ and was still on the road until 2011 until some bugger stole it. Mind you it was a bit rough by then :) But when I first got it in 2005 it was a very smooth motor. Not the cheapest car I've owned, the cheapest was a free Fiesta 1.4S which was the car I owned before the Escort :D
How many quarts of oil do those older ones hold? Mine is a 2000 Escort SE I have been restoring and it holds 5.5 quarts of oil with the PH3600 oil filter.
depends on the engine fitted. difficult to tell anyhow as in Europe we use litres rather than quarts now to measure oil
K236 ARE is still used for shows and sunny days by the same owner, looks quite a bit different now though! 😁
Also built in Homebush Australia alongside Cortina
A mate of mine had a mk1 950 Escort a rarity even new. It struggled to hit 75 mph.
That isn’t a real RS2000, Real RS2000 had the nose cone with twin headlamps.
Early ones were still flat front, it was only the later models that had the polycarbonate nose cone and four cibies
Mk2 RS2000s had a droop snoot apart from poss S African ones (think I read that somewhere years ago)
Exactly - That front isn’t correct for any uk RS2000
My last escort was a 1996 1.6 serenade in pepper red it was a special addition it came with a sunroof and other extra bits and bobs we were invited to the lunch of the focus when my wife seen it we hat to have one in pepper red my son end up with it and my wife bought new 03 reg Ebony which she still owens with 66000 on the clock. I have had 3 cars since she got hers mine are the work horses I have just traded in my vw polo tdi after 12 years with 100.4000 for 65 reg Astra diesel I love the torque from and the mpg.
Love my 1988 XR3i Cabrio, good looking, fun to drive, reliable, parts are cheap as peanuts and easy to get, i use it as my daily driver and just cruising on the motorway on my way to work every day it does 35 Mpg, and it runs on cheap 95 E5 Petrol.
More economical to run than my 1999 Peugeot 106 1.1...
Oasis better call the music lawyers about that music at the beginning.
mk1 making good money ! Now ! !
i now own both a mk2 focus and mk4 escort, focus daily and escort for fun
Amazing how the mk5’s and 6’s have disappeared
not really. they rusted like hell (even compared to the mk3/4) and once the mk5 came out, they got too heavy and i felt they werent as good (yes they were faster, handled better etc but they never FELT quite the same and i have had examples of them ALL except the rear drive ones, and multiple examples of them)
Yes they have pretty much disappeared but I still have mine. It's an early Mk.5 3 Door(J-reg) with the 1.4 CVH engine instead of the later Zetec engine. It is near mint with one previous owner before me and only has 34000 on the clock from new.
The car you’ve always promised yourself was Fords sales slogan in the late 60s for the Capri.
Good car escort I’ve had 8 of them!👌
Delboy Trotter must not have been too good, you’ve had 8 of them! 😑🚗
After the Mk2 ford went down hill😡
Rose tinted specs?.I have had a mk2 a mk3 and a mk6.....The six was the most comfy ,Handled well and looked stunning (Gti spec)..The 3 was....my first car so loved it regardless and my mk2 ex rac rally car...after a six month bare metal rebuild...lasted half an hour before being wrote off....An 850t5 squished it!.....But none of them handled as well as the lotus suspension equipped Focus...which I hate!
ford escort was always amazing especially the mk3 onwards!
I agree I hated the mk3 onwards. They become boring fwd hatches without the same soul
i wishd id had some day mk1 escort. mk2 escort. fiesta. granada and sierra
Grande escort
ive just sold both my mk1s and my mk2 harrier .63 thousand , ive had them 20 years ,
And then came along the mk1 ford focus which blew the escort away in every possible way!!
mk1 and 2 were always more exciting to drive (owned a mk2, mk4 xr3i, mk4 rs turbo)
It may have been a bestseller but it was also very commonly stolen! A flat-head screwdriver would get you past the door locks and ignition system of most escort models! At least now you have to be a pro to take a modern Ford without keys!
RUSHY 01 vauxhall astra was the same.
that was the case with pretty much ANY brand of the era! a coathanger to open the door and flip the hazard light switch upside down and you could start a vauxhall!
The mark 2 escort is that successful that you can buy brand new shells for them. And body parts and everything to build a brand new one.
0.24 and in IRELAND
The Transit Mk1 was Ford's best ever creation me finks
The robbers getaway favourite in the late 60s/early 70s along with the Jaaag 😊
As a child of the 90's it seem strange to me that Escorts were once considered cool/desirable cars.
I remember rusty mk3s/4s everywhere, boy racers in XR3is, and fleets of 1.6LX Mk5/6s everywhere you turned. They were the byword for common and humdrum by the mid 90s. Not desirable at all, except for maybe the RS Cosworth (which had something of a drug dealers + joy riders association at the time). I think in may ways they made the car blander, uglier and less characterful with each subsequent generation which culminated in the utterly indifferent Mk5. The Escort name was somewhat tarnished by that point which is why the had such a radical rethink with the Focus.
I'm a 1980s baby, but still child in the 1990s and the Mk1 and Mk11 Escorts were Soo cool! Comparable to the WRXs
Also built in cork Ireland
MA MA no uk not cork Ireland
@@louisbeerreviews8964 there was lots of escorts built in cork
MA MA sill wrong
@@louisbeerreviews8964 i have 2 Cork assembled ford escorts (mk2) and 1 mk4 cork assembled ford cortina sitting in my garage at home
@@louisbeerreviews8964 and if you still are too tick to understand ur wrong LOOK it up
Ford Escort was made in India as well.
Ford went rallying with the likes of Roger clark and hannu mikola and ari vatanen that's why it was so successfull
The Escort mk1 and mk2 cope 1.1 and 1.3 also made in Israel
Dagenham Dustbins.
I can see the pain in his eyes - talking nice about a Ford. From the man that 'allegedly' received many 'brown paper envelopes' in order to tell us that the Metro, Maestro and (get this) the Montego were better cars than the equivalent Ford models. I think this was a damage limitation video before he quietly disappeared from Bottom Gear never to be heard of again. A very rich man
Never make your old mistakes....a shit wobbler from day one...a moving time bomb...
'would you say people are enthusiastic about escorts'.... time worp to 2020 XD just look at the ebay listings
The ford escort in the US was nothing like the UK versions it was rubbish in the U.S.!
BennysBenz wrong the us didn’t have a escort only uk
louis beer reviews and real ales Carft beer yeah they did but it was different to the British escort
They did my mother had one and had seatbelts that retracted along the inside if the roof getting in and out....you want to do some homework before commenting
@@louisbeerreviews8964 yes they did get the escort. ive seen pics of them. they were vaguely similar to our mk3 in europe
louis beer reviews Hoppy beers The USA did have an Escort and when introduced it was vaguely similar to the UK Mk3 but with American styling, dashboard and engines. It was supposed to be a “world car” but the amount of parts interchangeable between a US and Euro Escort was laughably small. The US Escort went through some changes, styling tweaks and updates over the years (Google the 1988.5 Escort!) etc. and it sold reasonably well, but it was never loved and is largely forgotten these days. Mercury also sold a version called the Lynx, both Ford and Mercury selling 3/5-doors and estate versions, as well as ugly 2-seater coupes called the Ford EXP and Mercury LN-1, which we’re Escort-based.
A new Escort arrived in 1992 but that was based on Mazda’s 323/Protege range and it never sold as well as the original car. You rarely see any of them now.
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I HAD A ESCORT WAGON!! PIECE OF SHIT!!
MK1 Was the Worst Propperrrr Granny Waggon. Mk2 onwards tho 👌