RE: SOTW: 1988 Ford Granada Ghia 2.9 V6

[300bhp/ton]

OllieC said:

I havent owned a Scorpio, but the same engine in my Capri driven like a hooligan pretty much the whole time never went below 20 no matter what, it was around 28 -30 on a long run.]

Yes the capri is lighter (but brick shaped) and doesnt have a slushbox, but I cant believe the Grandads were *that* bad on petrol ?

Maybe you just didn't drive it hard enough. I had a 1.6 Orion Ghia, it was fairly easy to get a sustained average of 26mpg from it. So a bigger heavier car with an auto I can well believe it.

Not saying 20mpg should be the norm, but I've driven enough cars to well believe from an old bus like that. I'd also say if you are getting 28-30mpg on a run, then I can't see you getting anywhere near that hooning or heavy town work.

[OllieC]

300bhp/ton said:

OllieC said:

I havent owned a Scorpio, but the same engine in my Capri driven like a hooligan pretty much the whole time never went below 20 no matter what, it was around 28 -30 on a long run.]

Yes the capri is lighter (but brick shaped) and doesnt have a slushbox, but I cant believe the Grandads were *that* bad on petrol ?

Maybe you just didn't drive it hard enough. I had a 1.6 Orion Ghia, it was fairly easy to get a sustained average of 26mpg from it. So a bigger heavier car with an auto I can well believe it.

Not saying 20mpg should be the norm, but I've driven enough cars to well believe from an old bus like that. I'd also say if you are getting 28-30mpg on a run, then I can't see you getting anywhere near that hooning or heavy town work.

I didnt explain that quite right, I'd get 28-30 if i was on a long run on the motorway or the like, making steady progress as opposed to B road driving etc.

I thought I was driving the car pretty hard, but I didn't brake anything significant mechanically, so I guess I cant have been trying hard enough

[futureclassics]

A dirty old car only really suitable for dirty old men in raincoats or the unlicensed minicab trade. Truly horrid. Surely worth less as an assembled car than in bits for spares. Refuelling must double the market value, or actually just buying a tin of travel sweets for the glove box would do it.

[Steameh]

Always thought Granada's looked suitably mean and purposeful.

I wonder how difficult an LS Engine conversion would be....

[CDP]

futureclassics said:

A dirty old car only really suitable for dirty old men in raincoats or the unlicensed minicab trade.

I know some people take the image of a car seriously (which is normally pretty foolish) but I'm not sure how you jump quite that far...

[grahamw48]

Steameh said:

Always thought Granada's looked suitably mean and purposeful.

I wonder how difficult an LS Engine conversion would be....

Well, if you can put a Koeniggsegg twin turbo in a MK2 Granada:

.

[Smike]

OllieC said:

300bhp/ton said:

OllieC said:

LuS1fer said:

AdeV said:

As for this 16mpg thing - that was posted by some fool who obviously just hates Fords, or who had an extremely broken one.

Yes, that's why I own two Fords. The 16mpg I posted in my father's 2.8 Scorpio could be coaxed up to 19 but this was round and about, not cruising. My 5.7 V8 Chevy LS1 did 20 round town.

There was definitely something wrong with it on that basis

Why?

I havent owned a Scorpio, but the same engine in my Capri driven like a hooligan pretty much the whole time never went below 20 no matter what, it was around 28 -30 on a long run.]

Yes the capri is lighter (but brick shaped) and doesnt have a slushbox, but I cant believe the Grandads were *that* bad on petrol ?

I had the 2.8 Cologne in a rwd Sierra and it was pretty easy to get 30+ on a run. Driven hard it would do high teens/20.
One of the car mags ran a long-termer and managed a best of 35mpg but an overall average of 26mpg.
4x4 and a slushbox on that engine will really hammer the consumption

[Jamieprice01]

Does anyone know what happpened to this car.it was mine and my stepdads old car

[Jamieprice01]

Does anyone know what happpened to this car.it was mine and my stepdads old car

[j44esd]

Jamieprice01 said:

Does anyone know what happpened to this car.it was mine and my stepdads old car

Impressive thread revival!

Sadly, it seems that the MOT it was sold with in this advert was the last it ever had...so I'd assume scrapped in March 2012