Interesting Ford we never got in the UK

ginja

ginja

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Yeah people this is a FORD...the ZX2 (or Escort ZX2 as it was known to start with)
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Apparently it ran a 2.0L Zetec engine and was FWD, based on a Mazda floor plan
This is the standard car
2001_Ford_Zx2-1.jpg

Wikipedia link to the history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_ZX2
and the Escort history that shows how the ZX2 out performed the focus when it came outin the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(North_America)

Interesting car, anyone else got anything
 
Sorry Matt but that just mings :sick:

This is more like it......Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo (from a land down under)

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Well yeah the standard car looks a bit pants....nice falcon...Straight six with a turbo just like a supra/skyline....seen one at ford Fair in 2005, it was brutal, they do a V8 version too and a UTE
ford-fg-falcon-ute-1-big.jpg
 
A bit pants? You need a trip to Specsavers Gina!! You are proper blind of late. If that car was a woman I wouldn't touch it with Stupid Daves and he's stupid! :LOL:
 
Apparently Ford were considering bringing the XR6 to our shores to compete with the Monaro/VXR (Auto Express even road tested it). Looks like they chickened out in typical Ford fashion :(
 
ginja said:
Yeah people this is a FORD...the ZX2 (or Escort ZX2 as it was known to start with)
35275_223328.jpg

Apparently it ran a 2.0L Zetec engine and was FWD, based on a Mazda floor plan
This is the standard car
2001_Ford_Zx2-1.jpg

Wikipedia link to the history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_ZX2
and the Escort history that shows how the ZX2 out performed the focus when it came outin the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(North_America)

Interesting car, anyone else got anything
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Think it was a good decision by Ford not to release that here ... hideous.
 
ginja said:
Yeah people this is a FORD...the ZX2 (or Escort ZX2 as it was known to start with)
35275_223328.jpg

Apparently it ran a 2.0L Zetec engine and was FWD, based on a Mazda floor plan
This is the standard car
2001_Ford_Zx2-1.jpg

Wikipedia link to the history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_ZX2
and the Escort history that shows how the ZX2 out performed the focus when it came outin the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(North_America)

Interesting car, anyone else got anything
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Ok.....gonna vom......:sick:
 
Hmm. A lot of hate here for a car that was basically a late-model Escort with a slick body. I don't have any love for the modified one, but the standard model looks like a baby Buick and I can't fault it for that, given the market.

To put it another way, look at this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(Europe)#Ford_Escort_Mark_Vb_.281992.E2.80.931995.29 and then look at this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:97-02_Ford_Escort_sedan.jpg

Same car, built in the same years. Which one looks like a nasty 70s throwback, and which looks like a modern motor?
 
Looks hideous, bit like a Chrysler Neon and that is such a bland ugly car.

I remember the Firenza well, one of the "in" cars of the early 70's, escpecially the 2.3. I had a boring 1200 Viva in a putrid ferny green colour. God i,m feeling old :eek:
 
I hated the Firenza with a vengeance, only because of the style, i knew nothing about the technical side of cars back then, i just knew i didn't like it. This "escort" seems to just remind me of the Firenzas rear quarters :(
 
The whole 1990s styling was bland. All cars converged suddenly towards trying to look exactly the same, in order to appeal to as many people as possible. The American market in particular excelled at offensively inoffensively styled cars. The last Granada we got here was American styled and was absolutely gopping. The American Escort makes Daewoo look exciting. The Taurus and Contours looked like they'd melted too, as did the Probe. Ford weren't alone though - pretty much everything 'styled' for the US market in that period was drawn such that you could actually walk into a dealer and buy a new car, purely because you forgot you already owned one! A cunning sales ploy, which failed because most of the American car manufacturers got into a hell of a mess financially during the 90s.
 
Thank God the Cougar wasn't designed in the US in the 1990s then. Dodged a bullet there!




Kidding, kidding... Mostly.
 
Pid_16V said:
Very strange! Does anybody else remember the ****hall Firenza?

http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/vauxhall-firenza.html

http://apptree.net/firenza.htm
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I remember those chaps, and recall thinking that its 'eyes' were too close together.

One thing I do remember with some fondness, however, is watching the saloon cars on ITV with my dad and some big fella called Gerry Marshall (I think) wrestling one around the circuit. All side burns, slip on shoes, and home-embroidered badges on his overalls....sorry, race-suit :LOL:

Now this is one I would have liked to have seen.....well, heard;

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The South African XR8 - 5.0L of V8 dropped into a basically standard XR platform for a truly frightening, uncontrolable, and unpredictable ride apparently......but by God, it would have sounded luvly :D
 
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