what is a ford press car???
10-01-2010, 08:09 PM
#41
Monte 087
Bortaf, thats some list how did you find that out?, have you got a list for the escort cosworths used as press/publicity cars aswell?
*edit* just noticed how old the thread is
*edit* just noticed how old the thread is
10-01-2010, 08:10 PM
#42
PassionFord Post Whore!!
The OO on the end only serves to show the area the car was first registered in.
I've got an XR4i that is YOO and my donor XR4x4 was XOO. The 4i has the warranty disc but I understood that to show that it had been troublesome, bought back by Ford and fixed, then disposed through the trade without any further warranty.
When I worked for Hertz, my company cars were almost always Vauxhalls and they usually had *NP, or * AB registrations, just because that's where Vauxhall did their registering.
All our cars would be sold on as ex-management cars, not as press or demo cars.
I've got an XR4i that is YOO and my donor XR4x4 was XOO. The 4i has the warranty disc but I understood that to show that it had been troublesome, bought back by Ford and fixed, then disposed through the trade without any further warranty.
When I worked for Hertz, my company cars were almost always Vauxhalls and they usually had *NP, or * AB registrations, just because that's where Vauxhall did their registering.
All our cars would be sold on as ex-management cars, not as press or demo cars.
10-01-2010, 08:19 PM
#44
st170 breaking
ive known a few erst's with non warrenty discs on the slam and known dozens with OO at th eend of the reg, if they were ALL press cars there were fuckin hundreds :blub:
28-09-2012, 05:00 PM
#46
15000
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Just done a search of my old car reg number and this came up, and my car was one of the press cars? It is sierra sapphire rs 4x4 cosworth K242 FTW now on K444 FWD which it has been on the new plate just after it was registered so i was told. I have now owned the car approx 8years!
Now i have found this thread does anybody have any pictures of my car in the press? or any other pictures come to think of it?
Thanks Dan
Now i have found this thread does anybody have any pictures of my car in the press? or any other pictures come to think of it?
Thanks Dan
30-09-2012, 11:50 AM
#49
PassionFord Post Whore!!
Just because a car is registered to a car maker, it doesn't mean it was ever a press car. Apart from the possibility that a motoring journalist wrote about your car and maybe took some photos, I don't see a huge excitement about a succession of "driving gods" thrashing my car from cold, up to (and beyond) the limits of man and/or machine.
And if it was in the press fleet, it doesn't mean there are any pictures. For every magazine that reviews cars and prints pics, there will be a few national newspapers that will publish just a single picture (and that might be a library shot provided by the maker and featuring another car), and dozens of regional/local papers that will use - at best - a library shot but more often no picture at all.
In fact, although many publications might qualify for the use of the press fleet, many of them might never publish their own feature but will just regurgitate a syndicated piece or even the makers press-release!
And, of course, a lot of press cars never go near the press, but it's a handy way to score a few more registrations if the competition is getting a bit close to you in the volume tables.
Did find this, but no idea if it is of any use or interest:
http://www.drivearchive.co.uk/vehicl...sp?CarID=30716
And if it was in the press fleet, it doesn't mean there are any pictures. For every magazine that reviews cars and prints pics, there will be a few national newspapers that will publish just a single picture (and that might be a library shot provided by the maker and featuring another car), and dozens of regional/local papers that will use - at best - a library shot but more often no picture at all.
In fact, although many publications might qualify for the use of the press fleet, many of them might never publish their own feature but will just regurgitate a syndicated piece or even the makers press-release!
And, of course, a lot of press cars never go near the press, but it's a handy way to score a few more registrations if the competition is getting a bit close to you in the volume tables.
Did find this, but no idea if it is of any use or interest:
http://www.drivearchive.co.uk/vehicl...sp?CarID=30716
01-10-2012, 08:23 PM
#50
PassionFord Post Whore!!
Just because a car is registered to a car maker, it doesn't mean it was ever a press car. Apart from the possibility that a motoring journalist wrote about your car and maybe took some photos, I don't see a huge excitement about a succession of "driving gods" thrashing my car from cold, up to (and beyond) the limits of man and/or machine.
And if it was in the press fleet, it doesn't mean there are any pictures. For every magazine that reviews cars and prints pics, there will be a few national newspapers that will publish just a single picture (and that might be a library shot provided by the maker and featuring another car), and dozens of regional/local papers that will use - at best - a library shot but more often no picture at all.
In fact, although many publications might qualify for the use of the press fleet, many of them might never publish their own feature but will just regurgitate a syndicated piece or even the makers press-release!
And, of course, a lot of press cars never go near the press, but it's a handy way to score a few more registrations if the competition is getting a bit close to you in the volume tables.
Did find this, but no idea if it is of any use or interest:
http://www.drivearchive.co.uk/vehicl...sp?CarID=30716
And if it was in the press fleet, it doesn't mean there are any pictures. For every magazine that reviews cars and prints pics, there will be a few national newspapers that will publish just a single picture (and that might be a library shot provided by the maker and featuring another car), and dozens of regional/local papers that will use - at best - a library shot but more often no picture at all.
In fact, although many publications might qualify for the use of the press fleet, many of them might never publish their own feature but will just regurgitate a syndicated piece or even the makers press-release!
And, of course, a lot of press cars never go near the press, but it's a handy way to score a few more registrations if the competition is getting a bit close to you in the volume tables.
Did find this, but no idea if it is of any use or interest:
http://www.drivearchive.co.uk/vehicl...sp?CarID=30716
1) It might have sat around in a car-park for the first six months of it's life unused (it does happen) and then sold on just to push up sales figures
2) It's had a different driver every day and been abused from cold, daily with fluid levels hardly ever checked.
3) It genuinely was a managers car, sat on the motor-way or parked in the car park.
None of the above situations are particularly special so why write about it?
The only interesting things with press cars is they're usually first off the production line when a new model is introduced and have an unusual spec. Cassette players when everything else in the "production" range has a cd player for example.
ooo a press car, it lives in a car park enviroment (dents) driven by people who don't care has one off spec and probably random faults that no-one can seem to fix as it's essentially a miss-match of parts.
01-10-2012, 08:36 PM
#51
PassionFord Post Whore!!
New-model launches might see some oddball cars in the press fleet (but not too oddball, because they want the story to match the car the punter might buy).
During the life of a model most makers will take normal well-specc'd production cars from stock to keep the press/demo fleets ticking over.
If a car does belong to a maker's press/demo fleet it will be carefully checked in and out (so any damage can be recharged), and repairs will be done so the next reviewer doesn't get a dented car delivered or stuck at the side of the road in a broken-down car.
During the life of a model most makers will take normal well-specc'd production cars from stock to keep the press/demo fleets ticking over.
If a car does belong to a maker's press/demo fleet it will be carefully checked in and out (so any damage can be recharged), and repairs will be done so the next reviewer doesn't get a dented car delivered or stuck at the side of the road in a broken-down car.
02-10-2012, 05:08 PM
#56
PassionFord Post Whore!!
More likely to be that than a press car.
The manufacturer wll have their own demo/press fleets and sometimes supply a demo to dealerships ahead of the launch date for a car - eg Mercedes provided SLS demos ahead of launch, and are now putting a left-hand-drive new A-Class in every showroom ahead of the launch, but those cars are not being registered or put on the road and - when RHD stock starts to come in - these will go back to Germany.
Almost all dealer demonstrators are registered in the dealer's name.
The manufacturer wll have their own demo/press fleets and sometimes supply a demo to dealerships ahead of the launch date for a car - eg Mercedes provided SLS demos ahead of launch, and are now putting a left-hand-drive new A-Class in every showroom ahead of the launch, but those cars are not being registered or put on the road and - when RHD stock starts to come in - these will go back to Germany.
Almost all dealer demonstrators are registered in the dealer's name.
02-10-2012, 05:11 PM
#57
PassionFord Post Whore!!
Forgot to add,that for 6 years in a FoMoCo subsidiary, almost all my company cars were Vauxhalls, registered to Vauxhall and they were all classed as "management cars".
Nothing special about them - I ordered the spec, colour and options that I wanted. It came from stock or factory order, and when I got my next car it went back to be sold through Network Q.
Nothing special about them - I ordered the spec, colour and options that I wanted. It came from stock or factory order, and when I got my next car it went back to be sold through Network Q.
04-10-2012, 07:08 PM
#58
PassionFord Post Whore!!
07-06-2016, 02:53 PM
#62
I've found that life I needed.. It's HERE!!
Remember the sapphires when new and don't recall seeing one that wasn't sideways or bouncing off the limiter
21-08-2017, 02:34 PM
#64
Virgin
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Ireland
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
D350 SLV
I have the D350 SLV.
I nice know it was a works car originally.
Cyrill Bolton from Presspart was said to have build this for McRae or McRae bought then from Presspart
I nice know it was a works car originally.
Cyrill Bolton from Presspart was said to have build this for McRae or McRae bought then from Presspart
Last edited by Ledwith; 21-08-2017 at 02:36 PM.
21-08-2017, 06:25 PM
#65
Wahay!! I've lost my Virginity!!
A bloke on another forum I use discovered his car that he had bought as an ex-demo was actually a press car, when he caught an old episode of Fifth Gear
28-08-2017, 05:21 PM
#67
Erect Member
A friend of mine bought a Vauhall VX220 Turbo about ten years ago. He discovered quite by chance that it used to belong to Vauxhall's press fleet when someone bought him one of those Jeremy Clarkson supercar shoot out type DVDs for Christmas, and half an hour in there was Jezza thrashing his car round Dunsfold.
He was actually quite please, and when he sold the car on the DVD went with it as proof of its provenance.
He was actually quite please, and when he sold the car on the DVD went with it as proof of its provenance.
31-08-2017, 09:31 AM
#68
Most of the APU RS500s were in fact press cars and lent to all the btcc drivers of the day for a 12 month before being returned to Ford to be sold on.
Jerry Mahoney bought his (E198 APU) from Ford and still owns it.
Quite a few of them were stolen around then as well. There was one at the 100th Ford anniversary at Dunton back in 2012 when I attended with my 500.
Jerry Mahoney bought his (E198 APU) from Ford and still owns it.
Quite a few of them were stolen around then as well. There was one at the 100th Ford anniversary at Dunton back in 2012 when I attended with my 500.
Last edited by PAUL S; 31-08-2017 at 09:37 AM.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Versus_Creations
Pictures, video & Photoshop Forum
24
05-08-2015 09:32 PM
