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...
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.
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.