is it right people on here say the rs2000 isnt a real rs ??
02-05-2012, 09:59 PM
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02-05-2012, 10:07 PM
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Ferraris? Posrches? Sure they're fun to drive but I'm just not interested. I'd far rather plough stupid cash into the likes of a rusty old Ford
02-05-2012, 10:29 PM
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I love the later escorts. Not saying I dont like the early ones, I love them too, but they're getting silly with the prices now. Ł12K for an Escort? No thanks.
I honestly can't see why the later escort RS isnt a "proper" one. Rust? All fords rust. Slow? It would leave an old RS escort for dead.
Give it 20 or so years and I bet people will be saying "Those focus RS', not proper RS', not like a good old Escort RS"
I honestly can't see why the later escort RS isnt a "proper" one. Rust? All fords rust. Slow? It would leave an old RS escort for dead.
Give it 20 or so years and I bet people will be saying "Those focus RS', not proper RS', not like a good old Escort RS"
lol i say the focus rs mk1 and mk2 anit a proper rs now, ones just a chavved up focus (wide body kit and added a turbo dont make a car better) and the other is a vovlo but made worse (a chavs car hands down) and not just me a few rs cosworth owners say the same.
02-05-2012, 11:49 PM
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03-05-2012, 12:15 AM
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03-05-2012, 04:49 PM
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As said, was just over shadowed by the Escort Cos. Good engine, got one in my Sierra and IMHO was the DOHC Ford should have made from the start instead of the 8V version. It gets slated because it's a Mk5 Escort, but then the Cosworth is a boring rep mobile with go faster bits.
03-05-2012, 05:47 PM
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04-05-2012, 12:50 PM
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The mk1 and mk2 escort mexicos where classed as RS cars....so in reality a mk5/5a/6 RS2000 is actually more of an RS than the mk1/2 escort mexico, as they actually wear the RS branding on their tax book, a badge on the bootlid and they have recaros!!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
04-05-2012, 01:13 PM
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04-05-2012, 04:58 PM
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The mk1 and mk2 escort mexicos where classed as RS cars....so in reality a mk5/5a/6 RS2000 is actually more of an RS than the mk1/2 escort mexico, as they actually wear the RS branding on their tax book, a badge on the bootlid and they have recaros!!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
pretty sure the mk5 and 6 rs2000 are XR shells,
04-05-2012, 04:59 PM
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The modern RS fwd shite has won loads of rallies so your a little bit wrong with the above statement
04-05-2012, 05:18 PM
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04-05-2012, 05:26 PM
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04-05-2012, 07:17 PM
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Nothing wrong with the RS2000,s imo.
Im also not interested in porsches or posh fiats either.At the end of the day i wont be able to afford one so theres no point in dreaming about them.
Im also not interested in porsches or posh fiats either.At the end of the day i wont be able to afford one so theres no point in dreaming about them.
04-05-2012, 09:31 PM
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good video of how hard a slow rs2000 can be pushed with a few mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LbWyg02nIA
04-05-2012, 09:48 PM
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04-05-2012, 09:52 PM
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Couldn't say for sure about any other models but shell differences are not unknown
04-05-2012, 09:58 PM
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The mk1 and mk2 escort mexicos where classed as RS cars....so in reality a mk5/5a/6 RS2000 is actually more of an RS than the mk1/2 escort mexico, as they actually wear the RS branding on their tax book, a badge on the bootlid and they have recaros!!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
Typical high horsed wankers with too much of an ego and too much money, will always talk down a mk5-6 RS2000, and personally owning a mk6 RS20000, i rate them as an all round better daily driver than my s2 ERST was and my current FRST!! And would i buy one again - in a heart beat yes!!
Very underrated car and much better driving car than most of bandwagon wank machines that some dickheads drive on the roads!
05-05-2012, 07:47 AM
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The Mk2 Xr4x4 shells/cars were made up at Genk same as the RS versions I believe, rather than over here, probably why they rust 'slightly' less than the UK cars 
Not sure about other shells though tbh.
Not sure about other shells though tbh.
05-05-2012, 12:45 PM
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05-05-2012, 01:11 PM
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good cars and have less issues with the n/a than rst cvh, handle well and comfy. standard far better cars than rsts but then they are 8 years newer. rsts are more fun and highly tunable then i wouldnt mind having a turbod rs2000. competed in motorsport and done well in the hands of gwyndaf evans. better than the astra gsi too, do they deserve the rs badge, yes imho
05-05-2012, 10:32 PM
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I don't think these 2 3 door Cosworth's thought I was too slow... or the Focus RS, or the mk3....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppgp7UJ4VPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppgp7UJ4VPQ
05-05-2012, 10:51 PM
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I don't think these 2 3 door Cosworth's thought I was too slow... or the Focus RS, or the mk3....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppgp7UJ4VPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppgp7UJ4VPQ
Pete, you will be only be told that the 3dr's werent being driven properly or something.
Love your car btw!
05-05-2012, 10:52 PM
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Yeah, I know, they most probably broke down......
Cheers Mark, its not getting out at all this year, as I'm trying to tidy it up and add a few more surprises to her
Cheers Mark, its not getting out at all this year, as I'm trying to tidy it up and add a few more surprises to her
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05-05-2012, 10:54 PM
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