HELLO, AM GOING TO BUY A STANDARD ESCORT COSWOTH SOON, BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH COLOUR TO GO FOR. DON'T WANT TO PUT THE MONEY INTO ONE WHICH MAY NOT BE A FAVOURABLE COLOUR... PLEASE HELP...


P.S- WHITE IS THE COLOUR I'M THINKING OF BUYING....

 

Doesnt matter what you get mate, they arent valued off colour.
Some say that imperial blue is a more favourable colour and adds value, but I think thats bollox to be honest.

 

Buy the colour you want mate otherwise you'll never be happy with it.

 

aggree
buy the colour you want.why would you do otherwise?dont believe that a particular colour will raise the value of the car.may be if the colour is a non standard colour..then it would certainly lower the value of the car..at least thats my view
go for the white one as you said mate..they are smooth as fook in diamond white,

 

anything but malaria-green

 

Mallard is a nice colour but it should have ben called blue.
I hate green cars but i like mallard....

 

I HAVE A MALLARD GREEN ONE.
HERE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 6 TO PICK FROM. YOU NEVER SEE THEM FOR SALE, BUT WHEN THEY DO COME UP THE COLOUR IS OF NO IMPORTANCE. BUT IF I WAS ABLE TO PICK A COLOUR IT WOULD BE A RED ONE, COZ EVERYONE KNOWS RED ONES ARE FASTER.
THE SIX THAT I KNOW ARE:
1 RED ONE
2 WHITE ONES
2 MALLARD GREENS, ONE OF WHICH IS MINE
AND 1 BLACK ONE

 

Just look for the best car you can afford whatever the colour..............all escort cossies look great in any colour imo

 

pacifica is a nice colour, so many variations in the colour in different lights.

also depends on wether you want a small or large turbo as a lot of the colours are specific to the turbo size car ie: auralis so it would have to be a ST model or pacifica would have to be a LT model

 

i agree with this comment.... i originally wanted a white one but ended up with a mallard one as that was the finest example available at the time within my price range....


i'd much rather have a better condition car than simply go for colour , as all escos colours look amazing anyway!!!

 

Better to rule out the colours you DONT want rather than limit yourself to one or two colours. Just dont make do with an inferior car just because its your first choice colour.

The only colours i didnt want was mallard or imperial. Its much easier to do it this way and rule out the ones you wouldnt be happy with.

By the way, auralis is by far the best colour to go for!!!!

 

red ones are faster................You heard it here first haha

 

Gloss black are the ones to have... red may be faster but black are more reliable

 

DON'T buy a black 1 if you you're not into cleaning it every time you go anywhere

 

For me it had to be Imperial Blue but then it took me ages to find the right car for me!



I'm very happy with the one I got in the end though!

 

just like the other said, its more down to personal choice.

everyone onhere will prob say that the colour they own is the best.

of course Pacifica is by far the best.... just kidding. personally thats what i think, but every colour in an escort colour is quality cos i think they are a quality car...

Jewel Violet and Polaris Grey i would say are the rarest car.
and if i was to have another es cos it would be polaris, for the rariety.

Good luck in your search.

 

Well said
although i do love silver moondust.

 

difficult this is. i normally say dont buy any cossie thinking "i want that colour"i would normally say go for the best car out there for the cash but when i get one i will only have two colours and will wait for them.favourite is polaris grey,followed so very very closely by gloss black

but white is the motorsport colour and still ticks the right box for me.so if thats what you want why not go for it.
it makes fook all difference to price,condition does!

good luck mate

 

I think you hardly ever see silver cossies?
Was silver an original colour?

 

Think what escos you want small or large turbo, then rule out the colour,s you don,t want. Then go buy the best you can get for your money. Thats what i did and i,m well pleased with what i got.

 

Yes but it's very, very rare.

I think there's only two silver Escort Cosworths on here.

 

Good point! Your car always looks filthy!

 

 

an escos does look good in white, gives it that motorsport touch

i think auralis blue is probably the nicest colour, but it depends on the overall look of the car (ie, headlamps, wheels etc...)

 

I knew silver was rare!

 

If i had to choose it would be Polaris

White looks stunning when its clean

 

including mine i know of 6 genuine silver escort cosworths & 1 of them is written off!!

 

That is rare!

 

I wonder why when the original purchasers were spec'ing their car not more chose the silver? I think it looks mint in silver!

 

rumor is that Ford had a problem with the paint on the silver escos, the paint was reacting when the laquer was applied, therefore only a few shells were salvaged & the rest were painted white.

 

Regards colours of escort cosworths, i am led to understand that
the cars were hand built at Karmann,and the production line was not
like other ford production lines,i also remember from years ago
someone who bought a new escort cosworth from the rsoc rejected
it as the paint was iffy from new,so he looked at the dealers other new
ones and found the paint was not as good as it should have been.
was a German geezer just wafting the paint on by hand in the factory
or was it robots, i dunno

i think quality of paint is far more important than just a nice colour

 

Not sure about Escort Cosworth's but I'm pretty sure that the Focus RS is worth more in Imperial Blue!

 

As Dave says dark coloured cars are a bstard to keep clean

I own an Aubergine one, and its stunning when clean and the sun hits it, but Im always cleanung the damn thing, drives me crazy

starting to get a compulsive disorder, even cleaned my track car yesterday

 

MONSTER

 

YES GUZZLER M69FUG my old car sold it not knowing how rare thay was next i knew it was dead

 

If the motorsport image is what you want then pure white is not the correct choice.

What you need is cream/old English White, the colour the works team used on their cars.

 

that might be my old one guzzler it got writern off after i sold it

 

this is my other old one


and my currant one

 

 

Hi everyone, This is my first post here, I just wanted some help deciding about the paint on my escort cosworth. Its currently all in primer, it was a bit of a mess when i got it, but its getting there now. The original colour is Polaris Grey. I like the colour, but my girlfriend doesnt, she thinks i should get it painted mallard. I would really appreciate any comments (good or bad) before i choose the colour.. Basically looking for A) Your personal choice. & B) The reasons why. - It would be a big help. Thanks in advance for any replies. Jay.