Wonderful vid from back in the day.... I had three of the four higher performance models.... 1600 sport RS mexico & RS 2000....I sure wish I had kept them....😂
I had four Escorts. The Mk3 RS turbo Cabriolet, RS 1600i and they were far better than the MK4. The Mk4s were all Dagenham Dustbins. The ones built in Germany are still on the Road. Mk4 were rot boxes. Why do the Germans always build things far better? The British built ones were named Friday afternoon cars, as it looked like Kevin wanted to go home early for tea.
My first car after passing my test in the early 80s. White on which I put 4 Wipac spot lights on the front. Even remember the reg OCE180M . I later had a purple one after my Mark2 Mexico
I remembered when ford Australia switched to Japan for the replacement lasers of all kinds 1981-2002.we were not to see another European in the class for 21 years.
Ford has made some nice cars over the years, including the Escort MK2 Ghia and the MK3 Ghia. Both those cars were great, but the Escort MK4 and MK5 was the beginnings of F.O.R.D. Losing its way, especially when it closed down its huge manufacturing facility at Ford, Dagenham U.K. But a lot of manufacturers have had similar fates, with increased competition, stringent safety laws to abide by which can change the overall look of a car and the way it handles the road. But if Ford can recapture it’s heyday in some way, without designing, tacky retro looking cars, it might just be onto a winner. But electric cars are the future, but they just don’t sound the same as a combustion engine running, often, which gave each Ford unique exhaust sounds, when you started up your car.
I am.48 years old and I wonder why this car design is so appealing to me. Sadly the new Ford models today like Focus has no semblance to MK2, rear wheel drive and timeless design esp the tail lamps.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas station per city. From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any more....:-((
Much the same as the Mk1 underneath but still a decent looking and handling car. The 1.1 and single carb 1.3 weren't fast though, even by 70s standards.
The Mk2 was the shortest lived Escort with a production life of just over 5 1/2 years, which was largely due to it being little more than a revised Mk1. By comparison, the Mk1 was in production for nearly 7 years, the Mk3/4 for 10, the Mk5/6 for 12.
@Galaxie Invader Ford internally doesn't recognise the Mk3 and "Mk4" as separate generations. They both have the same platform code ("Erika"). As does the Mk5/6.
@@johndrake2729 it still looked ok but it was very uneconomical on fuel and the interior was out of date compared to newer models like the Astra. A friend had a late model 1600 Ghia which was lovely but the MK3 looked a lot more modern and was nicer inside and generally faster with the OHC engines. I remember being so excited when it came out, there was one parked out near my home before the launch. I guess the owner worked for Ford. Probably only the MK1/2 gets recognised as a classic now though.
