Originally Posted by
flashbastd
old thread, but that is a facelift car, unusual to find one on a j plate. You can tell it is a facelift by the mirrors, assuming they are original, though i thought all facelifts had a drivers airbag, so could be wrong. In all probability it has had the recaro's swapped with a 1.8i xr2i.
Iirc rs1800's were pretty slow sellers. We had one with recaro's on a k plate, but that was an early rs1800 that sat around for a long time before being registered.
I thought the only rs1800's with wing backs should have a swirly material, rather than the fiesta turbo velour fitted to early ones and 1.8 xr2's
there are 3 different styles of wing back seats , fiesta si has a retangle pattern , xr2i had small dotted lines running down the centre of the seats , and the rs1800 has the swirly lines called raven , the recaros are in the early reg cars , i had a j reg 1.8 16v xr2i that had spotted wing backs fitted