Ford Escort RS2000
| Ford Escort | |
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Ford Escort RS2000 Mark I
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| 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 | |
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1972 Ford Escort 1100 L Mark I 2 door saloon
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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