the big wing in the back that was suposed to have 3 instead of only two downforce boards along the back window as the original engenier and designer said when it came out i felt like i was carrying a huge volume atatched to the back of the car and everybody that passed by me were looking like if i was driving a weird thing ,i even took it from the car and put the regular one that almost every escort at the time had ,but it grows on you and i install it again this to do refer that makes the car incredible safe at high-speeds i remenber driving in a highway at 160km´s hour and felt like the car was almost stoped, i remenber looking to the body and notice that in diferent panels there were lines opened to help its stability as on the back of the top there was a decrease of height having a air flow to the lowest wing(sorry if my english is confusing)

Girls car though innit

@petter todger Got any more tall stories...??

Ironically, it was designed by an American, Spanish , British designer... I disagree with you, that car was ahead of its time. Did you know that it inspired BMW M3 ?

@@dinorossi6611 the M3 was launched years before the Escort Cosworth…

@@aaroni5074 yeeet your self

Proper times, this car was the bollocks back in the day 👍

I was leaving a club in Malta and one was in the parking lot. I had a Merkur XR4Ti in America and although I knew of the Cosworth Sierra, I didn't know about the Escort RS until that moment.

@MT Property Services Definitely!

@Karl Juice in germany?

Heard clarkson pronounce it exactly like that 🤣👍

@@DaleSteel ok chuckles..... How about a little positivity instead of spreading misery?

Fair point but he is right

@@DaleSteel not seeing the word "hate" anywhere in my comment....

@@DaleSteel lol! It's an easy mistake to make when you're in a negative state of mind. I've had many moments of negativity/misery myself and now can't help but pick up on unnecessary negative situations. No malice intended, just trying to focus more on the fact that all this content on KZfaq is free, and while it's not always to our own tastes...... Doesn't mean it deserves immediately putting down. ;-)

Cosworths always had that unique look to them!

A whale tale eh? Go on, spill the beans, tell us all what the story was.

@@Tinker1950 💀💀

the engine it´s the same but one as not 4x4

@@Tinker1950 It's a bit rude for KZfaq. It's about Moby and what he did with his Dick.

some cars can still be special even if they're average to drive

I remember that Cossie, it was a beast

Always a pleasure Roger

Lotus carlton

Yep, you had to be there to understand how amazing these boys were 👍

Agree...you had to be in one to see what they were all about. A friend of mine around '95 had one. Just to be clear he was a lunatic, older and had a bit of change and drove it too the max. When we were in it, or even him driving past, you knew what that machine done. To put it into perspective, we have have cars that do this now, but my god this was 25 years ago!!!!!

Although I see where your coming from and being a young boy who loved these when growing up and still does to look at. Some of the Japanese offerings around that time were superior to the escort. A JDM spec Integra type r would be very similar in performance amongst many others.

Yes very rare to see and really gives me a chance to appreciate them

A bit like this one that has popped up for sale, with only 217 miles on the clock.... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r591pK511bywYoE.html

Porsche 911

Cossie

Actually its a double skinned floorpan,whereas the Sierra's isn't. That's why the Escort is a bit heavier.

@@Deanyfromtheburgh must be a bit stiffer Aswel then?

@@bencosturbz7755 ,yes,not as flexible as the lighter sierra,safer in a crash too as the floor won't crumple as easy.

Welp.. I still do. The prices have gotten unreachable at the pace I have managed to gather some funds. The same damn deal as with air cooled Porsches. Add that Lancia Delta Integrale into the bin as well. 15 years ago it was "uh, I only need to save 15 grand more". Now it is "uh, I only need to save 30 grand more"..

@@akkual It's mad really. I owned a Sapphire from 2001 to 2006, and when I came to sell it I couldn't give it away. They were worth more in parts than they were as a whole car. I cannot remember why I ended up selling it now, but I do know that I regret it. It may not have been the best car etc, but it was the most fun car I've owned.

I still do snd I'm a 38 year old from Cleveland Ohio 😉👍

@@TheM5Dog Honestly It's Incredible I Have A Mate Who used To Own A Evo 2 delta Paid 8 Grand For And Sold It Because A Rear Light Cover Costed 400 quid and now they're worth best part of 50 Grand.

39 and I still dream..but becoming unobtainable price wise..

Maybe not so much on the new 4 cylinder one.

Except for anything after this car

I remember MK1 and Mk2 RS and they were far from special. The equivalent Alfa Romeo came with everything. The RS were crude basic mechanicals. Now the cosworths were different animals you got something for your money.

@@Muzzaa it's the best RS ever made

@@tracktimevideos5164 its boring and soulless give me the 2.5 5 cylinder.

Funny Tragic story. A guy at my Halls of residence at Uni in 1st year had a Lancia Delta intrgrale. His dad was a banking dude and lived in Switzerland. This was 92. The guy was a bit unhinged and one drunken night he came back and danced on the roof of his intrgrale and bent the fuck out of it. He dropped out shortly afterwards. Such a waste of a car and very probably a life. I guess his Dad was busy and not present enough when he was growing up? A lesson for us all. Luv and Peace. EDit:Typos

@@ianedmonds9191 and that man's name was Ian Edmonds...

Unfortunately he drove a not very well sorted Integrale. He should get in another one that is in good order.

I'd say he does like the Lancia but didn't like how it drove.

I also don't understand that, just the fact that the clutch on the escort cosworth is heavy as hell is enough to prefer the lancia.

I can't help but hear the above sentence spoken in a nasally tone...

I don’t think he put much time into it, the driveline was already sitting in the Sierra, and the escort was already in production.

@@checker3694 A little more than you would think actually this car has a sierra floor pan with the ferguson four four wheel drive system & bespoke body panels to make it look like an escort but none of the body panels will interchange between the two cars

Deviant Rider it’s pretty obvious the wings and rear panels are different, also the Sierra driveline that’s sitting under there nose. There is nothing bespoke about, its a rebodied sapphire cosworth. But it’s a better attempt than the mk2 escorts RS back in the day, at least you get something for your money with the cosworth fords.

@@checker3694 its not at all a rebodied sapphire its a shortened sierra floor pan & ford first used the 4x4 system in 1985 on the sierra xr4x4 which in turn was used in the mid 60's on the jensen interceptor FF

I mentally added Clarkson's "an Eeeevooohhh" right after

Actually that was a story he told about a Porshe 928. It was diring the Pattagonia Special where they had to leave due to the 'Falklands' number plate. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/js98lpp429O3j3U.html

@@MrNomadic76 Yes, odd that. I think it was in the South America / Argentina thing. The Escort story was printed in the Times on Sunday a few years before. So who knows?

Heard that story on KZfaq but it was about a Porsche 924 .. like he had a roast chicken out the oven and it was still warm when he arrived .. or something

21" wheels and tyres that are literally a coat of black paint round the rim!

Absolutely! My Elise will out-handle anything and it has 16s front and 17s rear.

@Solid Snake in what way do regulations require silly large rims and a lowering? Cars without them still exist but then comments are like 'it looks like a SUV, it's so high' and 'look at those balloon tyres, needs bigger rims' and similar.

@Solid Snake What regulations? List the regulations that 'force' manufacturers to have firm suspension and big wheels.

@Solid Snake I tried to look up, saw crap falling out of your mouth and so I left my desk.

those ford valvoline wrc escorts of the time are iconic

You really need to be in your 40s then you can say hey I miss that era of cars

Amen.

Then Essex boys love to tell people where their from🤣

Matt Y just so you know I was born in Essex as well

So let's see. Essex : Car enthusiasts. Sussex : Shit. (Source car throttle) Wessex : ??

If they were modified by a decent tuning company then they were good but a lot were bodged and you could get them to 300 to 400 bhp reliably

Seem to remember that the insurance premium was about the same as the cost of the car as the insurance companies knew that it would be nicked pretty quickly.

they did enjoy blowing hoses for fun too if you were a little enthusiastic :D

Yeh's was a nicker back in teh day, all teh car nickers where round nicking these cars they were so easy to nick too, only took a screwdriver and boo your car was nicked. If those damn nickers had nicked bmws instead eh, but them not so easy to nick coss they have nicker alarm and immobilizer to stop them from being nicked. Nick.

That sums up the styling perfectly. It just looks right, but you summarised it far more eloquently and succinctly than I ever could.

It was working class car kids lusted after them , today its BMWs and Audi's because of status reasons. Car scene better back then

thanks

I was into Capri's years ago, but 15K for a nice 2.8i and 20-25K for a 3.0S is just bonkers money, and people are still advertising them as "investments"

@@Markycarandbikestuff yep 50k for an old escort mk5 or a brand new 2020 BMW m2 competition? I'd buy the brand new car

If u think this can fetch 60k then a Lotus Cortina would fetch at least 200K the best Ford ever made

@@polygamous1 but these do go for that money I reckon 30k is more than 60k or 60k at least

@Michael Flitter not with 30k on you havent

@Michael Flitter A 30k big turbo lux , standard with sub 50k is a 70k car all day long.

@Michael Flitter a dreamer really ? I own a cossie so I dont dream about them secondly wot hole are you living in ? Do you not see the 1 in the papers selling at 100k? I think you need to wake up you asleep

Wow..what low standards you have..haaaaa.

Yeah it's not a pretty car purposeful yes maybe but beautiful it isn't

@@studio-flash are you blind or just an emotionless idiot?

Faster cars too on the motorway a rover 220 turbo coupe flew past must of been doing 150plus

Thanks Danny, welcome to the channel

Yes but never got muscle cars so pay back ha

Errrrr, RS Focus.

@@mickj.147 not as reliable as the escort and ford finaly admitted to the problems theyve had with the focus rs

@@russellpetrie119 yh emission problems. I dont think thats a problem with ford its a problem with some people that think electric cars will save the planet(they wont). People dont realise that a major cause of global warming is deforestation as your reducing the amount of co2 that gets turned into oxygen and therefore theres more and more co2. Eaven if we get rid of all polutants its going to carry on as theres not enough trees to sustain the amount of people on earth because of deforestation. Ok i think this whole thing i wrote was not needed but i hate people that are trying to take the good cars away.

nothing will save the planet everything has a life cycle i mean atm with convid could be armegeddon on slomo

Evos and imprezas were the invasive species of the rally world, great machines with no up front competition

It did but Ford only gave about 225hp for the cossie they could of offered 280ish but they for Insurance , but I think a Stage 1 got you to 280. But Evo and Scooby did take it to another level but the Cossie sent youth crazy

I don't they ever were affordable

ALY DAVIDSON a few years ago they were 14/ 15 grand now ££££&&

I did 😁

Wish I’d bought an RS 200 when they were selling them alongside bog standard Sierras....

12 years ago you could get a decent one for £20k

Kind words indeed

Alex Roebuck It’s like the old Top Gear and that’s not a bad thing.

This is spot on. There was a strange mystique about a cossie. I had a fast rsturbo that could easily beat a standard cossie but the question and mystique was always, is this standard or 3bar map with greens or some T4 8 injector weapon. You didnt know if it was about to be all show and not much go, or pretty damn fast or ultra warp speed if it was a full touring car spec build. That and you always had doubts about their owners and how nuts they were :).

@@stevenross-watt8640 The Escort Cosworth just looked so unlike anything else, that massive wing & the bulging arches. A working class supercar.

@@Zerofightervi yes indeed. Born for one purpose. Speed

Bet they looked cool as fook all stickered up n in white, like a rally car?

@@alymorning2961 ha ha yeah they did look cool 😎 , I bet the police 🚔 loved screaming around the streets in them it would be fun and they got paid to do it !

@@ryanmccormick2150 and ran red lights

You don't move your mouth when saying it

I think you're thinking of the slang for policeman?

Drug dealers

They all got stolen 😂

Did it have a decent sound system in it?

@@stoneylonesome4062 no,standard but in its day was ok

But an Impreza STi or Evo trounce on them all.

No thanks subaru the piston melters.

@@tracktimevideos5164 I was meaning these 4 models in a "1994" comparison. Impreza v EVO has been done to death.

Lotus Charlton aswell.

@ND7800 the Escort Cosworth was around in 1993 as was the Evo and Impreza.

@@Anttihii - True but where I grew up both cars popped up about 1994, until then it was still all RS Turbo's and Sierra Cosworths.

Loved the granada Scorpios and the xr4is those were the fucking days.

@@Anttihii - They were very fast standard back in the 80's & 90's. Even by today's standards they aren't slow. 200bhp in a reasonably aerodynamic lightweight chassis. The 2.0 GLSi I had wasn't slow, although a local engine tuner reckoned it had been messed with.

@@brianr9529 - I'd have loved and XR4i or a Scorpio but I couldn't handle the fuel costs. I got a Sierra 2.0 GLSi which was dear enough to run at 20mpg as I had to put my foot down everywhere as you do at 20 years old. The only car I've owned where people pulled over to let me past.

@@marcustaylor670 my first motor was a black rover 216 gti nothing to shout about but I thought it looked lovely.

I agree ,escort cosworth in one word crap.

Evo 5 and 6 were great cars. I had 3 over time and they were a different league to a Cosworth which I had in 1996.

​@@speedmyster1You do not know what you talking about

@@gmain1977 yeh ok ,I ran standard escort and sapphire cosworths 1 x rwd circa 350bhp.a few a little tweaked and my last sapphire cosworth was running 400bhp @ 2 bar on a T35 with grey injectors. Etc etc. Compare all of the cosworths to just one Makinen I had running 400bhp/360lbsftt zero to 60mph in 3.5seconds . I'm not dogging the Cosworths which were and are epic cars but the Mitsubishi Evos with only a little modification would run rings round the cosworths. You see I'm not just comparing the performance levels ,cornering etc.The Cosworths if you ran them you needed to be a mechanic tbh .I broke 3 gear boxes ,drive shafts several, head gaskets a few ,detted one engine ok not the engines fault that one.Then top it off a bottom crank shaft failure caused another set of bent valves lucky was at slow speed. Out of all of my evos not one blown head gasket,not one drive shaft broken,not one gear box failure and btw I was running a twin plate carbon clutch and abused that car . Now tell me I have no clue .

Aussie Aus Deutschland didn’t we have a special little Ford Sierra Cosworth? Won the Bathurst 500 with Kraus Niedvis but disqualified later

Also a Motorsport version

My step son's M3 would 525BHP 180MPH. He took it round the Nurburg Ring a few years back and destroyed a set of tyres. Lots of quick cars on here some of them are insane!

Stage 3😂🤦‍♂️

3.5 to 60? High doubts there

@@ARDEN440i must have been more than 350bhp

@@ARDEN440i This is what i was told. I experienced it on a your standard issue dual carriageway near my home town and it was hitting 150mph+ between the roundabouts.Honestly rediculous performance. It had been used in several top gear videos. I was told the 350bhp "Stage 3" tune would give it the best 0-60mph time, the 500bhp option was best for QM but had massive lag from the start. I never experienced that so can't say.

Ugly comes to mind.

Should have kept it would have made you rich

Birmingham racing I paid £18,500 for it. Top money for a low miler at the time. And it was a Monte Carlo. It came back up for sale a few years ago for £64,000 😩 A collector has it now.

PT82 wouldn't want to be you

What didn’t you like about it? Not stuff that could be somewhat easily improved by upgrades today?

Exactly. If anything the Focus RS is overrated (in Europe at least).

Arayig1982 Why on earth would you say that? What model have you driven or owned?

@@edthomas8486 because anything a Rustang done A Falcon did it before. The Falcon IS the most underrated Ford Performance Vehicle, because its Rustang sibling steals the limelight.

Sort of car you own when you wear a shell suit