Thursday 16th November 2017

£100K Escort RS2000!

And you thought the fast Ford silliness had subsided...

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It's not often that auction results raise an eyebrow nowadays, leave alone elicit expletives from all who see them. But then that was before the £100,000 Ford Escort...

Escort Cossie? £90K...

Yes, Silverstone Auctions sold a Mk2 Escort RS2000 for £97,875 at its Classic Motor Show sale. It looks like perhaps the best Escort RS2000 in the world, having recorded just 927 miles since 1980, but that really does sound incredible.

That's just the start, not only for Escorts, but for fast Fords in general. This Series 1 RS Turbo went for £44,438, a Cosworth made £91K (!) and the hammer fell at £22,500 for a 1989 XR3i cab. Blimey.

On its way to £50,000!

Want more? Course you do. How does £43,875 for a Mk2 Focus RS sound? With a few more pounds in your pocket - alright, £47,250 to be precise - this Capri Brooklands would have been in reach. And for the real connoisseurs, a 6,000-mile RS500 sold for £112,500. That's just crazy, isn't it?

We could go on, but you get the point: certain cars are still very much in demand at auction houses around the world. And while we could point you to Chris Hoy's Ferrari 458, a TVR Tina prototype or a Lamborghini Diablo SE30, this really is all about the Fords. Wait until you get to the XR2...

See the full lot list here.

[anonymous-user]

£22k for an XR3 cabrio... what a joke. At least a charity is benefitting.

[anonymous-user]

These prices are at the top of the tree.

The issue is if you purchase any classic for these figures and the bottom falls out of the market they you could be in a lot of trouble.

Perhaps I am totally wrong but I can't see this trend continuing without a crash "excuse the pun"

[anonymous-user]

Plinth said:

DrSteveBrule said:

£22k for an XR3 cabrio... what a joke. At least a charity is benefitting.

The Escort Cabrio had a list price of £12,337 back in 1989.
Allowing for inflation, that is equivalent now to £30,350.
Beautifully restored (5 grand on body prep and paint, so we are told) and all proceeds for charity – I don’t think that was expensive at £22,500.
The other Cabrio (one owner, 11,000 miles) made £16,000 – effectively just over half its new price.
Seems pretty cheap to me.

Yay for charidee and all that but it's still a well polished turd of a car from the malaise period of Escorts. Hateful things.

I mentioned these prices to my colleague at work earlier, he laughed and said wrote off his mum's RS Turbo when he was a heavy-footed 19 year old caning around on his parent's insurance. He's not going to tell her what they're worth now.