Focus

[RST-Steve]

Bit tasty! 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Focus-Cosworth-A-Special-Car-Not-an-ST-or-RS_W0QQitemZ300329298963QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item45ed056c13&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A7%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C293%3A2%7C294%3A50

[cozmeister]

That's as maybe, but it's not an RS, so has no hope of achieving the thirty grand price tag regardless of the engine under the bonnet.  IMO, a classic example of Cosworth tax gone silly.

I'll take the engine, but it really doesn't belong in that shell...they should've turned the Duratec RS around 90 degrees instead.

[RST-Steve]

agreed, not something i would want but a bit of a track weapon all the same

.. a LOT of money tho despite how much it must have cost to build!

[matt]

£30,000      

I would say even £20,000 is over the top.

imo he doesn't want to sell it at all hes just trying his luck.

[Fireball]

so they've gotten a tuned escort/sierra base and dropped a focus shell onto it, essentially. Not worth that much, even slightly

[cozmeister]

Indeed - the most expensive cut'n'shut known to man.

IMO YB's don't belong in anything other than a Sierra, or at a push, it's fine if they're shoehorned into a shonky Mk5 Escort shell (at the factory, I might add).   

[rstaaron]

Indeed - the most expensive cut'n'shut known to man.

IMO YB's don't belong in anything other than a Sierra, or at a push, it's fine if they're shoehorned into a shonky Mk5 Escort shell (at the factory, I might add).   

So no YB'd Capris, Mk1/2 Escorts, Anglias etc. ?

[Fireball]

Indeed - the most expensive cut'n'shut known to man.

IMO YB's don't belong in anything other than a Sierra, or at a push, it's fine if they're shoehorned into a shonky Mk5 Escort shell (at the factory, I might add).   

So no YB'd Capris, Mk1/2 Escorts, Anglias etc. ?

By definition, all of those cars are porn anyway aaron 

[cozmeister]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that they're necessarily a bad thing - they can prove to be perfectly capable machines (so could anything with a YB and thousands of £££ spent on the suspension), but everyone's boat is floated differently.  I see it like this - When was the last time you saw a BDA or Lotus twincam powering a Sierra?  Both perfectly capable engines, so how come Sierras get the short straw and get scrapped for the engine?

I just don't like Sierras getting broken, particularly Cossies which generally get squashed after the engine's taken out.

Put it a slightly different way - Rolls Royce Olympus engine.  No-one's ever stuck one in a Cessna, which would be the airborne equivalent of a YB powered Mk1 Fiesta.

The Essex and Cologne are perfectly suited to the Capri - and as you know, so is the Pinto with a big fat carb.