COSSIE 1

Just sat here thinking what do the general public and other motorists think/say when they see a cosworth on the road...........do they think nice car looks really nice, or chav, or dont even think as the fix or repair daily sierra/escort comes by making funny noises???........
bck in its day they were the cars to have the times i used to say "COSSIE" on a night out chilling me balls of waiting in a 10 mile cue to get into a club in bournemouth......but now u rarely see a cosworth or at least a nice one on the roads anymore do people still admire and respect the cars????opinions please...........bt im talking about nice examples not complete rot buckets hammering around chavved to fook

charlie luciano

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Personally I get good comments from people when they see me out in my car, even "normal" motorists comment and say that's a nice car, wether they know what it is is another thing, also you get people having a go no matter what they are driving but I think that's cos they want to see the car shifting so they give you a goading, don't see many cossies on the road nowadays but that's cos i think everyone who owns one is trying to preserve it just as i do,

legendary cars well respected imo


Luciano

Smit

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Well i have been driving mine around for the last fortnight as my run-around gave up..... Fuel bill = D'oh!

Pulled into my local Shell garage to fill up and the worker behind the counter even commented on how nice my cosworth was...

I was quite flattered

Shame as now i got a new runabout is here...... And the cossie is going to stay on the drive

COSSIE 1

cheers guys my 4x4 saph is mint but havent diven it since buying it in august, went out for a test drive with the previous owner my mate gary(g2 fsr) and got loads of looks............my M3 turned heads but i think the cossie is gona do better ...especially when gary's 3dr is up and running and my mates escos comes over

Benni

I was coming home from the Trafford centre and a mint escort cosoworth went past me and i could not stop admiring it. Only ever seen 2 cosworths in the few years i've been driving. Appart from at shows of course but on both occasions i was so excited.

dave green

As above. when driveing mine you always see peeps in the back of cars looking and pointing as you go past. and they alway gather attention in car parks ect.
as you said seeing a cosie on the road these days is becoming a rair thing.


Dave

fezzajsy

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i dont hv a cossie me self but i gotta say they hvnt lost any respect..u occasionally see 1 or 2 on the road n they fooking get the attention they deserve from the likes of me!!!!stuff of dreams cossies are.

antony215

When i see a cossie i think poor guy i wonder how much that's cost him in repairs and part's

Bullett

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personally i think the older generation when they see one do point and say look thats a nice cossie etc.the new generation of playstation kids tend not to think anything of them. and of those playstation kids that are a bit older and somehow afford scoobies,200sx's etc i think they see them as an old sierra,till they get a shock

if i see one myself im still the sort to stare at it with a huge grin on my face even though i own 1.

we took traceys saff to supercar sunday last year and i was suprised at the amount of people chatting to us about it and saying how nice it was and that the have alot of respect for themand this coming from blokes driving 80k upward cars. i suopse though that alot of them proberly had them when they came out and have now had the cash to go prestige.

the cossie is the council estate super car


love em to bits.

Bullett

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lol..not as bad as you may think mate.if looked after.

antony215

But seriously tho i do like to see a nice example that's been well looked after (not that we get that many round here ) but a guy i know brake's and sell's a few and he's had some very nice example's of RS 500's

Rocco

i get asked is it real or that's some kit you've fittted to your car & what car is it but a nice 1 was when i took it to work i had some lads leaning out there car window taking pics

gingeRS

i have had 3 people in recent weeks ask me if it was 'a real one'

possibly due to the fact its black (dont see many black ones round 'ere) or most probably due to the disgusting wheels i am sporting as mine are being repaired

they are truly truly awful

Paddy

AlexD

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I have always had people come and talk to me either in the Sapph or the Escos.

Sometimes i love turning up at the local chav cruise meets, You can see the look on people's faces.

People Stop and Stare either because they love it or because they wonder what it is...

I have had many people say " is that a real one " my reply is " Get in mate, i will take you for a spin " ...

Mrs T

i love seeing a cosworth but i dont really see them now, shame same goes for rs around here,

we have one cosworth what an old bloke owes i think from new but i see that about 2/3 times a year and thats not flying past thats a h reg one in black,

some younger people i dont think understand the car and would rather had a saxo or stuff like that but i suppose i alot has changed since i was at the age off a first car,

Kev.H

AlexD

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No I beg to differ....



That is .......

pete mcrash

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plenty rs clubs up here, so u do see them knockin' about....but i am the same when one drives past...i just staire....lot of the youth don't know about them "is it an evo" NO ask ur dad....untill not long ago there was 4 saffs in my village, but it seems the bug has gone...shame they only used them as summer cars aswell, so the cost couldn't have been to great,anyway the people that "know" say Ooo thats nice...is it fast....i always reply 70mph then laff

lawnsy

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Eagle

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i normally think ... bloody eck a cosworth .. must be standard its atually driving

wimwerf

Most people here don't even know what a cossie is...

They say...its a ford sierra (dutch for saph)...i say..yeah..your right..

Sometimes when they see me passing by with such a hurry a stage 3 4wd saph can...much faster then some would be known fast cars..you see the look on there faces at the traffic lights.."what the feck is that"...."i think..its only a ford..hehe"

i was with a ford dealer a while ago....a bloke there said.."i dont like cossies"..i said why..he said "because you see only young folks driving it"....what a stupid comment is that..

Physio

If i see a white saph i think of that programme that used to come on tv, what was it called .... hmmmm... ermmmm... oh yeah that's it, Taxi

R5FORD

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when we took ours to the ports we stopped at a petrol station and out of nower a guy puls up asks if he can take some pics and then drives off lol yh all the older people know what they are and a few youngsters do aswel

Jay,

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aj ull see the light soon and sell the rice rocket

funny the cossie thing init you own one and see another and still get excited like the other night i found a black g reg one parked in basingstoke and thought that looks nice wonder what power it is

AndyBrew

Whenever I go out in the Cossie people seem to love it, like the guy who delivered my wheels today when I put the garage door up to put the wheels in he was gobsmacked he knew what it was and I couldn't get rid of him LOL!!!

nothing but positive in my experience!

Turbocabbie

I always have a lot of regards for the 3 doors as when I see them they still remind me of seeing the old touring cars of Andy Rouse, Tim Harvey and others spitting flames and making the BMW M3's look pathetic.
For me the three door is the definitive cossie and there is just something about the whale fin which I suppose is the reason why I also prefer the Escort to the Saff.
Saffs rarely get a second look to be honest other than to see what wheels they are running, they just don't look anything special imho

Dicko&Vacant

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Whenever we go out in the Cossie always seem to get people staring at it, and saying how you never see them anymore etc,

oh and even have pikies in petrol stations telling us how easy they are to steal and thats all they used to nick back in the day

you definitely get a lot of admiration though, and funnily enough nearly every evo or scooby you see cant help but stare either

Paulo P

Due to the fact that you don't see them around anymore I love seeing them on the roads. It's so rare to see one and that's the reason I bought mine a couple of months ago. There's a beautiful escort cosworth round my way and when I see that I can't help but stop and stare.

You used to see them everywhere like you do with Subarus but I can now remember the last time I saw one, where it was and what it was

pete mcrash

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...thats cos of all the smoke coming out the back of it.....

sabres74

The majority of drivers on the road havn't a clue, they just see an old Ford. It is the sound of a Cosworth engine that always seems to attract attention, even sat ticking over, people tend to come up because of the sound.

The older generation seem to recognise them far more readily than the youngsters. I had a plumber doing some work one day, he must have been over 60, and I opened the garge door. The Cossie was totally covered and wrapped up for the winter with just the exhaust showing, he immediately said you don't see many Cosworths these days.

RST

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every time me and my dad r out in his sum one always comments on it and there is always sum one who nearly snaps there neck

Rippers

When I got my Esc I took it around to my mum and dads and first thing my dad said 'its got hub caps' talking about the Monte Carlo wheels
My brother mate came out and said 'what the hell is that spoiler on that back' I don't think he ever did believe me the whale tail is standard

Dan

I like to see them on the road and think it's good to see them about still, saw a nice White 3dr the other day on the motorway and watched it till it was out of site!

Personally I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks when they see me out in either of my RS's, they can think what they like, I know what they are and thats all that matters to me, my opinion, no one elses!

cozzfather

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back in the day, i could tell a right un from a replica
from the smell of the oil from the exhaust,only applied to 3dr's
and 2wd sierra sapphire's,when travelling behind
does anybody else know what i mean.
i like the whiff of a cozzie

mk2rstaff

i remember taking my old esc cos to a garage car wash in grays in essex, of all places and i asked if it would be ok to go through the wash and she shouted in the back, i quote oy tracy this car has got a big sticky out thing on the back will it be ok the bloke in front just looked at me and laughed as did i.

i get lots of attention in the 3dr when i out in it, many folk taking pics and asking me to put my foot down to here if its real

gingeRS

its the car

chicks dig the car

collierm

EsCos - Wow, would love one of them

3 Door - Wow, great car, would love one of them

Sapphy - TAXI!!

I had a Saph and always reckoned I'd bought a dud, only the engine livened it up, did nothing for me. Glad to be shot of it to be honest.

Cheers

Matt

cozzfather

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"taff i took that car once to Chesters best kebab shop,parked outside
and the Turkish gezzer goes "hey mahte howa mach issa that
biga sphoiler onna that like,willa one fit mah Rover "

glad you kept it clean and tidy for me

charlie luciano

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For all you people on this thread slagging off saph's

Escort is a fucking comman as muck chavs sharon and daves car

3dr cossies looking a bit dated now

saph's styling has stood the test of time imo


Luciano