just wondering how peeps have payed for them? wot i mean is , do u just earn alot? or get a loan? or save up for ages, cause it seems that to get a decent on u need to spend about £10,000.....

 

switch recipt from warranders pinned in the history folder

 

Missus paid cash 4 mine as a present i did get to choose the car tho, plus i gave her the insurance pay out when it arrived from when my saph got pinched. it was a bit more than 10k tho its only just clocked 32k last nyt

 

bloody hell thats a good mileage glenn!

hard earned cash im afraid for mine!! took a bankers drafty with me for 10k then 5k cash so i could bargain! got it for £14,250 in the end!!

 

mine was 15,000 it had 29k when i brought it bk in march and was totally std in heinsight maybe i should of brought a modified 1 but i wanted a white 1 and thats what i got.

 

i saved for years for mine, paid for it in cash almost 2 years ago

 

how long have you had yours m8?

 

Saved for ages and then wrote my 4x4 saff off and the insurance pay out topped up the cash to £16500 (thank god for protected no claims) which paid for mine with 32k on the clock, roughly 380bhp, in it's current trim, (apart from the speedlines and AP brakes which i've just had done this year) with all the original bits in boxes and insurance!!!!

I've just took it over 64k

 

Bought my Escort 2 nights ago for £17,150 cash (P reg, 28k, 18's, big brakes)

Cam

 

mine was 17k 5 years ago payed cash for it, but have spent about 20k on it over the years, i must be MAD

 

since april last year (2003)

if anyone remembers it, it was the one that had a badly leaking oily messy headgesket

 

I was 21, and I always wanted a cossie, got my first full time job after finishing uni and i went straight to the bank and took out a 9k loan.

 

so your the one that bought it only joking was working and couldnt get up to see it and when i did he said it had already gone

 

Sounds like it was a good job you didn't!!!




(sorry Dave!)

 

i sold my 3 door, then sold the wife's landrover and bought my escos 3 months ago. bought kath an astra to run round in, she still aint happy. she loved her freelander.

 

bloody hell! no wonder she isn't happy!!!

get her a fiesta/escort turbo!!

or another escort/sierra cossie!!

astra!!!!

you know how to treat a woman!

 

looked at a fiesta turbo. bought the astra because it blends into the background so to speak, just park it up and forget about it

 

took the escort out a few sundays ago, left it in petworld carpark for 10 mins, came out and some little twat nicked 3 of my dust caps

 

I bet the one little twat that had the dust caps was replaced by fifteen little twats giving you a spec quiz!!!

 

well however much money u guys have spent on them, or for them, i imagine its worth every penny...........
i want

 

def worth every penny but also very stressfull cant park them anywhere for fear of theft or damage etc and then there the biggest pile of rubbish when they break until there fixed or is that just me

 

yea i imagine there a bit pricey to fix an that..........!

 

Nah your definately right there mate!

 

paid cash as I always do, it is the way to go when buying and selling cars, dont trust drafts these days

 

Absolutely spot on correct.

 

On my credit card
and cash 4x4
two saffs were cash to

 

Been saving for just under a year and as soon as i sell the erst ill have 15k(and an empty garage) to go buy an imperial blue escort cosworth.

Anyone want to sell me theres??

 

no!!!!

lol
steve

 

Your damm right there m8
i borrowed 10k for mine and had 3k cash
will be all mine in 16 months

 

The parking bit is the biggest nightmare, had four drunken loons leaning on it the other day!!

Not for long though!!!

 

Why? You for modding the bonnet with some spikes!! snazzy idea!

Im saving already for my cossie, only 17, driving a 1.4 fiesta LX right now, so hopefully.. by the time i've graduated ( 2007/8) and got my first full time (well) paid job, i'll be able to get me one within the year

Saying that... the last escort cossie rolled out the factory on the.. 12th? of feburary 1996... meaning if i get one of the last ones made.. it's still gonna be 15 ish years old which is.. well old i suppose!

Hopefully the "in the pipeline" Focus RS Cosworth will be a rival for the classic that is the Escort Cosworth!

Here's hoping.....

 

if you dont put big bhp through them i think they are very reliable. if you put 60% more power through something is gonna have problems!

 

your rite there m8 but the moral is when they break cus they do even as std just modify and modify and dont give them chance 2 break very regular maintenance with a cossy its essential m8

 

Why? You for modding the bonnet with some spikes!! snazzy idea!


Hopefully the "in the pipeline" Focus RS Cosworth will be a rival for the classic that is the Escort Cosworth!

Here's hoping..... [/quote]

no mate, i meant they weren't on it for long!!

but its a good idea!!! my rottweiller attitude to people that don't respect the fookin legend is enuff to pit em off!!!!!

good luck with the good job/esc/foc cossie!

if the focus cossie emerges, (which i have had a bit of insider information that the engine was the last ford owned cossie project) then it should be a winner!!!!!

they have pedigree together!!

there isn't a waiting list for nothing, surely!

 

True, Audi now own/commision cosworth i've heard? That right or just pub talk?

Heard plenty roumours (sp?) about the focus cossie, all sounds good for a big powered 4x4 effort, just need to wait an see though!!

Colodo.

 

don't know who took it but ford sold it!!!

that was pub talk as well, as i was with one of their employees in my local!!(northants)

 

Haha, i heard that cosworth was bought/comissioned by audi/VW group form a mate who worked for Ford Either they know ther shit, or just talk baws!!

 

they havent removed any of the work force yet!!

the focus cossie engine is finished and sitting there!!!!!

it costs too much for ford at the minute!!

but they said that about the BDA engine as well!!

ford cannot afford to miss out by not doing a mental 4x4 focus cossie!

lets face it, if the current rs focus is the future of the rs marque, we are doomed!!!

 

worked hard, saved money, paid in cash

that's the only way if you want something expensive

 

damn right!