RE: All-new Mk2 Ford Escort in development

RE: All-new Mk2 Ford Escort in development

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blade7

11,311 posts

215 months

Saturday 15th June 2019
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J4CKO said:
I am getting less bothered about that, a Tesla accelerates faster than anything else pretty much and is amazing but I dont want one, I am, like most of us, like the Escort, a product of the era and we tend to think we want massive performance and end up on the outside looking back in with 500 odd bhp, 150 to 250 bhp, light weight, nice gearchange, direct steering and a fair old racket.

Ps, know you have a 944 so doesn't necessarily apply.
Mainly why ^^^^ I haven't replaced the 944 with something like a 996tt or a tuned TT-RS. Plus not much silencing, and running richer at the bottom end it pops and bangs like a TVR on the over run biggrin.

firebird350

322 posts

179 months

Saturday 15th June 2019
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cookie1600 said:
Escort Mk2 coupe? Here's one we made earlier:

Roger Clark/Jim Porter - 1976 Mintex Rally?!

Ilovejapcrap

3,274 posts

111 months

Saturday 15th June 2019
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Butter Face said:
My mates got a Mk2 3 door estate, ST170 engine on throttle bodies in it cloud9

It’s been 5 years building so far but it’s getting closer and closer to being finished


Us can you encourage him to start a thread on it

Butter Face

30,191 posts

159 months

Saturday 15th June 2019
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Ilovejapcrap said:
Butter Face said:
My mates got a Mk2 3 door estate, ST170 engine on throttle bodies in it cloud9

It’s been 5 years building so far but it’s getting closer and closer to being finished


Us can you encourage him to start a thread on it
He doesn’t really do forums but I’ll ask him if he is happy for me to do some more posts on it.

MartinGLeeds

123 posts

137 months

Thursday 20th June 2019
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Blackpuddin said:
grumpy52 said:
Cooking in old parlance was the warmed up version of a car.
It really wasn't, honestly. It's the basic or ordinary version.
You've nailed it there. That's exactly what it stood for. A warmed up version of what would normally be a dull, basic, steady family car.

A once read a magazine review and it described the Siera 2.0is as the 'cooking version" of the boggo Siera.


House point to you Sir.

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Thursday 20th June 2019
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I think we have established.
- a) It has at times been used as a description for both standard and warmed models.
- b) It is an absolutely ridiculous and meaningless description best avoided.


Daniel

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 21st June 2019
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MartinGLeeds said:
Blackpuddin said:
grumpy52 said:
Cooking in old parlance was the warmed up version of a car.
It really wasn't, honestly. It's the basic or ordinary version.
You've nailed it there. That's exactly what it stood for. A warmed up version of what would normally be a dull, basic, steady family car.

A once read a magazine review and it described the Siera 2.0is as the 'cooking version" of the boggo Siera.


House point to you Sir.
You're wrong.

'Cooking' edition is the same as 'cooking' sherry or 'cooking' chocolate, it's the most basic variant available.

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Friday 21st June 2019
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dhutch said:
I think we have established.
- a) It has at times been used as a description for both standard and warmed models.
- b) It is an absolutely ridiculous and meaningless description best avoided.
Mmmmm

TheLuke

2,218 posts

140 months

Friday 21st June 2019
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This whole debate has gone "cooking"


Take that to mean what you want it to.

Superleg48

1,524 posts

132 months

Friday 21st June 2019
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TheLuke said:
This whole debate has gone "cooking"


Take that to mean what you want it to.
All this debate about what “cooking” means and all I can think of is this:


Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Saturday 22nd June 2019
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A mate of a mate of mine has a Viva HB which has to be a "cooking" model, except his has a red-top with throttle bodies!



Gary C

12,312 posts

178 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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bloomen said:
leakymanifold said:
Honest question: Can someone explain to me why an ancient ford chassis is so desirable?
Handling. It's just about the best balanced car ever. Obviously most of that is down to third party development.
Oh come on !

a standard basic Mk2 handles like a piece of crap ! The leaf springs give so much axle movement its amazing you get round a corner !

Never managed to really crash mine, but I would never call it the 'best balanced car ever'

However, a nice rally version with a grp4 rear axle properly located is a great fun driving machine.

Edit

Ooh, just read your post properly wink

Kubevoid

192 posts

55 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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I think it looks incredibly cool. I love simplistic retro cars.

This may be wrong, but I'd love one with a new Ford Coyote V8. Blame my youth reading Street Machine magazine and hearing my Dad's tales about the Perana Capri etc. However those looks, with V8 sounds, a stripped out interior... would be incredible.


Brads67

3,199 posts

97 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Had a few in my youth. They were crap unless you threw fortunes at them.

See them at classic cars nowadays and they are still pretty crap looking next to most classic cars.

Subjective I know, but hey ho.

Hol

8,356 posts

199 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Gary C said:
bloomen said:
leakymanifold said:
Honest question: Can someone explain to me why an ancient ford chassis is so desirable?
Handling. It's just about the best balanced car ever. Obviously most of that is down to third party development.
Oh come on !

a standard basic Mk2 handles like a piece of crap ! The leaf springs give so much axle movement its amazing you get round a corner !

Never managed to really crash mine, but I would never call it the 'best balanced car ever'

However, a nice rally version with a grp4 rear axle properly located is a great fun driving machine.

Edit

Ooh, just read your post properly wink
Best rear steering cars I have owned. I had a lot of fun throwing all of mine around back when 140Bhp was powerful.

I learnt to weld after buying my first one.


And... I’m thinking of getting a Mk1 Bubble arched one.





blade7

11,311 posts

215 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Hol said:



And... I’m thinking of getting a Mk1 Bubble arched one.
I had one of those. Metal arches, well three of them were. It was originally a Mex, but someone had fitted a 2.0 Pinto. And painted a good reproduction of the decals on the sides.

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Hol said:
Best rear steering cars I have owned. I had a lot of fun throwing all of mine around back when 140Bhp was powerful.

I learnt to weld after buying my first one.


And... I’m thinking of getting a Mk1 Bubble arched one.
thumbup

A friend bought a decent Mk2 RS over the winter and has been using it a lot lately at weekends

Had a few back years ago but I’d forgotten how much fun they are - every road is so much wider too

SilverHarrier

217 posts

163 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Just noticed this thread again, love this video, meant to post it a while back..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBOKD6fGu0

Always loved an Escort, would really like a Mk1 one day.

GVK

805 posts

241 months

Saturday 20th February 2021
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGko6uK-Fik

Jonny SmIth tries out the MST mk2

That gearbox? resonance would get on my tits though!

Pit Pony

8,265 posts

120 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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Superleg48 said:
Julian Thompson said:
Sunbeam gets under your skin like almost no other car. It’s a crazy, crap, but brilliant thing with contrasts and contradictions everywhere. The most rubbish car ever made and also one of the best balanced, most feelsome chassis with (in lotus form) a cracker of an engine. An absolute enigma and I can’t understand why after 1981 they are still available to buy for £2.50 when escorts etc went crazy. It doesn’t make sense!
Think you’ll find that sorted Lotus Sunbeams are £30k and up.
I remember a house aroundvthe corner from my parents, in Solihull, where there was an immaculate black Lotus Sunbeam. Then one day it's sitting in the garden with a massive frontal smash. Then a brown base model arrives, is put on 4 axle stands and stripped to a bear shell. Shell goes away. Comes back black, with lotus stripes. Bits swapped.
Lotus shell taken away. Registration number swapped.
I assume, that they would swap any chassis identification. Prices were about £3k for a lotus and £400 for a base model in brown. I reckon it was about 1992 or 3.