I mistakenly brought a 94 shedscort as a daily driver, after my Peugeot crash, as a way of saving money to sort my RSi (my other rusty toy lol). And what a rot box, on the top it looks fine, it fairly spotless, underneath though, it needs welding on both rear box sections at the rear for holes which are about (i kid you not!) two inches wide by about 3/4 inches long and on the passenger side the jacking strip practically all fell off along the whole length of the car. Obviously its not going to have been looked after like a Cossie of the same generation, but it will have been built by the same people to the same specification body protection wise........

I'm never buying another Ford as a 'cheap' lol, daily driver, because they rot like nothing else. Ironically the industrial underseal from a shop to do a whole car throughly only costs £20 (the cans which go on a air gun), so what Ford were playing at I dont know.....

My 92? (K Plate) 205 Gti on the other hand was absolutely fine rot wise, i.e. not a sausage, because the French thought to build them with metal galvanised......My mates Polo as well, K plate, again absolutely fine rot wise.....I can see a pattern here! lol


So after that big rant, the moral is with any Escort (or Ford actually) you go to look at, take a jack with you . I'd like to think the Escort Cossie would be a million miles better, but it's a Ford so I doubt it....

Great cars, but check thoroughly.

So do modern Fords rot like 80s/90s ones, i.e. I haven't seen a rusty Focus yet? I hope not because I want a Fiesta ST as a dailey driver in a few years!