For Sale Epic Escort Estate Emporium

[Cavcraft]

The escort is great for one thing - for making you realise how good the focus is.

 

 

That's what I've been saying for years. The Focus is nothing special at all, really nothing special, but nothing could possibly be worse than the car it replaced, which is why people rave about them imho.

[Bren]

That's what I've been saying for years. The Focus is nothing special at all, really nothing special, but nothing could possibly be worse than the car it replaced, which is why people rave about them imho.

For a mid sized mass produced FWD car they are sharp to drive and also still look good - the escort is neither.

[Split_Pin]

The Focus totally rips the arse out of the Mk4 Astra in every way except possibly rust resistance.

[HH-R]

Never liked the Focus in any incarnation, the dashboard of the mk1 is particularly offensive. Given the choice It'd have to be the mk5/6/7/999 Scrote.

 

Admittedly never driven a mk1 Focus when new (probably all feel sloppy now anyway) but driving dynamics have never worried me.

[doobietoo]

Every other car ever built totally rips the arse out of the Mk4 Astra in every way except possibly rust resistance.

 

 

Ftfy

[warren t claim]

I hate to admit it but FWD mid market hatches probably peaked with the mk1 Astra. 

[CortinaDave]

The late escort and mk4 Astra are similarly cynical, built down to a price, crappy cars and it's personal preference which offends you least.

 

I owned two of these late escorts and found them... Alright. Last one was a diesel W plate bought from auction for £120, and for that money it was the donkeys knob. 50mpg and a decent stereo and good heater was all I was after. When the test ran out I weighed it and got £200.

 

The focus, although design wise isn't my taste - is leagues ahead.

 

But this is autoshite so natch I'd have an escort instead. With such low miles this one would probably be nice enough to drive and plod in for a fair while at low cost, but the initial hassle of registering and testing it etc makes it probably not worth doing.

[Taff]

I have to agree. I know mine was an exceptionally bad example but things went wrong with that car (newest and most expensive car I've ever owned) that I have never experienced before or since in 27 years of owning rubbish cars. Every single bit of it was precisely engineered to be not quite up to the job.

 

I've just noticed your avatar!

 

I've got a saloon version and I can confirm after 1000 miles of ownership that it is ordinary.

 

Even with a Sheryl Crow CD stuck in the player, life in the escort is best described as average. Still, ever day is a winding road

[oldcars]

That'd be tight on the tree.

 

These cars are just inexcusable, soz, the only thing to do with them is crush the whole sorry lot of the last ones remaining.

Just a hunch but i am guessing your not a fan?? 

[purplebargeken]

Scrap collection scheduled, awaiting company to make final collection date/time. Sad that we couldn't get a new home sorted for it. Seems a bit of a waste but what can you do. 

 

It could only sit in my mate's yard for so long tbh. 

[Cavcraft]

No bad news?

[purplebargeken]

Nope

 

Had a quick drive of it and it does indeed drive very nicely. I guess you really can't save them all.

[Cavcraft]

This'll cheer you up then: The Terios I sold blew up on the way back to the buyer's house. I told him it would, advice I repeated just as he was getting in it to 'see what it's like' down the back road. Full tilt in the first gear or so.

He didn't mind as he has another with a good engine that he rolled, so he was making one good one out of two.

[purplebargeken]

Your Terios with a fucked engine but tidy body, the Escort with a great engine and rusty body. Maybe they could mate.

[Cavcraft]

Head on, on an oval. 

[purplebargeken]

Fair enough

[purplebargeken]

Escrote death drive/hiab experience c/o the local breakers scheduled for tomorrow. Car to be collected and disposed of by lunch time. Bye bye Escort. We tried, by goodness we tried.

[AnthonyG]

I guess it was a combination of the visible rot (in a car which is known for plenty of hidden rot) and the whole re-registration thing. Those two factors outweighs the 40k genuine mileage.

 

Plus the fact that the model doesn't have many fans anyway....you did your best, move on to more worthwhile shite

[Lankytim]

There was some guy on FB who paid £200 for a scrapyard 1.6 zetec engine for his escort and when it was delivered it was smashed to fook and had obviously suffered cam belt failure. 

 

Just thought I'd throw that into the misery mix.

[purplebargeken]

You are of course correct, found quite a bit of rust by the battery carrier yesterday when jump starting it. C'est la Vie. Still, it served colc well with his move, so it did what it was intended to do. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can I still have the rubber mats and badges please?

[Bren]

Shame.

 

However I am sure that if you really started digging you could have disposed of the car via Henry the hoover.

[purplebargeken]

Have the mats here, sorry I didn't get the chance to take the badges off. Please PM me with your address details. Cheers. Ken

 

Now scrapped, it will live on in bean cans used to fix our shitty exhausts. Maybe.

[Bren]

Site is'nt what it used to be etc....

[sporty-shite]

Site is'nt what it used to be etc....

Damn right it isn't. I was expecting photos of destruction.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hi have you still got the escort? Its just what I'm looking for etc.

[Rocket88]

Ken.......pm'd you my address.........many thanks for your help.