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 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!
@@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.
@@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
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!
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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 ?
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!
@@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
@@Bates.N1 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.
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