hi im trying to decide whether to sell my auralis blue small turbo escort cos to buy a focus rs just wondering how other people rate the focus rs against the escort cos as i fancy a change heres an old picture of my cossy

 

Owned both, miss the esc cos, dont miss the Focus.
Focus is a stonking car dont get me wrong and better standard than an esc cos (in the dry )
imo depends what you want it for. For weekend blasts the esc cos. Everyday the focus

 

Have both and love them both.
But if one HAD to go it would be the EsCos.
Can't give a reasonable explanation for it though

 

here's the solution, lock your cossy in the garage and leave it there for a month don't look at it, no peaking

if you can make it for a month, bring it out of the garage stand back and take a deep breath and thank yourself that you didn't sell it

 

thats an ace response

i drove both before i bought my escort, and i dunno, something just didn't gel for me - steering felt a bit strange to me although I was used to a 4x4 saph.

bought a small turbo escort, and not regretted it and i know i made the right choice.

 

gotta be the escort for me never drove a focus rs but a good few of the focus rs"s that come up for sale always seem to have "will part ex for escort cossie" so that has to be another reason to keep the escort

 

depends on what you want to use the car for, we have an escos & frs, the escos is a great car, more of an icon & gets the power down better, downsides are that an escos is not really an everyday car & its so heavy.
An frs is a modern car, can be used everyday with less worry, as standard is better equiped & quicker than an escos, downsides are the lack of traction, but its still a great car to drive.

 

Everyday car Focus RS. Summer, Weekend and nice weather Escos. would say the Escos for keeping its money to mate. Mark

 

I would keep the escos

nie car from the pic

 

Like posts like this, cos ive had my escort seven years now and sometimes I think of getting a focus, but when I read these replies I always want o keep it,


Dav

 

keep it, I really miss my esc cos, thing is everyone said I would regret it

 

yep I sold my red one years ago and it was the most stupid thing I have ever done, afterwards I spent 5 years buying performance ford and fast ford and nearly wetting myself when I saw one on the road, in between had a BMW 330Ci, Subaru STi8 PPP and an Evo VIII GSR with 340hp and still nothing comes close

mine has been in the garage for a couple of weeks having some bit and bobs done and I am off to collect in an hour and I'm like a kid at xmas, the suns out, I have an extra 30hp and 50lbs can life get any better

 

Can you not buy another one mate?

 

Going travelling for a year and a half at end of April matey. It aint worth it. If still had the monte would have kept it in storage

 

your best bet is to test drive a focus rs BEFORE you sell the escos. I could probably guarentee the Focus wont come anywhere near the escos.

Id keep the escos, alot rarer, more iconic, more fun and alot more cooler than the focus rs

 

The focus RS is a good car but doesn't have the WOW factor like the Escort cosworth. Keep the Escort & save your pennies, the focus will drop in price to the same level as the ERST & FRST are now.

 

i have seen loads of people sell the ecos for a focus RS and within a year have sold there focus and bought another cossie or a evo...

WHY? because people think there missing out on something when really they dont know what they have its only when you get another car realise how boring/dull it is and that you regret selling the ecos...

So IMO if you wanna change your car abour 3-4 times in the next yr or 2 buy a focus RS cause it certainly isn't and never will be what a ecos is...

 

rs focus----not worth the badge!!!
tarted up focus- new seats petrol cap push button start
come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
focus 4x4 cosworth yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but when???
rs escort -hybid built for as job -----and it did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no contest------------------

 

isnt that what every RS is, a tarted up faster verion of the original

 

i sold my rs focus for my st escos, i liked the focus but the cossie is something else

 

thanks for all the replies i have road tested one at the weekend and quite liked the way it drove but just cant decide as the escort cos has always been my dream car ever since they were released back in 1992 but my misses likes the focus rs more than the escos. i use my cossy every day and love it to bits and i do think i would miss it if i sold it i think i may have to try putting it away as said in one of the replies and see how i feel about it then. thanks again for your input

 

My girlfriend also likes a Focus RS more then my EsCos...but hey...it's my car

 

Escos imo drove many times in a frs of a friend of mine drives spott on but does not have the same special feeling you get when driving your escos.