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Originally Posted by Real Thing
I think I was also trying to point out the fact that the Escort Cosworth was such a great Car and well ahead of it’s time, when you think this Car was produced over 15 years ago and it can still more than hold it’s own today, in fact in Std form it’s 0-60 was 5.7 and a top speed of over 140 MPH which considering it was based on the small family hatch is quite remarkable. I actual never got to go in the Escort but enjoyed many happy hours in the Sierra & Sapphire Cosworths as well as a test drive in a RS500
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Not wishing to sound picky or like too much of a nerd but the escort cossie wasn't based on the escort, but the sierra sapphire cosworth that preceeded it - if you line an Escort Cossie up against a regular Escort you'll see the wheelbase, length and width etc are totally different, it wasn't just a case of flaring the arches of the standard car.
This was because the Escort was obviously engineered as a fwd car, and it was more cost effective to stretch the escort body shape (or something that closely resembled it) over a saph chassis than it was re-engineer the Escort for 4WD/RWD applications.
Nerd mode off.