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That looks lovely, though not sure I'd want the 2.0-litre bit personally. A friend of a friend had one and it's one of the scariest cars I've ever been in. It just felt like it was a bit too much for a little bean tin like that. Didn't help that he drove like an absolute nutcase either of course.

Saw some of her stuff on Top Gear. Switched it off almost immediately.There are better ways to look at boobs without having to listen to her drivel.

I always liked those Astras too. Needs a better plate and the badges removing from the bumper, but still a good looking car.

DeMuro has to be the most irritating man on the internet. His voice is infuriating. It's incredible watching a lot of these YouTubers though. As @dangerous dave says, they can turn two minutes of decent content into a 30-minute video. I stopped watching a lot of the stuff from the likes of Adam...

Beam is fine. Chassis leg above the spring seat will want attention sooner or later though. Not taking anything away from the car at all, but it wants a bit of a grind back to see how close it is to going through.

Great updates and still love this car. Sits lovely and the blue/white combo is brilliant. Think you need to have a look at that rear chassis rail though. Don't want that rust getting too bad.

How deep does it go? I know Ford have started multiple networks into their cars to stop people from accessing anything outside the stuff that has to be universal.

What happened?

I have a question for all the VAG experts out there. How similar is the diagnostic equipment across all the group brands? For example, if you buy a VW diagnostic unit (I'm talking pro workshop type stuff), would it work on Audi's and Seats? What about the likes of Porsche and Bentley? Or is it...

I can't say I know anyone that way. Might be worth trying a guy I follow on Instagram though, as he is quite involved in the car scene in the UAE. https://www.instagram.com/idriveatractor/

My mate did really well in targas in a bog standard 106 Quiksilver. Makes me laugh when people show up for them in fancy cars. My old Escort is used for targa rallies. Total overkill.

Looking forward to seeing how this comes together. In terms of modifying, I probably wouldn't do a lot until you've done an event or two. See what it's shortcomings are and go from there. I'm sure there will be some serious machinery doing road rallies on that side of the country.

The Senna has to be one of the ugliest cars ever made.

I think people eventually got the 1.6 CVH to well north of 300bhp. I seem to remember some claiming 350-odd, but they were serious, serious builds. Top speed record for a 1.6 RS Turbo got to just over 170mph I believe too. As someone said above, the problem with the Escort was always the...

Without doubt. I used to attend a lot of dealer training for Ford techs and they moaned endlessly about how s**t the cars were, but it's because they are exposed to the problems with them 40 hours a week. They don't notice the thousands of others that are driving about without issue. That being...

Great days. Think the FRST I drove was about 160bhp. A couple of friends had stage 1 Escorts and they were a riot. I went in Christian Major's S2, which was one of the ones regularly involved in the whole "thrash" thing run by Performance Ford mag. 160+mph in an RS Turbo was an eye opening...

Fiesta was the first RS I drove. Felt like a rocket at the time. Think it was about 2001 and it had the usual remap, exhaust etc. Both the Escort and Fiesta are definitely flawed, but they're an absolute riot I think.

That's lovely. If it's mine, I think I would have to fit the original amber indicators, but spot on otherwise. Needs a stage 1 fettle too. Wakes them up a lot as I recall.

It wasn't, but I think that was partly down to Ford cocking it up on a management front. Why they let RAS Sport run the cars in 1995 is quite beyond me. The Escort Cosworth won mountains of rallies in both Group N and Group A form, but the WRC team was a bit of a shambles sadly. Still is in a...

I imagine the chassis change was very deliberate, as they wanted to make something more nimble than the Sierra. I guess none of them would feel quick really, especially nowadays. I don't think I'd want any standard Cosworth though. For me, the fun in them was modifying, so it would at least need...

Why do you hate the Escort so much @frayz? :LOL:

Saw this while I was in the UK but forgot to post it. Can't be many of them left now. Love that it still had the factory WRC sticker in the rear window too:

It could very well go that way sadly. Hopefully we'll be enough of a minority that people won't bother to try and stop it, but who knows, as the car is such a massive part of our lives at the moment. Regardless of what happens, it's going to be an interesting time.

I hope you're right, but it feels like the worm is turning and that there is a growing amount of anti-ICE sentiment. It may not be necessary to ban them outright, but I think there are some noisy folk out there that would take a great deal of pleasure from achieving such an end.

I think that's the thing that scares me about EVs. I don't care if my daily becomes EV, but I still want to be able to enjoy old ICE-powered cars. I worry that it won't be realistic though. People wheel out the, "but people didn't stop riding horses when the car came along" line, but the...

I like it. Nice balance of aggression, without being really over the top.

Hahaha, love the fact you signed up and dealt with the comments. Much respect. Your content isn't my thing, but it's obviously working, as you have about a bazillion followers and I have hardly any 😂

I didn't think £12k was too bad. The problem with the one in the UAE was the shipping.

Obviously :LOL: I saw one for £12k recently, but it was in the UAE, so was curious about whether it was sensible money or not.

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