RE: Shed Of The Week: Ford Scorpio 24v
Discussion
daytona365 said:
What a wonderful and relatively easily fitted engine to put in a TVRs.
Is it that wonderful, a good upgrade for the older, wheezier 12v variants but if you are going to all that hassle, BMW V8's are plentiful as are Lexus V8's, if it has to be a six the one from a 350Z has 300 bhp and is a similar size and weight.I think its the "easily fitted" bit most do it for but the later ones of these werent quite as simple as the earlier ones, cant remember why.
I love these, magnificent cars from a bygone age when there was more to an 'executive' car than a white paint, a strained 4 cylinder diesel engine and the lowest monthly payment. That front end doesn't look half as bad as it did when reviewed in context of some utterly dreadful modern designs.
Baryonyx said:
I love these, magnificent cars from a bygone age when there was more to an 'executive' car than a white paint, a strained 4 cylinder diesel engine and the lowest monthly payment. That front end doesn't look half as bad as it did when reviewed in context of some utterly dreadful modern designs.
Oh come on, the white diesel German lease machine with DRL's replaced the reps Sierra, Cavalier or Montego, not the bosses barge, plus there are still decent equivalents around, look at the current Mondeo, plus the german stuff doesnt have to come with 20 inch wheels and S line suspension delete, chap at work has a 200 bhp petrol A4 in SE flavour and it is a very nice car.I would probably take the white A4 that looks like a stormtroopers helmet over this abomination and I am generally the champion of the underdog sheds, this just offends my eyes.
A friend always said the estate was better than the saloon as they only messed up one end with those ghastly lights! Seriously tacky car! The bumpers were made by Marley, the floor tile and gutter people. They are super light expanded yellow foam inside with a thin "skin" of paintable thermo-form plastic, just "touch" them on anything stationary (like long grass) and they explode, needing complete replacement and paint (or more typically a roll of gaffer tape). Awful shoddy piece of kit, built by mercyless accountants to a design smitten to death by the ugly stick... Not really a fan...
Compared to the Vauxhall/Opel non-premium executive cars, these Scorpio/Granadas always felt like a scaled up sierra whereas the aforementioned Rekord/Berlina/Carlton/Senator/Omega cars were genuinely engineered and built better than the models below them i.e MK1/2/3 Cavalier, time period for time period.
It went a bit wrong in my mind when they introduced the Sierra, they didn't then up their game with the Granada, hence the scaled up feeling of the Granada.
Initially when the Granada/Consul came out in the early 70's it was better demonstrably than the live axled Cortina below it thus giving it a premium feel over the lesser cars.
To be honest,even a 3.0 Elite Omega estate would make this car look a joke.
May be an exception would be when the Mk1 Carlton overlapped the MK2 Cavalier for a couple of years in the early 80s - The smaller Mk2 Cavalier was a better car for a bit until the streamlined Mk2 Carlton came along.
It went a bit wrong in my mind when they introduced the Sierra, they didn't then up their game with the Granada, hence the scaled up feeling of the Granada.
Initially when the Granada/Consul came out in the early 70's it was better demonstrably than the live axled Cortina below it thus giving it a premium feel over the lesser cars.
To be honest,even a 3.0 Elite Omega estate would make this car look a joke.
Edited by BL Fanboy on Friday 1st May 12:06
May be an exception would be when the Mk1 Carlton overlapped the MK2 Cavalier for a couple of years in the early 80s - The smaller Mk2 Cavalier was a better car for a bit until the streamlined Mk2 Carlton came along.
Edited by BL Fanboy on Friday 1st May 12:14
The bloke that lived next door to us back in the day had one of these as a company car. The Mk1 Scorpio looked great in its day, I always thought, and the arrival of this monstrosity on next door's drive was an unpleasant shock. Having said all that, while it was aesthetically challenging, I remember thinking it was quite an impressive car, especially the interior looked for its day very plush. It can't be all bad with a nice V6 in the front, overall I'd say this is a car that's better than it's reputation and looks suggest.
An interesting shed, something a bit different, but in this case the looks really do influence my overall judgement.
An interesting shed, something a bit different, but in this case the looks really do influence my overall judgement.
My neighbour has one of these, bought nearly new. His is a black saloon on an R plate in pretty close to immaculate condition (no signs of rust anywhere). I suspect it has does less than half the mileage of this one and everything works.
He is well aware that its worthless but it purrs around so well, like a poor man's Jag (providing you're sat in it!) that I don't think he will ever part with it. He was slightly tempted by my 2002 XJ8, but even the modest increase in cost was not enough to tempt him...
He is well aware that its worthless but it purrs around so well, like a poor man's Jag (providing you're sat in it!) that I don't think he will ever part with it. He was slightly tempted by my 2002 XJ8, but even the modest increase in cost was not enough to tempt him...
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