Ford Sierra GVG 510Y

[sierraman]

13 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I’m sure I’ve seen a MK1 Focus on XR2 pepper pots and it looked like a roller boot. 

Backwards fitting alloys always ends up looking cack. 

[danthecapriman]

Ages back I sold a set of the deep dish 5.5j dartboard wheels to some bloke who turned up to collect them in a mk1 Focus. He then proceeded to fit said dartboard wheels to said Focus out on the street outside my house!

It looked absolutely shit😆

[Missy Charm]

On 09/01/2026 at 10:49, adw1977 said:

No, the first 5 speed Granadas appeared in the October 1982 brochure, the same month the Sierra went on sale.

The humble 1.3 Escort was the first UK Ford to be available with a 5 speed gearbox, sometime between October 1981 and May 1982 ( I don't have any brochures in-between those months).

I never saw the point of fifth gear in the 1.3 Fords as it seemed to be slightly too high a ratio for the engine to manage comfortably.  There was no acceleration at all in fifth and the cars never seemed to be able to maintain speed on any sort of uphill gradient.  One could, if memory serves, actually go faster in fourth, too.  

Unbearable pedantry alert! (read the following in a nasal voice)  You might not quite be right about the first five-speed Ford in the UK, in that I think a few road-going GT40 Mk1s were built.  Those, as in the 289 cars, had a five-speed transmission.  Do they count as Fords available in England?  God knows, but I know which I'd have if offered the choice between a GT40 and a 1.3 Escort...

Incidentally, Ford's went back to four speeds for the GT40 when they moved on to the big-block cars.  

More to the point, it's great to hear nice things are happening to the Sierra!