...their Es Cos to buy a new shiny RS Focus or is the jury still out on that until we've driven 1?

 

Waiting to see one at the motorshow next Friday. But doubt I'd hand over £25K for one, it would need to be a bit special for that kind of money.

 

I know a guy selling and awsome 500bhp escos for one

 

already sold mine for just that reason,before there is a glut of esc cossies on the market

 

Thats what people said when the first Focus RS came out. It Didn't happen, second time lucky maybe but I doubt it.

 

well and trully sticking with my escort

 

I second that

I'm sure the new focus will be good, but couldn't part with the escos and don't have a spare £25k

 

I will be sticking with my Escort Cossie, much more fun...

 

same here! although im looking forward to seeing the focus tomorrow

 

You'd have to be mad to sell an escos for a tarted up st.

 

AGREE

 

i also agree

Cosworth is where its at not Volvo

 

Keeping the Escort and buying the focus.

 

tell me more!

 

you have to move with the times,technology has progressed from the dinosaur days,lol.

























































although if its not as good as its promised i may just get another esc cos instead

 

stick with escort for sure

 

New price of an EsCos was around 23 grand & that was more than 10 years ago.

Thus a new Focus would need to be costing around 35 grand (or more depending on how you chose to count inflation over the intervening years) to be comparable.

In conclusion then, this new Focus is perhaps more a Mk 5 RS 2000 for the 21st century than an Es Cos replacement 'cos it's just too cheap to be that.

Bear in mind that 35 grand buys a shiny new Imprezza or Evo, surely the cars we want Ford to be competing against, on the street, not just on the gravel.

 

The German talks sense AND has better english skills than me!

And no I would not sell the escos for one as I would never buy a new car due to depreciation

 

Couldn't of said it better myself. Shame Ford don't think the same way, maybe they think people won't pay £35K for a Focus RS. I never thought these cars were built to make money but to get people into the show rooms & buy low spec cars.

I'm sure they could of built a true successor to the Escort for £30K & make it a proper rally replica. 4x4 350 BHP to compete with the Evo's & Scoobies.

 

if you chose a lux with leather /aircon/cd etc it was closer to 27k in the end,although they did reduce the price towards the end of the run to help shift the remaining cars

 

are these new ones a limited run like the old frs?if not then the value will drop like mad.

 

I will be sticking with the escos. I had a front wheel drive car with 300bhp years ago and it nearly killed me one day torque steering. imo it has to be rear or 4x4 drive.

 

is it true thier all that gren colour? if so i wouldnt want one, why would anyone want a car the same colour as every other one? its like the old focus RS, you go ford fair etc and have row of them, all look the same except from different private plates . cossies etc can be rare in certain colours giving them value etc, you'll never see that in a focus rs pmsl (just my opinion btw)

 

Er, Phil, I'll have to come clean here, I'm not actually German, I just live here. What's more, I teach English...

 

theyre hoping on selling 8-9000,till the next shape focus comes out,this is putting me off it now as they will be ten a penny and loose loads of cash like the st ones have done,maybe ill wait a couple of yrs and see what theyre going for then

 

i know exactly what you mean there

 

know all about that so its a good job that this one doesnt have any

 

... brilliant!

 

Yay - I've got a fan.














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