Ford Escort RS Turbo

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Ford Escort RS Turbo

... Now listen up! This car is a worthy race-car! It’s shifts like a mans eye when his misses catches him looking at another woman, it’s that fast! It shifts really well, from gear 1-2 and 2-3, then 3-4 and then finally 5, the mid-range is exceptional, and the gap between each ... Read review

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RS Shifts your money

Advantages: Shifty, a fast paced motor
Disadvantages: Expensive to drive in

...huge advantage that my the Ford has! But...... Steering?

The Car handles fairly well, I’ve been in worse, but what lets the handling down is the amount of weight the car has on a corner. I mean that when turning a corner, the car doesn’t lean that much, but it’s dead heavy on the wheel.

The tyres take a burn from the heavy steering, turning corners at 40-50mph can even be enough to attack your nose ...
.../> So yes, I got back and I went out that night.... so night for now...... Zzzzzz! Zzzzzz!

Saturday 13th July, 5:32am.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(Alarm sounds)

I wake up and see that the sun is already awake, it looks like it’s gonna be a good day! With a good 200 miles ahead, my thoughts were good, my stomach was sickly and my head was pounding...a previous Friday night!

Now 6am turns ... more

chunka 15.07.2002 (02.08.2002)
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RS Heaven

Advantages: Looks, Performance
Disadvantages: Lack of Ford Dealership Support

...one downside being lack of Ford Dealership help... dont count on it.. they just dont want to know about performance cars anymore.. seems they would rather play with diesels than real cars. Possibly another downside is the fact that the power you have just never feels enough with these cars... you get used to it and despite feeling incredibly fast at 180 bhp when i bought it, my RS is now giving "performance" cars (never lost to a scoobie yet!) hell, ...
...cars tend to suffer.. but if the worst case scenario occurs and your engine goes bang(as mine did!.... please respect the bleed valve...despite what your passengers my tell you winding it out to 25 psi is not good!)a brand new highly moddified engine can be purchased and fitted for under 2 grand. ..(try finding a deal like that for your Japanese motor) In total ive spent £000's on mine ... 17 inch wheels,Large intercooler, lowered, uprated engine ...

stormin 22.09.2000 · Read full review
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Escort RS Turbo

Advantages: looks, performance...and the ladies love em!
Disadvantages: Lack of FORD garage support

...one downside being lack of Ford Dealership help... dont count on it.. they just dont want to know about performance cars anymore.. seems they would rather play with diesels than real cars. Possibly another downside is the fact that the power you have just ever feels enough with these cars... you get used to it and despite feeling incredibly fast at 180 bhp when i bought it, my RS is now giving "performance" cars (never lost to a scoobie yet!) hell, ...
...Reliability wise older cars tend to suffer.. but if the worst case scenario occurs and your engine goes bang(as mine did!.... please respect the bleed valve...despite what your passengers my tell you winding it out to 25 psi is not good!)a brand new highly moddified engine can be purchased and fitted for under 2 grand. ..(try finding a deal like that for your Japanese motor) In total ive spent £000's on mine ... 17 inch wheels,Large intercooler, ...

stormin 04.10.2000 · Read full review
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My Escort RS Turbo

Advantages: Rare, Tuneable, Desirable and Fast
Disadvantages: Addictive

I`ve owned a black 1988 series 2 for 9 years now and it just keeps getting better. Every year they bring out faceless, soulless plastic cars and the RST just looks better. It`s so tuneable and 200 bhp is easily achievable on the series 2 as they were de-tuned from the factory for road use. All you need is a new fuel management chip (Ahmed Bayjoo chips are by far the best), a -31 actuator to increase the boost (series 2`s can easily handle 1 bar( ...
...decent exhaust and a high lift cam will see you with at least 180 bhp. This amount of power in a car that doesn`t weigh that much equals a lot of fun and some embarrassed Subaru/Evo drivers! Obviously you can go with more power but then it starts getting expensive. Front mount intercoolers cost a bit and hybrid/uprated turbos are expensive, but add them to the RS and you`re looking at about 200+ bhp. As I`ve stated before, I`ve had this car for ...

mokeyat 04.12.2007 · Read full review
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I love my Turbo

Advantages: modifyable, good looking, fast
Disadvantages: dear to run

Last year I bought a H reg Escort RS Turbo and "I LOVE IT". Its fast its reliable and it looks amazing. I paid £3000.00 and it was the best money I have every spent. I have added a full system scorpion exhaust, a pipercross induction kit, a gorgeous souding dump valve and dropped it on its arse. It looks the business and sounds it too. I would recommend any young person to buy one of these cars. I admit because it gas been lowered it isn't the comfiest ...

bobble14 09.08.2000 · Read full review
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RS TURBO SHED!!!

Advantages: Quick Quick and Quicker
Disadvantages: Noisy noisy and Noisier still!!!

...always wanted to own a Ford Escort RS Turbo. When I was 25 I finally realised my dream and bought a clapped out G reg Black RS Turbo. What a shed and to think I sold my K Reg Fiesta RS 1800I to get it!!!It was quick but noisy, unreliable kept breaking down, etc. I bought a K & N air filter for it and it was exactly the same but noisier!!! No more performance!!!I sold it to some mug in the end for 3 grand which cheered me up no end. I now have a Nissan ...

andycharger 02.08.2000 · Read full review
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