Ford - Ford Fleet - Introduction to the 1993 Escort and Orion (1992)
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- Ford - Ford Fleet - Introduction to the 1993 Escort and Orion (1992)
Information on the 1993 facelift for the Escort and Orion
Narrated by Tony Bastable, featuring Chris Goffey
In 1992 Tony Bastable did a Ford video like this slagging off the new Astra for having a catalytic converter and side impact protection bars that the Escort didn’t. Sell his granny for a fiver that man. Should have stuck to Magpie. Rest in Peace.
The Orion was rusty by the end of the video.
🤣
And the valve stem seals would of been shagged too
The reason other manufacturers don't fit heated windscreens is because Ford patented the idea and won't allow anyone else use it. Jaguar cars had them whilst under Ford ownership, but had to delete the heated windscreens from the car's specification when the company was sold to Tata.
That's odd as I once had a brand new 2016 top spec Skoda superb with a heated front screen but it wasn't the wire in glass style like on the fords, or range rovers I've had with the feature. Had a loaded galaxy and Kuga with micro element type quick clear screens over the past few years though so it's maybe that they own the element design and not the blanket technology. The Skoda had like a gold film at certain angles (looked like the cockpit glass on a dreamliner) and I think it might have been some conductive coating that transmitted the heat and power rather than the micro elements on the quickclear, which tbh, any thick frost it wasn't much use anyway!
Why isn't Chris Goffey still doing reviews, he was so fluid and professional back when the others were wooden and awkward.
He passed away some years ago. Once Top Gear hit mid 2000’s he seemed to have fallen out of favour by Top Gear production for whatever reason?
@@markturner-smith5309 Not according to IMDB, Wikipedia, or various other sites. He is pushing 80, so I think he's allowed to not still work for your entertainment, though :D
Chris Goffey in a tweed suit saying "rotters!". I think this was the most English moment in TV history - I miss these kind of programmes.
😂😂✔️
My dad traded his Sapphire Cossie for a 1993 Escort LX so that I can learn to drive in it. I never forgave him, and neither has he.
And neither do i
All the stuff Tony Bastable said was good in the new escort he dissed in the 91 Astra lol
Yeah, he was such a slimey fucker.
@@lewis72 Well with Ford paying his wages he would say whatever they told him to say! lol It was a sales pitch not an objective and factual comparison.
I owned an 'oval grille' Escort saloon 1.8 L Diesel for a few months. For £250 it was a surprisingly good car with a comfortable driving seat. It was slow and it was slowly disintegrating but for the money it exceeded my expectations.
Chris and Tiff were my favorite car reviewers
I had a '98 S-reg Escort 1.8 Ghia X, in black. That thing had a 6-disc autochanger where that oddments bin was located, a power height adjust on the driver's seat, sunroof *and* Aircon, and was the epitome of swift, luxury motoring. Bring back my Escort!
Lol, company speak, for, we didn't get it right first time, hopefully we have now....
LOL, so Ford added all the things the Astra got in '91 and Tony Bastaple passive aggressively claimed were utterly pointless. 🤣
I just watched that vid 😂
Yes, Bastaples an arse hole.
He flagged up what he thought was a danger in the Astra with the 1-hit window close, citing that a child could lose a finger but that assumed that a child was in the driver's seat with the ignition on !
What a dick.
Anyway, he's dead now.
Chris Goffey legend!
It's just a shame that they built them to last 12 years then completely drop to bits. I had an L-reg 1.6 LX in 2005, and it was utterly miserable. The indicator lenses fell off within a fortnight of each other, the gearbox jammed in 4th gear then the replacement destroyed itself, the steering rack leaked and so did the replacement, it burned a litre of oil a week, the ignition timing was much too advanced but was meant to be under electronic control, it stalled when changing gear, and the rear wheel arches fell off.
I replaced it with a P-reg facelift Mondeo 2.0LX, which was hard to believe was a product of the same company, it was so much better.
Meanwhile, my 87 orion still lasts. Unfortunately, repaired and painted it in 2015, but rust and rot came back to the rear window... Bummer.
Different wheels on that Orion - Offside had Ghia wheels and the nearside had Ghia Si wheels!
The steering wheel is designed to absorb impacts from your head.The mind boggles
I had a K plate 130ps XR3i. You could tell it was the higher powered 130 model as it had discs at the back. It actually went ok and gripped well to give it some credit.
@Henry Discipline It did.
IMO, the Rover 200/400 series were far better than Escort/Orion in the early '90s.
@@lewis72 against the mark 4 offerings from Ford I'd agree. Nothing later though.
@@bigbill74scots
All Escorts (minus Cosworth) were dreadful after Mk4.
@@lewis72 I disagree. The mark 5 showed up the rover offerings quite badly, it was a new design that drove and went well with the new twin cam zetec engine and was well appointed inside with a good stereo. The river offering was at that point a 12 year old design and really felt and drove like it. Hard to believe they were still trying to get those old dogs to compete when the focus gen 1 came along shorty after and was two generations ahead of those pensionable designs.
Ooh, a 16v engine and power steering......! So basically with the '93 model it got all the features it should have had from launch (and that most rivals already had). Crazy to think that just 5 years later the same company that came up with that mediocre and uninspiring shed turned out the mk1 Focus which left all the competition standing! What a complete turn around!
My understanding is the 94 will have an exciting new fascia.
I can't wait.
I don't know how I'm going to cope either. The thought of an Escort or an Onion with a new fascia is affecting my sleep and life tbh
My dad had one of these for a bit as a temporary company car and it had the body coloured door handles.
It was a dog of a car though, everything about it felt cheap and nasty and apparently it was crap to drive although I was too young to drive it myself.
The thing I remember most oddly enough though, was how the backs of the front seats had a big hard cheap plastic thing glued onto them, never understood why though
I remember those. It was a wear and tear thing. They improved that later.
In 2001 I had the 92 Orion 1.6 efi 16v Ghia and I loved it, but after some twerp in a Renault 21 crashed into while it was parked and wrote it off I "upgraded" to a Sierra Sapphire 2.0 GLSI but I much preferred the Orion.
How come you preferred Orion over Sierra Sapphire?
Remember the advert when the oval grill came out . They labelled it the new 16v escort. Not seen one on the road for years now
Heated front windscreen was patented by Ford for 25 years from 92 hence no other manufacturers used it
Even before then. My 82 Sierra had a heated front screen
Yes, my gran's 2000 focus (1.6 LX X865UYC) had the climate pack so had the heated front windscreen, quite useful and I always wondered why no other brands had them, the patent makes sense. Trains have had them for years though, so not a new idea to motorised transport. @@gd8202
The 92 Escort looked better.
The only let down is they didn't stand up to England's Annual salt bombardment of the roads.
Sills and arches rusted liked crazy
Even worse in Scotland’s annual salt and grit blast. And then there was the mk3 Fiesta which took that to an all new level. I like Fords a lot (loved the Orion Ghia Si of this generation), but it wasn’t until the launch of the Focus in 1998 (and then all subsequent new cars after that) that Ford finally got their corrosion protection properly sorted.
Even with all its faults i still prefer the original Mk5 ( 90-92 ) to the ones shown in this video which is the Mk5B.
I prefer the noisy and harsch CVH to the boring, quiet, smooth Zetec ( CVHs sound far better than Zetec when it comes to induction / exhaust sound )
As far as styling the Mk5 3 door hatches at least still had SOME character ( like the RS 2000 ), although still nowhere near as sleek as the Mk4.
With the Mk5b they completely ruined the styling by making it round, blobby, especially the front grille and rear lights, they make me yawn just looking at them.
The mk1 ford focus that followed is one of if not the best styled solid built cars ford has ever produced. even in 2019 they look fantastic and have stood the test of time
Memories of my ford Orion 1.8 ghia 16v 👍
Had the Escort equivalent. True luxury for us both.
I have as a daily car an 94' Escort Sedán (Orion) 1.6 Zetec engine and still works perfectly... And still not rusted
That two-part rear light treatment, the update over the 1992 escort, only the XR3i version is correctly alligned. The L version the boot is just a bit to high... Just such a thing which once seen can't be unseen. I've the same with a lot of Tesla's
good upload buddy
Could you please upload the video introduction to the 1993 Ford cars and commercial vehicles range?
Funny thing is, 2 years before this in a video they are trashing the new 1991 opel corsa because they have catalytic converter (not convenient), iron bar in the doors (too heavy), one touch front window (can chop your finger off). They've added all these to 93 escort :)
We had a 1990 ford Orion with a 1.4 cvh my mum got it behind he's back he wanted the 1.6 Ghia and the 1.4 was gutless and my dad still held that grudge till the day he died.
So nice video, do you have the Introduction to the 1989-1994 Ford Fiesta? Just a petition from a subscriber, thank you.😜
Funny to mention Lotus Elite since that also used a Ford engine!
My first car, escort LXI 1.6L zetek 1993 L plate.
That music . my god
Never liked the facelift grill. Ruined the front end imo.
When will this be coming out?
came and vanished
I don't need to be told that the M25 will be jammed solid when I leave work in the evening, I already know, only too well, that it'll be jammed solid. It's still jammed solid now, probably the same traffic that set off in 1993. In 2019, they still haven't made it home yet. Partly because the M25 is still a crap road, and partly because the Escort LX and Orian Ghias they began the journey in rusted away after the first few hours.
Not sure what's happened here but the audio and visual don't match at all :( unwatchable at the moment.
Hey - thanks for posting this comment, audio should now be fixed.
@@rovr cheers, thank you.
and then 6 years later came the best car of the 1990s: FOCUS.
Ha....rite you are
They forgot to mention the radio in the ‘93 models display the Reg Number of the car on the stereo so that they can be traced if stolen
Hard to overstate how much these new engines were needed. My first car was a 92 Escort 1.3, originally available in the Anglia and it was an utter bag of crap. Harsher than a bucket of rocks and Manual choke and it cut out on me one winters morning doing 35mph up a hill with traffic all around. Electrics were terrible too
I'm pretty sure that old 1.3 lasted until the end of escort production, and well into the new millennium in basic Fiesta models and the Ka. Amazing they were able to peddle such a crude 1960s designed engine for so long!
@@soundseeker63 I had a W-reg Mk5 fiesta with the 1.3 as my first car. My upgrade to a Puma was a big step up
I just must have the latest model. I also bought my first house for 39p.
Goffey reminding the viewer that he’s never going to lower himself to actually owning a Ford plebmobile himself because he’s got a Lotus.
No visuals on my screen... ? :-(
My dad had a '93 1.3 Escort. Utter ****box of a machine.
Would love to watch a similar video for the Jaguar X-type.
Low series had a 130 speedo and high series had a 150 speedo
Hi Ford are you still fighting the class action lawsuits from around the world regarding the sale of vehicles fitted with your design fault disaster powershift gearbox ?
So much better then 2nd generation US Escort. Whatever happened to the Detroit managers, when the decided to copy Mazda platform?
Yeah you need to sort the audio out - it jumps back to the beginning....
Hey - thanks for posting this comment, audio should now be fixed.
No worries; thanks for uploading 👍🏼
You could hear these rusting
Compared to Rover200/400, Peugeot 306 & Golf these were crap.
That said, the memory RDS system is pretty good, don't think my '03 BM has that !
@@lewis72 Yeah, that stereo was about the only innovative part of the car. Pity the rust proofing of the body didn't last much longer than the radio memory i.e a couple of minutes! lol
Yeuch. Always hated the Mk5 Escort. No wonder they had to abandon the name when the Focus eventually appeared.
If your company wanted rid of you you might get one of these as a company car
Remeber Ford scorpio 2,9 as a kid
Alexander Jonsson they were beasts 👌🏼
You are a gooooooooood car Ford Escort
That was a pup of a car.
Gear 5 at 25mph😲
Новая модель 1990г не выдержала критики из-за низкой пассивной безопасности и компании Форд пришлось в срочном порядке ее модернизировать
Chris Coffey is God!
Peugeot 306 was a far better car.
Nice enough car but was never a contender against the Rover 200 series.
Rover at that time was just a rebadged Honda tell me if I'm wrong
@@Bates.Eral1 From around 88 to 98 yeah they shared parts. Most critically... engines.
@@Bates.Eral1 Yes they were based on Hondas. And all the better for it. Honda's cars were better than Ford cars in almost every way at that time. Better than Rover's previous efforts up to that point too.
Rust buckets
beautiful car but not a quality mk4 E /MK2 O
Goffey.. paid promotion
obviously
Hand written receipts
to be honest 80s styling was better.
Gosh the narrator sounds like a really posh southerner, as if he's talking about a Bentley
Better than the tossers today who can hardly string three words together
Probably the worst face-lift ever performed...
They’ve rebadged it you fool!
I have 1992 Orion 1.8 disel....worst car ewer👎👎👎👎💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥Sasa Serbia
Why is this shit in my recommend?
Rust buckets all of them
Terrible cars
EVERY ESCORT EVER CREATED WAS AN UTTER HEAP OF EXCREMENT TO DRIVE.
all rusted away with 5 to 8 years.
all fords are shite even the 2019 gt mustang..i owned one and it was dreadful
ford make pos cars and should be avoided like the plague