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Nothing on this video has aged a day, the soundtrack was on point as well.

A guy that lived up the road from me back in the 80s/90s was a Cosworth fanatic. He owned a RS500 Sierra Cosworth and later (when i was old enough to drive) an Escort Cosworth in the same blue. I remember following him through town, both of us going a little too fast to be legal (but not crazy speeds) At that time i owned an Astra GTE 16 valve, a rapid hot hatch and the Cossie wasn't exactly blowing me away. That was until we reached a very tight corner. He shot round that VERY tight corner in damp conditions without even touching the brakes! Behind him i had to brake heavily before the corner and then very slowly accelerate out of it, my GTE slithering with understeer and sliding. I barely got round that corner being right on the verge of a spin. The Cossie went round as if on rails with zero slide or hassle at about 30mph, it was incredible haha! After that i had a new found love of Cossies, especially the awd versions.

The cossie is an iconic car! But i love the mk1 focus RS too tbh! Cool cars! Take me back to the days of this fifth gear, i miss the early 2000s

Maybe it's because I'm old, but the escort looks far better and is so much more desirable..

I used to work for Ford years back and, while the RS was well received, the disappointment over what it should have been / could have been was tremendous. What Ford initially promised was watered down to what was finally delivered.

The Cosworth is a legend

Good watch always wanted a cosworth when I was a kid either the Sierra or the escort 🔥🔥🔥

To me there's no contest, the Cosworth is a proper sports car, 4x4 and faster. The Focus RS was such a let down and never been desirable car for me, I hate torque steer it ruins all fun.

I don’t care if it lost, the MK1 focus RS is my choice

Remembered watching this on TV. I was praying the Escort battered the Focus 🤣

4wd, lighter, more downforce, developed in conjunction with cosworth. It was always a no brainer which was gonna win 😂 at least VBH talked dirty throughout 🤯😂

I noticed the rear wheels stopped rolling in one of the curves. I was wondering if you left foot brake to help keep understeer in check.

When I was 16, I hitchhiked from Cornwall, home to Manchester. I was picked up at Gordano Services near Bristol by a guy in a brand new Escort RS2000. He was driving to Leeds and went out of his way to drop me off outside my home address. He said he had a brother my age and wanted to see me home safely. Happy day.

Both are good cars better than any over hyped type r

Great video and great rally cars Vicky..... but i always dreamed of Lancia Delta Integrale. 😍

Good to see Vicki 💪👍👌🌹

As an ex Cosworth owner.... Don't meet your heroes. Disappointing as a drive, amazing to have in the garage.

Just loved that cossie in my teens and still do now........

The Cossie is still a great looker to this day. The first gen Focus styling is not my fave.

Jason Plato did 1:25,95 with the Cossie in the Fiesta ST comparison

Cossie FTW - it's on the numberplate ;) Still love the Focus RS too...... Ford turned it around in the 90's, first came the Mondeo, then Ka, Focus etc etc and they've just got better and better ever since.

The Cossie is a great car. I test drove a couple but they were above my budget if the insurance costs were added to the price!!!

I had always wanted a focus rs

Incredible to think that just a few years later, family estate cars running on diesel would leave both of these cars for dead.

@4:14 Why would you do a handbrake turn on a dry tarmac if you wanna go as fast as possible?

I love the Ford Focus RS! The Focus RS was introduced in the WRC in 1999 & Colin McRae moved from Subaru to Ford.

I remember in Maxx power magazine, the comments for the cossie in the insurance section at the back just said 4,7,10,30,47,48 should just about do it. They were my lotto numbers for the next 26 years lol 😂 never won enough to buy a cossie though 😳

Cossie for me please, Loved these things all my life.

Friend of mine had a Cosworth and we went to Donington in it one year and it was a fantastic outing

Love a bit of josh wink…to start a video off

Man that background tune gave me a rave flashback. Big box little box

Great item thanks

A guy in my street has a escort and a couple Sierra cosworth and a rs focus mk1 and the new one very nice cars

Such great cars the Cossies. Be it Escort or Sierra, 3 door or Sapphire, 2 wheel drive or 4x4. Even today a well driven one will hold it's own, against much newer and more expensive machines, around a track. And they still look so damn cool too. Although for the remaining years of production ford offered the Escort with the rear wings as an option, in a desperate attempt to lower the insurance rating, trying to make it appear like a lesser Escort, and not so Cosworth like, it's just not the same without it. Also, whereas the original 3dr Sierra version was a bit rough and ready, by the time the Escort came out, although still based on the Sierra platform, it had become a pretty civilized car, and was just as happy taking the kids to school as it was going on an early morning blast around some deserted county roads. Fantastic! Unfortunately, so are the prices good examples fetch today 😳! Lastly, when Vicki mentioned the five figure insurance premiums, back in the day, it reminded me of when a much younger Jeremy Clarkson had one on long term loan from Ford, (lucky f**ker), and he said on Top Gear, I think, that just out of interest he phoned up to get an insurance quote. For him, early 30's at the time, living in London, with the car parked out on the street, one quote he got was something like £21,000 for the year. If I remember correctly, the car was only £20,000 new

Saw a White Escort Cossie brakes fail he went straight passed me on the left and hit the Armco barrier at at least 150mph. It disappeared in a huge ball of sparks and red vapour , I’ll never ever ever forget the Thunderous noise of the impact. It had Coventry city f.c badges on it, but it’s the noise, it’s like a rollercoaster crash. Whereas the Focus RS has no engine and so there was no chance of a huge smash. RIP...the victims in the Southam white cossie

Vicky BH is still the best Driver on TV, I don't know where she learned to drive like that but she has serious skills. Awesome Driver.

I would have both with a lottery win!

The Cosworth won as expected - it's what they do!

Best Focus RS is Volvo powered MK2 😎

I have always loved your segments, buuuuut comparing cars, especially on a circuit race track the tyres would play the leading roll. 😘🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼🍀🍀🍀😎

Cant beat the old Cossie, imagine if it had its normal power 330bhp-380bhp that most people were running back in the day. Was around £1k to get it up to 380bhp iirc.

Escort cost 25k 25 yrs later Escort costs 25k for a rough one 😁😂

4 wheel drive is better than front wheel drive. I wonder if it would have been a tie if the Focus had 4 wheel drive

So, isn't there an AWD Focus RS? Surely that would be a more reasonable comparison?

What is the song at the start?

Well that's the Focus shot down!

There's a bright yellow cossie for sale in my country right now. $68000... I wish lol.

I know which one I’d love for my daily ride...

Shame it's one of the later small turbo cossies not the real badboy early version. Ford really screwed up when they didn't release the 4x4 Colin McRae RS focus.

Where's the drag race you muppets 😂

Different result on a dry track! Remember the Focus beat the Impreza by 4 seconds around top gear track!!

Definitely my favorites💪🏾🔥👊🏽

Cossie , Josh Wink, Prodigy oooo cushion 😵

Sorry. It it’s the escort all day long. Better looking, sounds and interior. A true classic

I'd have both

The never should of scrapped the escorts or the Sierra rs

Think the only FWD car of the time that could perhaps beat the cossie would be an integra type R

Focus RS is at least affordable for now.

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Wow.... She can drive!

those poor road tires 😂

Breath the pressure 🐜

Pretty pricey in their day. But I guess my MkII was pretty pricey too.

The Cossie all day baby

Is that Josh wink I hear ? 😅

Track name at beginning

The Prodigy :D

Ah but there was also the FOCUS RS which was the ultimate road going Focus. Be interesting to rerun that test.

vbh looking nice...

The Cosworth is the perfect car.

144mph top speed is pathetic for such a revered car.

Fantastic the best 😍🤩👏🏻👍🏻💥

I'd sort you out vicki x

Why didn’t they make the Focus RS in RWD 😢

Stop trying to make "music " videos and bin that noise !!!

Had a focus st 170 would love a rs escort though

Sold my 3 door for 3k sold my escort for 10k....... all I can say is fuk me

I love it when a hot blonde with a sexy accent knows how to handle a stick shift 😉.

This blue golf gti 16v is great. I miss my golf.

Should have been a rs focus really.

4wd focus would dominate if ford had the balls.

This is new

Queria um desse esse é top lindo maravilhoso esse carro é show

I remember there was a man who lived around the corner from me who had the escort cosworth but he go rid of it about 10 or so years ago I bet he's kicking himself now knowing what prices they are fetching now as I don't think he would of getting that much for it even though it was in pristine condition

Isn't she beautiful?♥️

The focus Rs was such a disappointment compared to the escort

Cossie everytime

A friend made the only rs cosworth cabriolet featured in max power, ford wanted to buy it.

I would have the Escort over this focus. However the newer focus RS I would have over the Escort

The focus RS is nothing like the Escort Cosworth.

I drove a escort cosworth on a test Drive and it was disappointing, didn’t live up for the hype

Cossie all day 👌

Turbo lag

Yessssssss

Good girl... I liked that👍🏻

The Escort is soooo beautifull.. In person the car is awesome.

Cool a you like .👌

Escort is way better

I'll tell you what's faster around the track... My 2017 RS.