RE: Shed of the Week: Ford Escort Encore
Discussion
Hmm. I understand the need to explore the definition of "shed", but while this is cheap and would probably make it home, there is simply nothing interesting about this car except as a marker of what very ordinary cars could be like. I don't reckon even my 83-year-old Mum would like it.
What I've never understood, is back in the day, the seventies and eighties, and into the nineties, very often the absolutely worst car in its class was a Ford, and yet invariably it was the very best seller in its class too. The MK3 onwards Escort is a prime example of this paradox. Over the last 25 years or so, as Fords have got better and better, so their market share has declined and declined.
Around late 2000 early 2001 a mate had a 3/4 year old Escort Encore in navy blue. Poverty spec and he drove it like a bell end. One night showing off attempting j flicks he misjudged one and managed to back it at a fair speed into the corner of a brick wall. Many,many weeks later he had the car back from repair and to celebrate he came hooning down the road past me and my mates, it was a very damp evening and as he disappeared from site around a bend we just heard the screeching of cheap skinny tyres and a bang. We ran towards the carnage and as we got near the escort appeared heading back up the road towards us. He'd swapped ends and gone backwards into a lampost. He cable tied the bootlid down and put cardboard over the shattered rear window and drove it like that for a few months until he had money to get another shoddy repair. Can't recall what happened to it in the end.
t of the Week.Balmoral said:
What I've never understood, is back in the day, the seventies and eighties, and into the nineties, very often the absolutely worst car in its class was a Ford, and yet invariably it was the very best seller in its class too. The MK3 onwards Escort is a prime example of this paradox. Over the last 25 years or so, as Fords have got better and better, so their market share has declined and declined.
It was partly down to the massive brown envelopes that company fleet managers used to have magically turning up on their desks. This one cost me £200 - all original Ford parts (mats, wipers, service history etc) - it even had colour-coded wing mirrors until someone decided to kick them both off one night. It was awful but awesome at the same time - great for practising "detailing" on, came up a treat.
I swapped it for a diesel 106 that I hated and sold on within a couple of days, should have kept the Escort if people are willing to pay this sort of cash for an Encore.
I swapped it for a diesel 106 that I hated and sold on within a couple of days, should have kept the Escort if people are willing to pay this sort of cash for an Encore.
DrSteveBrule said:
It's slightly overpriced by about £725.
What a waste of pixels having this as SOTW. Even the write up is as forgetable as the car in question.
Aye, these are usually much more entertaining reads even if the cars themselves are rubbish. (The Metro he did a few months ago was a particular highlight.)What a waste of pixels having this as SOTW. Even the write up is as forgetable as the car in question.
I had one of these and the 1.3 was painfully slow. Bought it in the dark, and failed to notice that someone had shunted it in the rear and therefore the bumper was nearly flush with the boot. I was 18 at the time so im excusing myself.
Hateful car that i think we scrapped in the end.
Hateful car that i think we scrapped in the end.
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