Evo will be more reliable and have less problems, but as said, the escort is more easy and cheaply repaired and is really down to how much power is being squeezed out and how!
Personally to me it would be more about which gives the biggest buzz to own and ability to turn heads due to its rarerty, cossy all the way
Something about a decent escos that makes you stop and stare in the street, something that an Evo, for me anyway, doesn't have the same effect, becoming to common.