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We had these in work for service & MOT today from the same guy, he's thinning out his collection and wanted them sorted to sell. The XR2 has 19k on it & the Saph has 13k, he also brought an Escort Cosworth too but I didn't get a pic of that.
Probably a Banham RS200, Maestro based but the bodywork was made in the actual RS200 moulds they bought from Ford after they stopped production.
https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/austin/maestro/maestro-based-banham-200/
I saw a mk2 Astra GTE estate today at the Asda, were they a factory thing or was it homemade? It had a fruity sounding exhaust and looked pretty good tbh.
I quite like the look of them (I've got one at the moment 😬), the front end is the weakest part of it though. I love everything from the A pillar back , I think it looks great from the rear 3/4 view like the pic I put above.
They've just got this in at work, same running gear as the Fiesta ST I think so it should go alright. It does look a bit like a frog in that colour though...
They were huge cars in their day but it's almost exactly the same length as a current shape Mondeo (5mm longer) and 100mm narrower than the Mondeo. Just shows how much cars have grown over the last 30 years.
How do you say Renault? Rennow or Rennolt? I'm not having a go, I just think it's funny how certain things we say as they would in the native language and others we don't.
After a quick Googs it seems that the Japanese pronounce the z more like an s, so it would be Impressa or given how they pronounce gaijin letters it's Inpuressa.