will i get a good escos for around 10 grand ?
thanks

 

you could get one for that yes imo.

 

Should get a beauty for that mate, 3 doors seem to be overtaking escos in price now.

 

Just dont buy the first 1 you see or less it is in good condition

 

dont think it wil be minty mint for 10k.

 

Depends what you consider as 'good' really. Of course you wont get a mint one, or even an excellent one, but you might get a reasonable one, but expect it to need one or two bits doing at that money.

At the end of the day, its bottom end money so as long as you only expect a bottom end car, and your happy with that, then go for it mate.

 

Youll be VERY lucky if you get a 'beauty' for £10k mate!!! They go for between £10k and £20k for a mint or near mint car, so make of that what you want.

 

how many of the 20k cars do you see selling ? 10k will get you anice one if you know what your looking for.

i once paid 2300 for a d reg s2 rst with 32k on the clock and 1 owner, showroom condition. bargains are out there just have to find them

 

Like any car of this sort of value and rarity, yes it might take a while to sell them, but they do eventually go for good money if they sellers are patient. Like i said, it depends what you class as 'good' or 'nice' as everyone opinions of these words differ greatly, so no one is right or wrong.

You say £10k will get him a 'nice' one, but nice compared to what? Its bottom end money, so if you get anything other than a bottom end car, then your lucky in my opinion. Yes of course bargains are out there, but of course youll be lucky to get even a middle of the range car for £10k in my opinion, even at this time of year with the current situation.

 

Spot on, £10K would get you a high miler or owner car, some service history that would require some work I'd think. Bargains are out there if your lucky.

 

i think the clour has something to do with it too, the rare colours demand slightly more imo, but i have seen a few for around that money that look ok, just be sure you get a good check over done and all should be ok(or maybe a left hand drive one)

 

buyers market i think @ 10k he will do ok, hes just got to look at a few and throw about some offers to ones he likes

 

I sold 2 escoss"s late last year , both well under 10k and both great cars

Paul

 

with an escort cossie u definatly get what u pay for

so will get one for 10k but what it will be like is another thing

 

IMO, if you spend less than 10k, and don't expect to have to spend a little money on them, you're being slightly naive (sp?)

 

in my opinion escort cosworths are way to expensive and over priced i cant understand why a car of this age still fetches so much money its ridiculous i know there an iconic car and was way ahead of its time but its nothing more than a sierra cosworth with basicly a mk5 escort shell on top when u look at sierra saphires there arnd the 5k mark but escorts are 3times as much its outragious and i dont mean to offend any escos owners by this im sure the people who own them wouldn`t object to there cars being cheaper when they bought them but obviously those that do have them will want as much as possible for theres all im saying is i cant believe there priced the way they are?

 

Have to agree with you there. Over priced definatly when you can get a great saff for 5-6k

Escos for 10k, yes

A year ago 10k would have got you a dog.

but now id say you could get a nice example for that, maybe not a mint car, but a clean tidy examply yes.

Id say an escos worth 15k a year ago is generally selling for 10-12k now!!

 

I paid less than £8k for my last one. Mallard, 380bhp, sensible miles and totally bathed in dosh from new. In fact the interior and exterior was like new.

For what they can make on a good day, I can place my money elsewhere and still have a grin on my face Plus I prefer 4 door cars for some strange fetish of a reason

 

this will always pull arguements.
imo you pay what you want for what you want.mine was dear but i dont care its what i wanted.
rather have it than a normal 3 door but equal imo to a 500

and steve,a 500 is alot older and they go for upto 30k

 

I sold a RWD escoss , with BRAND NEW 18" MO"s , konis , s/steel / running stage 3 , all alloy tanks , Mint cloth trim , Fully polly bushed, twin headlamps, and fantastic bodywork , carbon splitters etc

9k





Who says you cant get a mint escoss for under 10k

My opinion is that prices on all cossies have dropped , its just people who own them choose not believe it

 

i paid 8k for an imperial blue lux big turbo , 43k from new 3 owners stage 3 mint

I think people should be more realistic with theor prices if they actually wanna sell

Pauls above looks fantastic, id have bought it for 9k

J

 

I have to agree Steano , Cossies are now dropping in value just like every other car , people just wont have it and still want the same for an old saff that will buy you a 03/04 scooby / evo , and then the wonder why it wont sell

 

Looks like a great car Paul .. BUT...

it is one of those things IMHO, a RWD Escort will put lots of buyers off as they want the 4x4 it was supposed to come with, same as an RS500/3 door would be worth less (from the few I have seen for sale) that are converted to 4x4..

Cossies are a very hard car to put a price on, 3 doors had a big slump and went back up and over , same as saffs are on the up now, Escorts are coming down a bit, give it a few years and they will be back up.

I was going to RWD my Escos, but kept it 4x4 in the end , How did you find yours compared to a RWD saff Paul?

 

Im a massive fan of RWD , Wil , 4x4 is for girls

I love the escoss in RWD , They arnt as loose as a saff so you can drive them harder and keep them in a straight line , BUT , you can hang the arse out if you realy want to

I know what you mean about this car being RWD , But i sold a std escoss with 3 owners from new and FSH about a month before this for less money

 

They are not over-priced , it is a simple case of supply and demand, bearing in mind there are prob only circa 5000 left if that, look at the price of Mk1 RS Escorts, Mk2 Rs Escorts etc, the price of good RS cars will only be going one way for a while, and it's not down! Just look how RS 500's have rocketed the last few years. Now is the time to buy if you want an Escos as they are in a minor slump IMHO

 

And its now on PH at £17995


Didnt this have a wing or something??

 

that car would have been perfect for me, id like a 2wd escort as got sick of removing the engine from mine , 4wd was a pain

Dare i say it 2wd may be more fun !

fair enough bubbled minters deserve a big price tag, id pay 25-30k for any low mileage rs cosworth

But for my toy / track car prices have got to be realistic , quite frustrating when your trying to buy one

Oh well another evo for me lol

 

I love RWD as well Paul, hence the user name , I was so close to going rear drive in the Escos but a few lads I know have had them, and said they were nowhere near as nice to drive as a saff, so my 4x4 saff has gone rear drive instead, and the Escort stayed 4x4 but with all the upgrades like Bara box, 909 thickwall front diff and twin plate clutch etc..

Still might Rear drive the Escos one day if I get bored

 

Do it Wil . I love them and would defo RWD any escoss i ever own in the future

The RWD saff is IMO the best driving cossie ov them all , but would honestly say the escoss in RWD isnt far behind , but as said is a little less twitchy so better for the 4X4 girls as a first RWD car

 

great advice people, i currently have a perfect s2 i know its no cossie but im a perfectionist. if i sold my s2 for an escos it would have to be nice.

RS 500 REGISTRAR do you have a web site as your cars seem very reasonable.
i was at ford fair last year saw loads of shit rs cars in so called mint condition for sale for ridiculous money.

 

Oh come off it mate, what are you basing that on??? Theres always been the odd escos for sale at £10k and quite often a couple below that, but a £10k escos is a £10k escos for a reason. Yes theres still some advertised for around £10k and sometimes even a bit less, but youll find that they are priced like that for one reason or another.

Like the one above, it looks a good buy for £9k, but when you notice that its had a rwd conversion then thats the main reason why its that price im sure. Still a good car for the money though despite being rwd im sure. But that will massively limit the market for a car that already has a limited market to start with, so has to be priced to reflect that in my opinion.

£10k has been bottom end money for as long as i can rememeber, and still is, just like it has been, and still is around £13k-16k has for a decent one, with minters going for more.

The 'recession' we're in is proportionate with most cars, so if you find a seller that needs the money or a quick sale, regardless of what tyoe of escos they have, you have more bargaining power so may get a little more knocked off if your lucky.

 

Sorry, I forgot the original question , yes mate search round and you will get a good one for 10k at the moment, don't forget to look at cars upto 12.5k I recon as if you find a mint car and bargin, I am sure you would find an extra couple of hundred over 10k to pick up a great car? .. Buy on condition, not FSH etc, and a recent rebuild by a reputable company is a big bonus, as the engine is the main expense, and pay lots of attention to the filler area on big turbo cars, and on all models the sills, front and rear arches and the battery tray, they are prone to rot unbelivably ..

I bought my Escos with a few bits I knew needed doing , full lux small turbo in ash black for 8k , as I said, now is the time to buy IMHO as prices will climb once the crap ones get broken and the Econamy climbs again.

 

now that i didnt expect.i wouldve thought that it was harder to control being shorter,i keep toing with rwd in mine but it would cost me too much at the mo to do it

 

Going RWD you would prob break even selling the 4x4 stuff to go RWD. The wheelbase is only 4.5" ish different so not massvily different, the big thing is the car sits a lot taller than a saff, hence why people have trouble trying to get them to handle?

I need to drive one really, see what I think as a lot of it would depend on the set up, especially one with a proper 6° rear beam I recon ..

The thing that put me off doing mine were 2 blokes from my local RSOC have been into cossies for years, one working on lots of rally cars, both have had rear drive Escorts, and both sold them as they didn't like them. Again, both of them were VERY good experienced drivers, do lots of trackdays etc and just didn't get on with the Escos as a rear driver

 

wil, i wouldnt sell the 4x4 gear so i could put it back again to sell.

 

my my dont u love urself or should i say ur car esccos will stay arnd 10k - 15k now wonder if ud be saying all this if u didnt own 1 eh?

 

got to agree with you there mate , that does look a lot of car for 9k .

and its true what u say about the prices dropping but still looked a bargain

 

I dont love myself , but yes i do love my car as we all do im sure. But what that has to do with my opinion i dont know. Everything i have said is and was my opinion before i even got my escos because i did the research before and thats what the score was mate. I viewed LOADS of cars ranging from £9k-£18k with a definate pattern that emerged, so got the one i was happy with. Just like everyone does when they buy a car, they buy the best they can with their budget.

 

Mate,
you seem to have a real thing about Escort owners being stuck up, Escorts not worth the money etc etc... Open your eyes, prices have been historically strong, and they will stay very close to where they are now if not rise over the next few years, just like the 3 door, RS 500 and saffs. Of course I would like to buy one for 4k, but it ain't going to happen, the price is the price, you either buy one and be happy, or don't and get somthing else, no point in crying that it's not fair cos you can't afford one

 

Sorry to burst your bubble mate , but that car would have been the exact same price if it was std 4x4 , infact i had people desperate for that car simply because it was RWD , It was cheap because it was priced to sell in a seriously declining market , Im realistic and know that if i want to sell a car it has to be a great car at a realistic price

AS SAID , I sold a std 4x4 escoss a month earlier for less than the RWD car , Yes it needed some work but was still priced realisticly so it sold