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ford Escort Rs Cosworth Monte Carlo
<br/>Seeing a PH-featured automobile later on the market on our classifieds is at all times fairly thrilling. A type of automobiles, to be found within the gallery of pics on the end of the story, was an Escort Cosworth Monte Carlo Edition Mark has now relinquished ownership of L703RTW, and it is now prepared for a new owner. Still, wins there on the WRC marketing campaign in 'ninety three and 'ninety <a href="http://georgia-fox-hemingway.com">Monaco Escort</a> four was adequate for Ford to commission a limited-version Escort Cosworth. And it will take someone of higher self-resolve than us to go away an Escort Cosworth stationary! We thought such a pristine Escort RS could be a singular find within the PH Classifieds, but evidently not. As time went on the opposition grew to become more powerful and Ford soon experimented with becoming larger engines into the Escort Mk1.<br/><br/>Sorry to say though, if someone has £30K - there is loads of fascinating steel to spend the money on. I'd not spend that on an previous Escort - but good to have the selection. Just take a look at the Sierra Cosworth RS500 and it's disconnected set of injectors, or the Celica GT4 ST205 WRC with it's anti-lag kit all built internally, but not connected. At about the same time the Escort RS1600/Mk1 debuted, Ford as properly experimented with a mid engined prototype on the lines of the Lancia Stratos: the Ford GT70.<img src="http://www.trax-models.co.uk/images/uploads/thumbs/thumb_TR1811.jpg" image_too_big="253" /><br/><br/>I like the Escort Cosworth (though not as much as the Sierra 4x4 for some motive), but as a car it is qualitatively inferior to any variety of other 90s rally-associated machinery, solely the blue oval keeps the value of this stuff within the stratosphere for some motive. Nevertheless it didn't take long after the GT70's rally debut for the Ford administration to grasp the Escort RS1600 is just as fast and significantly better for the advertising. There was an Escort developed especially for the London to Mexico World Cup Rally.<img src="http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/1970_Fiat_850_Sport_Bertone_Coupe_Monte_Carlo_Rallye_1.jpg" image_too_big="252" /><br/><br/>That was it: the Escort RS1600 was easy, it handled properly, could take powerful circumstances and for all that even expensive prototypes had a struggle at hand to maintain up with it - and this once more made the Escort engaging for privateers as nicely. Amazingly this Cosworth BDA engine implies that between 1968 & 1972, in only 4years, the Escort RS1600 (sure, even this 1993cc model was referred to as RS1600) was upgraded from 140BHP to 230BHP!





 
 
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