Tuesday 1st April 2003

Escort Reborn!

UK gets its own Living Legend to commemorate Ford's Centenary

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[snowy1101]

this sounds like an april fool to me. still i'll still be phoning at 1pm to put my order in.

[.Mark]

nice one Ted.

Edited because i can't even spell 3 short words correctly

>> Edited by .Mark on Tuesday 1st April 08:33

[alfa dave]

The only thing that really didn't ring true was displaying something (anything) in Dagenham for a year....

[Bodo]

Nice one, Ted

Pierre Palmade and Helge Schneider have the best reputation in their sector

[Qualia]

... I was halfway through the article before it dawned on me...

[david_h]

Sorry but this is total April Fools.

You don't fool me.

[Fatboy]

nice one Ted

[jvaughan]

You had me fooled right to the point it said ...

"We even loosened up the steering rack and used pre-stressed bushes to give a loose feel like the original cars."

[jamesc]

Nice one Ted, but aren't you waiting for the reproduction TR7!

see this link

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=23&h=0&t=33824

James

[Mark Benson]

LOL - nice one Ted, you had me right up to the steering rack bit....

[craigw]

almost got me Ted, nice one

[robp]

Would have fallen for it, had it not been April Fools day!

[david010167]

[sabre]

Brilliant 1st won I have been caught with..this year. I was busy working out if it was worth doing the order and 'selling' the deposit later!!!
The numbered knob,plates and cap woke me up!

[danger mouse]

Argh! Too inocent by half.....$4!t!
:damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn:

Nice idea though, maybe someone at Ford will read this and run with the idea...

...what about "Bodie and Doyle" style matching Crapis instead?


Mouse.

ps. I have to say that the bit about a german getting emotional was far fishier than the loose rack which is something Ford have specialised in since the year dot.

pps. I don't believe half of you twigged til you read the thread: ya liars!

ppps. Nice one Ted.

>> Edited by danger mouse on Tuesday 1st April 13:03

[levensnevel]

How original
In our country the biggest auto bi-weekly made public that the Opel Manta would return.
www.autoweek.nl/newsdisp.php?cache=no&ID=1501
So you think we are noobs

levensnevel

a smile every mile

>> Edited by levensnevel on Tuesday 1st April 13:06

[pdv6]

danger mouse said: I don't believe half of you twigged til you read the thread: ya liars!

I had my doubts at the reduced power and made my mind up when I hit the steering rack!
Nice one, though!

[atg]

pies LMFAO

[law_kenuk]

I am a day late but never mind....

Having attended a talk at the design musuem by J Mays I was very prepared to believe this story until I got to the part about the loosened steeering rack.

I must say nice as it is to be able to buy a GT40 (replica) I am not impressed by the man whose CV reads
reborn Beetle, reborn Thunderbird, reborn GT40, reborn Mustang.

Perhaps you just beat him to it this time.....


Liam

[mybrainhurts]

What a bunch of cynical doubters.

When a great motor manufacturer goes out on a limb to reject bloody gizmos and get back to basics, all you can do is sneer. Can't you see this might be the dawn of something great?

Castrol R, anti-tramp bars, rumbling bearings. God, you lot don't know what real life is.

Suppose you're all going to tell me TVR's are real cars next.