RE: Shed of the Week: Ford Escort Encore
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WorstShedEver
I used to work for Ford when this came out. Wasn't a patch on the model that proceeded it. Penny pinching everywhere (apart from the radio & gearbox), and it showed.
I remember the first day of production. Should have made 1600 if I recall correctly. They made 9. I'll leave it there.
Even the Escort Cossie was really a Sierra wearing a new hat...
I used to work for Ford when this came out. Wasn't a patch on the model that proceeded it. Penny pinching everywhere (apart from the radio & gearbox), and it showed.
I remember the first day of production. Should have made 1600 if I recall correctly. They made 9. I'll leave it there.
Even the Escort Cossie was really a Sierra wearing a new hat...
I had an early 1997 one of these as my first car although it was an 'L' not Encore. No ABS, electric windows and those delightful black plastic bumpers. Did have a sunroof though!
Ticked over 100k in the time I had it but always needed some persuasion getting through the MOT (corrosion).
Got rid when having just driven from Manchester to Newcastle and back, a couple of days later the suspension failed while being test driven by a mechanic after a service..
Ticked over 100k in the time I had it but always needed some persuasion getting through the MOT (corrosion).
Got rid when having just driven from Manchester to Newcastle and back, a couple of days later the suspension failed while being test driven by a mechanic after a service..
I'm sensing there isn't a great deal of love for the humble Escort then 
I myself have a bit of a soft spot, as my dad had one new in '91/92 when I was a young lad and I have many fantastic memories of that car, we travelled up and down the country in it, sleeping in it watching every BTCC round from around '92 to '97, plus many other family holidays and adventures, so I can't say many bad things about them. I'm guessing I spent many hundreds of hours in it!
His was the 1.8 diesel, non-turbo, non PAS, so woefully slow, and handled like a tank, when I was learning to drive it was nearing the end of it's life so I only drove it a couple of times, only thing I can remember is thinking the steering lock must be on because the steering was so heavy! My old man is a big bloke from farming stock so I guess the heavy steering was pretty normal for him having spent his career driving agricultural vehicles and HGV's!
RIP J107 HCA you are still missed!
PS I still wouldn't buy one even for old times sake!
I myself have a bit of a soft spot, as my dad had one new in '91/92 when I was a young lad and I have many fantastic memories of that car, we travelled up and down the country in it, sleeping in it watching every BTCC round from around '92 to '97, plus many other family holidays and adventures, so I can't say many bad things about them. I'm guessing I spent many hundreds of hours in it!
His was the 1.8 diesel, non-turbo, non PAS, so woefully slow, and handled like a tank, when I was learning to drive it was nearing the end of it's life so I only drove it a couple of times, only thing I can remember is thinking the steering lock must be on because the steering was so heavy! My old man is a big bloke from farming stock so I guess the heavy steering was pretty normal for him having spent his career driving agricultural vehicles and HGV's!
RIP J107 HCA you are still missed!
PS I still wouldn't buy one even for old times sake!
I remember trading up from my first car (1.1 mk2 fiesta) to a 1.4LX mk5 escort... thought it was going to be notably faster... was disapointed. When my mum got a Mk5 1.6( Si i think), i was equally disappointed. that said, the 1600S and 1.6Si mk3 fiestas that followed were great fun, the way cars for young men should be!
RumbleOfThunder said:
Actually, screw you lot. It's a really clean example of a once popular car. Therefore it's getting into the realm of interesting. I'd deffo consider it if bangernomics was my thing. 
It is slow, looks crap, due to (among other things), excess doors, poorly dated styling and a bad colour, and is too expensive for what it is if you are in it for the bangernomics, 750 quid will get you an actually nice to drive, non dead-slow comfortable car.The fact that it looks to be in decent nick is its only redeeming virtue, but that's like putting a cherry on top of a pile of s
t, i'd still rather get a proper cake.I think this should be bought, cared for and kept in pristine condition then popped into a museum. All this so that, one day, when your son says 'Dad? I want to be a car designer!' you can then take him along to that museum, point at this and say 'Son, that's great, see that Escort there, that son, is how NOT to design a car.' 
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