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Ford Escort (Europe)

Ford Escort
Ford Escort RS2000 MkI.jpg
Ford Escort RS2000 Mark I
Overview
Manufacturer Ford Europe
Production 1968–2003
Body and chassis
Class Small family car (C)
Related Ford Orion
Chronology
Predecessor Ford Anglia (UK)
Successor Ford Laser (Australasia)
Ford Meteor (Australia)
Ford Focus
First generation
Ford Escort MkI 1100 1972.JPG
1972 Ford Escort 1100 L Mark I 2 door saloon
Overview
Production 1968–1975
Assembly Halewood, England
Saarlouis, Germany
Cork, Ireland
Nazareth, Israel
Homebush, Australia
Seaview, New Zealand
Taipei, Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho, CKD)
Genk, Belgium
Body and chassis
Body style 2/4-door saloon
3-door estate
2-door van
Layout Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Powertrain
Engine 0.9 L Crossflow I4
1.1 L Crossflow I4
1.3 L Crossflow I4
1.6 L Crossflow I4
1.6 L Lotus-Ford Twin Cam I4
1.6 L Cosworth BDA I4
1.7 L Cosworth BDB I4
2.0 L Pinto TL20H I4
Dimensions
Wheelbase 94.5 in (2,400 mm)
Length 159.25 in (4,045 mm) (saloon)
160.8 in (4,084 mm) (estate)
Width 61.8 in (1,570 mm)
Height 58.5 in (1,486 mm)
Curb weight 1,690 lb (767 kg)
Second generation
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Ford Escort Mark II 4-Door Saloon
Overview
Production 1974–1981
Assembly Halewood, England
Saarlouis, Germany
Cork, Ireland
Homebush, Australia
Wiri, New Zealand
Amsterdam, Netherlands (1975–1978)
Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa
Body and chassis
Body style 2/4-door saloon
3-door estate
2-door van
Layout Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Powertrain
Engine
Dimensions
Wheelbase 94.5 in (2,400 mm)
Length 156.5 in (3,975 mm) (saloon)
163 in (4,140 mm) (estate)
Width 61.8 in (1,570 mm)
Height 55.65 in (1,414 mm)
Curb weight 1,940 lb (880 kg)
Third generation
Ford Escort front 20071017.jpg
Overview
Production 1980–1986
Assembly Halewood, England
Almussafes, Spain
Saarlouis, Germany
São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Designer Uwe Bahnsen
Patrick Le Quément
Body and chassis
Body style 3/5-door hatchback
3/5-door estate
2-door cabriolet
3-door van
Layout Front-engine, front-wheel-drive
Platform Ford CE14 platform
Related Ford Orion Mark I
Powertrain
Engine 1.1 L Valencia I4
1.1 L CVH I4
1.3 L CHT inline-four engine
1.3 L CVH I4
1.6 L CHT inline-four engine
1.6 L CVH I4
1.6 L CVH Turbo I4
1.6 L LT diesel I4
Transmission 4-speed BC4 manual
5-speed BC5 manual
3-speed ATX automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase 2,393 mm (94.2 in)
Length Hatchback: 3,907 mm (153.8 in)
Estate: 4,033 mm (158.8 in)
Width 1,640 mm (64.6 in)
Height 1,400 mm (55.1 in)
Fourth generation
Ford Escort MK4 front 20081215.jpg
Overview
Production 1986–1992
Assembly Halewood, England
Almussafes, Spain
Saarlouis, Germany
General Pacheco, Argentina
Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Body and chassis
Body style 3/5-door hatchback
3/5-door estate
2-door cabriolet
3-door van
Layout Front-engine, front-wheel-drive
Platform Ford Erika platform
Related Ford Orion Mark II
Powertrain
Engine 1.0 L CHT I4
1.1 L Valencia I4
1.1 L HCS I4
1.3 L Valencia I4
1.3 L HCS I4
1.4 L CVH I4
1.6 L CHT I4
1.6 L CVH I4
1.6 L CVH Turbo I4
1.8 L VW EA827 I4
1.6 L LT diesel I4
1.8 L Lynx diesel I4
Transmission 4-speed BC4 manual
5-speed BC5 manual
3-speed ATX automatic
CVT CTX automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase 2,400 mm (94.5 in)
Length Hatchback: 4,022 mm (158.3 in)
Estate: 4,080 mm (160.6 in)
Width 1,640 mm (64.6 in)
Height 1,385 mm (54.5 in)
Fifth generation
Ford Escort front 20080205.jpg
Overview
Production 1990–1997
Assembly Halewood, England
Almussafes, Spain
Saarlouis, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey (Ford Otosan)
São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Body and chassis
Body style 3/5-door hatchback
4-door saloon
5-door estate
2-door cabriolet
3-door van
Layout Front-engine, front-wheel-drive
Related Ford Orion Mark III
Powertrain
Engine 1.3 L HCS I4
1.4 L CVH I4
1.6 L CVH I4
1.6 L Zetec I4
1.8 L Zetec I4
2.0 L I4 DOHC I4
2.0 L VW AP I4
2.0 L Cosworth YBT I4
1.8 L Endura-D diesel I4
1.8 L Endura-D turbodiesel I4
Transmission 4-speed BC4 manual
5-speed BC5 manual
5-speed MTX-75 manual
3-speed ATX automatic
CVT CTX automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase 2,525 mm (99.4 in)
Length Hatchback: 4,036 mm (158.9 in)
Sedan: 4,268 mm (168.0 in)
Wagon: 4,268 mm (168.0 in)
Width 1,692 mm (66.6 in)
Height 1,395 mm (54.9 in)
Curb weight 900–1,070 kg (1,984–2,359 lb)
Sixth generation
Ford Escort first reg Jan 1997 1391cc.JPG
Overview
Production 1995–2004
Assembly Halewood, England
Saarlouis, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey (Ford Otosan)
Obchuk, Belarus (Ford Union)
General Pacheco, Argentina
Body and chassis
Body style 3/5-door hatchback
4-door saloon
5-door estate
3-door van
2-door convertible
Layout Front-engine, front-wheel-drive
Powertrain
Engine 1.3 L Endura-E I4
1.4 L CVH-PTE I4
1.6 L Zetec I4
1.8 L Zetec I4
2.0 L I4 DOHC I4
1.8 L Endura D diesel I4
1.8 L Endura D turbodiesel I4
1.8 L Endura D TDDi I4
Transmission 5-speed manual
3-speed automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase 2,525 mm (99.4 in)
Length Hatchback: 4,136 mm (162.8 in)
Sedan: 4,293 mm (169.0 in)
Wagon: 4,300 mm (169.3 in)
Width 1,691 mm (66.6 in)
Height 1,398 mm (55.0 in)
Curb weight 989–1,140 kg (2,180–2,513 lb)

The Ford Escort is a small family car which was manufactured by Ford Europe from 1968 to 2004. The Ford Escort name was also applied to several different small cars produced in North America by Ford between 1981 and 2003.

In 2014, Ford revived the Escort name for a car based on the second-generation Ford Focus sold on the Chinese market.

The first use of the Ford Escort name was for a reduced specification version of the Ford Squire, a 1950s estate car version of the British Ford Anglia 100E.

The Mark I Ford Escort was introduced in the United Kingdom at the end of 1967, making its show debut at Brussels Motor Show in January 1968. It replaced the successful, long-running Anglia. The car was presented in continental Europe as a product of Ford's European operation. Escort production commenced at the Halewood plant in England during the closing months of 1967, and for left hand drive markets during September 1968 at the Ford plant in Genk. Initially the continental Escorts differed slightly from the UK built ones under the skin. The front suspension and steering gear were differently configured and the brakes were fitted with dual hydraulic circuits; also the wheels fitted on the Genk-built Escorts had wider rims. At the beginning of 1970, continental European production transferred to a on the edge of Saarlouis, West Germany.

The Escort was a commercial success in several parts of western Europe, but nowhere more than in the UK, where the national best seller of the 1960s, BMC's Austin/Morris 1100 was beginning to show its age while Ford's own Cortina had grown, both in dimensions and in price, beyond the market niche at which it had originally been pitched. In June 1974, six years into the car's UK introduction, Ford announced the completion of the two millionth Ford Escort, a milestone hitherto unmatched by any Ford model outside the US. It was also stated that 60% of the two million Escorts had been built in Britain. In West Germany cars were built at a slower rate of around 150,000 cars per year, slumping to 78,604 in 1974 which was the last year for the Escort Mark I. Many of the German built Escorts were exported, notably to Benelux and Italy; from the West German domestic market perspective the car was cramped and uncomfortable when compared with the well-established and comparably priced Opel Kadett, and it was technically primitive when set against the successful imported Fiat 128 and Renault 12. Subsequent generations of the Escort made up some of the ground foregone by the original model, but in Europe's largest auto-market the Escort sales volumes always came in well behind those of the General Motors Kadett and its Astra successor.


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