ive owned esc cossies for over 10 yrs now and it got me thinking will you ever sell yours and move onto something else? if so, what? or do you plan on keeping it ,i dont think i could justify selling mine after all the work and cash thats gone into it still fancy a speed 6 though

 

Had my escort cos for 5 and a half years. No plans to sell it.


Dave

 

had cossie's for 8 years now,and don't see me selling this one..

 

i totally regret the day i sold my escos

so iv'e starting the search for another

 

I love my car so much but I know its a complete waste of money I did about 1000 miles in it last year, that was either going to shows or getting it serviced, I have a mk3 Golf GTI I use for work and hate the fact that this is what I drive every day. Thing is I couldn't use my Escos even if I wanted to as I work in a place where people would bash their doors into it etc and I would cry
I really want a nicer car to use every day and then I wont worry about all the money being sat in the garage-however the one BIG plus point is when it does come out I love it even more-so I dont think I will ever sell it

 

had cossies for well over 10 years and after not having one for 8 months,i just had to get another one.

did look at other cars but needed the escort cosworth back again.

 

I too have owned cossies for quite a few years. Begining of last year sold my Escort as i fancied something newer , so i bought an EVO8 . Only had this 11 weeks as i hated it, and struggled to sell it . Had to sell it to a trader at a loss of over 2k and bought an 04 plate focus RS . Knew i would not have much trouble selling this, so i could get another Escort . Would sell this, but only for another cossie

 

I bought mine as a keeper, properly regret selling my Fiesta RS Zetec Turbo, will never make that mistake again

 

I was considering selling mine because I was getting fed up of not using it as much as I could and after 3 years of ownership and over Ł40k in to her I wanted rid...........BUT I just cant bring myself to sell her so I've just bought myself an SMG E46 M3 convertible. Cossie is mothballed till my enthusiam returns.

 

had cosworths for about 8 or 9 years on and off and seem to always want one if i have gone without. This is my first escort and with all the time/work we all put into our car's i wouldn't want to get another and start again so i want to keep this one. If it does go though it will be the last cossie i have
I think there might be quite a few people who want to go down the evo route because after selling the escort cos you have most/all of the money to go and get a 04 evo 8 (new car) but im sure they have there + & - points

 

When I am old and decripid I will, but I had a look at selling it....what do you replace it with???

 

Euhm... yes

Sold our Sapph 4x4 2,5 years ago to buy an EsCos...
Sold that EsCos 3 weeks ago and bought a Focus RS...

Only thing I regret is selling the Sapph

 

Unless the price is right

 

I have owned mine for 2.5 years now. I have driven it once and you still could not pry it from me. Takes a while to modify a cosworth in Australia as everything has to be custom made. Will be worth the wait though.
I will "NEVER" sell mine.

 

I have been in the cossie scene for 7years, now, Still got my sapph as i would
never sell it !!. Cos i love it too much, I have only had the escos 4 months but the
more i drive it the more i like it, so wont be sellin that either....

Need a double garage now...

Al........

 

Dont think i could really sell wouldnt no
what to get , if i did it would be another
escort cossie.................................

 

I would sell my cossie if the price was right but what do you buy after you have had a cossie? I would maybe build a focus cossie

 

I did Stupidist thing i ever did But it was for a reason Pretty stupid reason, as i cant find a low mileage imperial blue one anywhere now

 

that must be a record, or some very major mods going on?

 

had mine coming up for for 3 years now, was this "-" close to selling it the other day - but my original plan was always to keep it as a hobby - when funds run dry - garage it and wait - it isnt loosing any value and i do like driving it (it has a good feel - feels safe) just that wehn every time you get in it and something else stops working its like a fookin TVR, it does push you to the limit

 

WHAT ?? SAFE???

 

Had esc cossies for the last seven years and I don't think I will ever want to own anything else.

 

dont think i would sell mine, theres no other car on the roads that would get you more attention and stares, you know what i mean, like when you drive past people and you look in the rear view mirror and you see folk pointing and talking.

 

I would sell it if anybody wanted to buy it for sensible money :-( Pretty worthless over here.

Still as I cannot sell it I keep pumping money into it and beeing poor myself One day the Cossie kills me or I kill the Cossie... :-/


For now I'm jaleus of people with brand new STI's and Evo's but if I had loads of money I would have one in my garage... but in couple of yers shortage of parts will keep them off-road anyway :-/

 

it feels safe - ie, chunky , substantial and surefooted, not just a normal car - you can feel the mechanics of it - might just be me

 

I might be not the best car tester but I've driven a couple of cars and Escos is not one of the safest/easiest handling for sure Fells pretty scary at high speeds to me. But it maybe that mine is just piece of junk, although this is opinion shared by some rallydrivers.

 

dont get me wrong at high speed - you do need your wits abuot you as the there is a quite a bit of body roll and weight shift ..........and lag..... but around town and normal driving its better than a lot i reckon.

 

Well I never had any problem with body roll, but I never driven one with completly standard suspention. I don't have much lag on mine but even one with lots of lag I driven didn't scare me with that. When I'm going properly fast I'm in usable rev range anyway. But the way oversteer apears from nowhere on Escos is almost unknown to any other 4x4 car I've driven, also it can sometimes unexpectly undeersteer badly. It is very capable car though and it's only a matter of skill to go fast in it. It's lots of fun on in slippery conditions too, even if not so fast then (I got beaten by fuckin' N/A Legacy on icy track , but did some STI's at the same time )

 

but if yu are aware of the oversteer and take that into account and have the nerve to hold it on boost when it does it, it does come nicely back in when the diffs lock up

 

Not so easy in the wet or when road is bumpy (it's always bumpy over here). But yes it can be controlled, I just wanted to say it's nowhere near easy of safe handlinga nd that is most of it's fun. True, demanding, rally-bred driver's car

 

but when you are going normal speed in traffic etc, its safe, as in it stops well and can shift direction quickly

 

Well... in normal trafic anything including smar car is good enough for me. I just don't care anymore I think. Although scos is nice, especially now in snowy conditions I'm having lots of fun when it not so tight trffic. My University mate nearly shitted himself today when I gave him a lift I don't think hhe likes Scandinavian Flick..maybe I wasn't doing it well enough?

 

 

I'd only sell mine in bits.It's the only way you can recover some of your losses.

 

had mine nearly 3 years and it's going nowhere,garaged most of the year don't miss not driving it only do 1 k a year, owes me nothing, doesn't cost the earth to run, if you take care of them they take care of you

steve

 

only trouble is ive taken great car of mine and its wanted for nothing - and then it turns on me and holds me to randsome - your wallet or your garage!

 

youve had a lot of probs with yours dave,feel sorry for you,itll be worth it in the end though well worth putting cometic inlet manifold gaskets on while you have it in bits,stick with it!

 

ive priced for them, already got a cometic rocker cover gasket - i will probably go for cometic head gasket aswell - .. again

 

come on Steve, if you only do 1000 miles a year then its hardly going to break is it and it won't cost much to run either.

 

doubt i'll ever sell mine it will just get faster and better