This style of car advertising should be bought back immediately... just add: Porn music, handbrake turns, shagging birds on passenger seat, jumps, crazy body roll, near misses, 180 power slides, wheel spins and 2 speed fresh air vents.. ha ha
Fond memories of being 17 and thrashing the guts out of my Dad's 1978 Escort 1.3L whenever he let me borrow it. Now the boot is on the other foot and I'm giving my own son the big ear about driving sensibly and looking after my motor.
Watching the last part of this ad from 5:27 brought tears to my eyes for reasons unknown. Back in the day, 1992, I remember driving this car, a beige mk 2, 2.0 liter Escort Brenda which I borrowed from my late uncle an ex rally racer with a port polished engine and Webber carb to victory in a friendly drag race against a bmw 318i coincidentally driven by one of my rival suitors to the girl we were courting! Unfortunately, he eventually ended up with the girl which I suspected was due to his wealthy parents. But the fact prevails that I kicked his ass in that race! (Teary eyed as I’m writing now!)
my first car in 1980 I was earning £35 a week landscaping saved up £150 for a mint 13cc light blue off the local garage and had it for 3 years loved it great memories
Was my second car, a 1976 1.1 Pop Plus - Cloth seats and a Heated Rear window, people Today would laugh at what we used to get in a car. My first car was a MkI Cortina 1.5 deluxe
It's crash testing. All those stylishly thin roof pillars, flat noses, thin doors and flat surfaces means terrible EuroNCap scores. The roof pillars on the current Focus are designed so a joyrider can clip the curb, fly off the top of a motorway underpass, land on the roof and still run away unscratched. The doors can take side-impacts from lorries. The crumple zones can absorb the impact of a crash far more easily, and if you plough into a pedestrian, that pedestrian can roll off the bonnet without breaking their neck.
Ford has made some nice cars over the years, including the Escort MK2 Ghia and the MK3 Ghia. Both those cars were great, but the Escort MK4 and MK5 was the beginnings of F.O.R.D. Losing its way, especially when it closed down its huge manufacturing facility at Ford, Dagenham U.K. But a lot of manufacturers have had similar fates, with increased competition, stringent safety laws to abide by which can change the overall look of a car and the way it handles the road. But if Ford can recapture it’s heyday in some way, without designing, tacky retro looking cars, it might just be onto a winner. But electric cars are the future, but they just don’t sound the same as a combustion engine running, often, which gave each Ford unique exhaust sounds, when you started up your car.
My mate had a 1600 Sport. Ripped out the 1600, bunged in a stage 3 prepped 1300 lump with two big Webers (had to ditch the brake servo to fit the carbs). Did 15 to the gallon and flexed the floor pan on the torque. Went like shit off a stick and no fookin brakes. Mad.
I own a '79 RS2000 and I wish the suspension was that good as shown in the video. What happens to those eggs feels like my spine at times. Still can't beat about fun a Mk2 Escort is to drive though.
Who needs a Touareg to pull a jet huh? Just hook up your Esky and away you go! Oh, and I'm going to try that cigarette lighter thing next time I take a girl out in the car. She seemed to find it a hell of a turn-on!
The square headlamps always appeared on the GL and Ghia models - it was from the start of 1979 when the L gained the square lights, when the range had a slight cosmetic makeover.
1:54 Lost my virginity in a Mk2 Escort haha! My girlfriend wasn't quite so glamorous, but not bad either ;-) My review: not enough room on the back seat for a comfortable shag, but I didn't care.
I'm sure the Escort Mk2 cabin's filtration system would have taken care of any foul odour issues. If not, the gentleman would have to wait another 7 years before the launch of the Ford Sierra to ensure foul odour free/ fart free motoring!
The Golf looks 20 years newer!!! 😂😂😂 And the contrast with today is amazing; now one would never show a car skidding to highlight its handling or safety prowess....
I am.48 years old and I wonder why this car design is so appealing to me. Sadly the new Ford models today like Focus has no semblance to MK2, rear wheel drive and timeless design esp the tail lamps.
Escort MK2 was made in Halewood, UK; Saarlouis, FRG; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Cork, Ireland; Nazareth, Israel; Homebush, Australia; Wiri, New Zealand and Pretoria, South Africa.
I remembered when ford Australia switched to Japan for the replacement lasers of all kinds 1981-2002.we were not to see another European in the class for 21 years.
Great video. For the first 2 minutes thought I was watching an old porn movie! And who needs a Van when you can fit that much luggage in an old Escort at 2:38 Got a suspicion all that stuff didn't actually make it into the boot. His bird must have been high maintenance assuming it's her luggage, or was he using it as ballast to stop the rear end sliding out? Also when he was loading it with luggage the car had Rostyles, but pulling the plane *cough* it suddenly had Steels.
Wonderful vid from back in the day.... I had three of the four higher performance models.... 1600 sport RS mexico & RS 2000....I sure wish I had kept them....😂
Tosspot you have a very apt username, it's obvious you don't know what the heck your talking about when you slag off the mk2 escort and it's style. If you look at most of the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today's rallys and Motorsport there's still a lot of mk2 escorts that can still pull there weight and still win rallies yet, maybe if you were around when these cars were released and on our roads, you'd know where I'm coming from.
I was 17 in 1975 and we used to sell these Escorts by the bucket load, but I just could not see the appeal of them. They had no kerb appeal, just square boxes with nasty plastic grilles and bumpers. I suppose they did gain their Popularity as a Rally car. Of that I can't dispute, I just hated the look of them.
I'm afraid to say that I am one of those people who hated the styling of the mk2 Escort. And my father used to sell them back in the 70's, and I used to valet them for him. They had the aerodynamics of a brick, just no shape at all. The previous mk1 Escort was far better looking. I can, however, see where you are coming from, they were, and still are, very successful on the Rally Scene, so that's why they became so popular. The base model was even called the Escort Popular, so they did have some appeal I suppose.
***** Even though I dislike the mk2 Escort, to say that it was just a face lifted mk1 is not quite true. The two cars had entirely different body shells. Personally I preferred the look of the mk1 with its more rounded styling. The mk2 was a much squarer boxier shape, which I disliked. Ford did the same thing with the Cortina, the mk3 was curvy and quite a good looking car. Then in 1976 Ford released the mk4 and, just like the mk2 Escort, they took away all the curves, and ended up with a squarer shaped car which I also didn't like. But then, that's just my opinion, plenty of people bought them, both the Escort and Cortina. My late father made a living out of selling such cars in the 1970's.
Thanks for telling me about this Wodge! Takes me back to 80's when I was a nut! By the way, that colour is not Signal Orange, it is Signal Red - that horrible milky, pinky gay colour that belongs on a nissan micra!
lovely car ;D have a ford escort mk2 1.3l 4door :) but these escort has square frontlights, didn't they come in 1977 when they did the modellchange or something?
The Mk2 was the shortest lived Escort with a production life of just over 5 1/2 years, which was largely due to it being little more than a revised Mk1. By comparison, the Mk1 was in production for nearly 7 years, the Mk3/4 for 10, the Mk5/6 for 12.
@Galaxie Invader Ford internally doesn't recognise the Mk3 and "Mk4" as separate generations. They both have the same platform code ("Erika"). As does the Mk5/6.
@@johndrake2729 it still looked ok but it was very uneconomical on fuel and the interior was out of date compared to newer models like the Astra. A friend had a late model 1600 Ghia which was lovely but the MK3 looked a lot more modern and was nicer inside and generally faster with the OHC engines. I remember being so excited when it came out, there was one parked out near my home before the launch. I guess the owner worked for Ford. Probably only the MK1/2 gets recognised as a classic now though.
We sold these Escorts by the bucket load back in the 1970's and I still just cannot see what appeal they had back then. They had the aerodynamics of a brick, and the "styling" of a brick. Yet, for some reason, the youth of the day, thought these were "the cars" to be seen in. I HATED THEM, and still do. The only appeal they appeared to have, as far I can see, was that they seemed to do well on the Rally scene. But as a road car, they just looked dreadful.
My folks always bought a GS in the 70s though I remember them having a Fulvia, I always use to wish why could n't we just have an ordinary car like a Marina or an Escort :/ how little I knew.
Gary Dunn Same year the Fiat Ritmo/Strada was present to public as well as the GSA. Both, Fiat and Citroen, were quite futuristic and with better handling (front wheel drive and hydro-pneumatic for the GSA) but not so fun to drive as the rear wheel drive Escort except perhaps the Ritmo 105 TC.
I know exactly what you mean! - I had a concourse mk2 'N' reg in riviera blue back in 1987 and swapped it for a kn*ckered Sherpa, because some @&$£ said there was money in scrapping aluminium. There was, if you could get any!
![Ford Escort Mk2 | RALLY TRIBUTE! [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/b26iT-ZNEpY/mqdefault.jpg)
This style of car advertising should be bought back immediately... just add:
Porn music, handbrake turns, shagging birds on passenger seat, jumps, crazy body roll, near misses, 180 power slides, wheel spins and 2 speed fresh air vents.. ha ha
Banbury litho absolutely. Car ads all about apps.
And Police chase .. 😂
Fond memories of being 17 and thrashing the guts out of my Dad's 1978 Escort 1.3L whenever he let me borrow it. Now the boot is on the other foot and I'm giving my own son the big ear about driving sensibly and looking after my motor.
"No more fumbling when you need a little warmth" yep.....the Escort is for me!
Mine too. Mk2 Escort. The legendary king of rally racing.
One of the best looking cars in them days bring the escort back
Watching the last part of this ad from 5:27 brought tears to my eyes for reasons unknown.
Back in the day, 1992, I remember driving this car, a beige mk 2, 2.0 liter Escort Brenda which I borrowed from my late uncle an ex rally racer with a port polished engine and Webber carb to victory in a friendly drag race against a bmw 318i coincidentally driven by one of my rival suitors to the girl we were courting! Unfortunately, he eventually ended up with the girl which I suspected was due to his wealthy parents. But the fact prevails that I kicked his ass in that race!
(Teary eyed as I’m writing now!)
my first car in 1980 I was earning £35 a week landscaping saved up £150 for a mint 13cc light blue off the local garage and had it for 3 years loved it great memories
£150 for a mk 2 escort? It couldn't be more than 5 year old
Was my second car, a 1976 1.1 Pop Plus - Cloth seats and a Heated Rear window, people Today would laugh at what we used to get in a car. My first car was a MkI Cortina 1.5 deluxe
A lot of interesting looking cars from the 70s, especially Ford and GM's European divisions must have had some great designers imo
Why can't we have cars that look like this anymore? They are all ugly devil-faced blobs on wheels now! Bloody aerodynamics! Pah!
I know right! The 1970dodge charger R/T looks 100 times better than the 2014 one
It's crash testing. All those stylishly thin roof pillars, flat noses, thin doors and flat surfaces means terrible EuroNCap scores. The roof pillars on the current Focus are designed so a joyrider can clip the curb, fly off the top of a motorway underpass, land on the roof and still run away unscratched. The doors can take side-impacts from lorries. The crumple zones can absorb the impact of a crash far more easily, and if you plough into a pedestrian, that pedestrian can roll off the bonnet without breaking their neck.
***** i dare say u are from the uk then?
So you can spend hours trying to find yours in a crowded car park 😀
PAH!
Bought a new 1300 Ghia in 1979. Sky blue with a black vinyl roof. Loved that car.
I like the van models of the mk1&2 Escorts.
escort is a good car!
Brilliant! Brought back memories of first driving experiences in my dad's 1.3L.
AWESOME, had a 1300 in blue, 2 door.
Ford has made some nice cars over the years, including the Escort MK2 Ghia and the MK3 Ghia. Both those cars were great, but the Escort MK4 and MK5 was the beginnings of F.O.R.D. Losing its way, especially when it closed down its huge manufacturing facility at Ford, Dagenham U.K. But a lot of manufacturers have had similar fates, with increased competition, stringent safety laws to abide by which can change the overall look of a car and the way it handles the road. But if Ford can recapture it’s heyday in some way, without designing, tacky retro looking cars, it might just be onto a winner. But electric cars are the future, but they just don’t sound the same as a combustion engine running, often, which gave each Ford unique exhaust sounds, when you started up your car.
My mate had a 1600 Sport. Ripped out the 1600, bunged in a stage 3 prepped 1300 lump with two big Webers (had to ditch the brake servo to fit the carbs). Did 15 to the gallon and flexed the floor pan on the torque. Went like shit off a stick and no fookin brakes. Mad.
I own a '79 RS2000 and I wish the suspension was that good as shown in the video. What happens to those eggs feels like my spine at times.
Still can't beat about fun a Mk2 Escort is to drive though.
I'm sold, I'm saving up for one of these so I''ll get all the birds like him
Hope you get your 'cigar lighter' to pop up then....
Too bad we didn't have those Escorts in the states. We had to wait until fall 1980!
I remember the Ford Escort of this year. Quite a good car.
Who needs a Touareg to pull a jet huh? Just hook up your Esky and away you go!
Oh, and I'm going to try that cigarette lighter thing next time I take a girl out in the car. She seemed to find it a hell of a turn-on!
The square headlamps always appeared on the GL and Ghia models - it was from the start of 1979 when the L gained the square lights, when the range had a slight cosmetic makeover.
I think the round lights look better
1:54 Lost my virginity in a Mk2 Escort haha! My girlfriend wasn't quite so glamorous, but not bad either ;-) My review: not enough room on the back seat for a comfortable shag, but I didn't care.
GRAHAMAUS 😂
In Australia the 2 litre Pinto ohc engine made it a stormer. And a classy shape. The boot was huge.
changes the air every 20 seconds? Thats a lot time to endure a rogue fart!!
I'm sure the Escort Mk2 cabin's filtration system would have taken care of any foul odour issues. If not, the gentleman would have to wait another 7 years before the launch of the Ford Sierra to ensure foul odour free/ fart free motoring!
Lol Lol Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The mk2 has always been the best looking escort and so tunable
There's no way all those cases fit into that escort boot 🤣
Gorgeous car.
I had an Aussie model Escort. 1977.
2 litre OHC cam. Loved it. Collectable now.
The Golf looks 20 years newer!!! 😂😂😂
And the contrast with today is amazing; now one would never show a car skidding to highlight its handling or safety prowess....
I am.48 years old and I wonder why this car design is so appealing to me. Sadly the new Ford models today like Focus has no semblance to MK2, rear wheel drive and timeless design esp the tail lamps.
No way he got all those cases in the boot!.
I have an mk2 Escort, and indeed, they don't fit at all 😂😂
@@maxeluy me too
If only they'd bothered painting them underneath bloody rotboxes!! Solid rear axle, McPherson struts..Same old same old from uncle Henry.
And leaf springs. The Avenger (which this car was clearly copied from) sat on rear coil springs 5 years earlier.
I had the 1977 Aussie assembly 2 door GL with Rally pack. Including the 2 litre Pinto OHC cam engine. It was a great little car.
I'm convinced! Where can I buy my ford escort? Everything we dooooo is driven by youuuuu!
My first car, loved it. made down the road in Halewood :)
14 Morris Marina owners disliked this, as there are only around 14 Marinas left they shouldn't be difficult to track down.
ONE OF MY DREAMCARS WITH KADETT C 1973-1979
The best escort ever made is the MK2
Great car when it started . God bless Honda .
love it takes you back
Love the bow tie!
Great Video !!! I bet the pc brigade would shun on such things today!
I had a 1.6l escort DBG 75T a great car..
Proud owner of a Mk1 and a Mk 2 :D
Dean Strachan same
great ad,became a flintstones car in 6 years
A two speed blower. pwaaarrr and goes all the way.
Escort MK2 was made in Halewood, UK; Saarlouis, FRG; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Cork, Ireland; Nazareth, Israel; Homebush, Australia; Wiri, New Zealand and Pretoria, South Africa.
I have 6 Escorts, love them like my kids! Love the sexual enuendoes, bring back the 70s!
is it a car or a fkn plane!!! ..gotta luv these old tv ads
Escort amazing cars
I remembered when ford Australia switched to Japan for the replacement lasers of all kinds 1981-2002.we were not to see another European in the class for 21 years.
Love the signature tune
Great video.
For the first 2 minutes thought I was watching an old porn movie!
And who needs a Van when you can fit that much luggage in an old Escort at 2:38 Got a suspicion all that stuff didn't actually make it into the boot. His bird must have been high maintenance assuming it's her luggage, or was he using it as ballast to stop the rear end sliding out?
Also when he was loading it with luggage the car had Rostyles, but pulling the plane *cough* it suddenly had Steels.
RS2OOO I concur no way all that got in there
AHAHAJA! Me too. Thought it was porn!
Best cars ever made!
Wonderful vid from back in the day....
I had three of the four higher performance models....
1600 sport RS mexico & RS 2000....I sure wish I had kept them....😂
I used to have an Escort mk2 1.3L 1980 V in Roman Bronze Metallic.
lol did the song at the end which is kinda funky btw say, ford helps you spend with ease, ford helps you save your knees !!!!!!!! :D paaahaaahaaaaaaa
love the advert ty i have a mk 2. 3 door.there worth a few quid now..;-) only paid £70 for it few years back daytona yellow...all original.
i like it
"The air extract grills fitted neatly into the rear pillars" lol
All that in a car. My life is so empty :(
Rather have than Mk Golf
I LIKE IT... AND MK2
The mk II RS2000 .... probably the only sports car to be available in three shades of beige 🤨
I can confirm everything in this video.
Be singing that all day . . . 😁😁 class,love it 💪💪💪💪
Tosspot you have a very apt username, it's obvious you don't know what the heck your talking about when you slag off the mk2 escort and it's style. If you look at most of the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today's rallys and Motorsport there's still a lot of mk2 escorts that can still pull there weight and still win rallies yet, maybe if you were around when these cars were released and on our roads, you'd know where I'm coming from.
I was 17 in 1975 and we used to sell these Escorts by the bucket load, but I
just could not see the appeal of them. They had no kerb appeal, just square
boxes with nasty plastic grilles and bumpers. I suppose they did gain their
Popularity as a Rally car. Of that I can't dispute, I just hated the look of them.
I'm afraid to say that I am one of those people who hated the styling of the
mk2 Escort. And my father used to sell them back in the 70's, and I used
to valet them for him. They had the aerodynamics of a brick, just no shape
at all. The previous mk1 Escort was far better looking. I can, however, see
where you are coming from, they were, and still are, very successful on the Rally Scene, so that's why they became so popular. The base model was
even called the Escort Popular, so they did have some appeal I suppose.
***** Even though I dislike the mk2 Escort, to say that it was just a face
lifted mk1 is not quite true. The two cars had entirely different body shells.
Personally I preferred the look of the mk1 with its more rounded styling. The
mk2 was a much squarer boxier shape, which I disliked. Ford did the same
thing with the Cortina, the mk3 was curvy and quite a good looking car. Then
in 1976 Ford released the mk4 and, just like the mk2 Escort, they took away
all the curves, and ended up with a squarer shaped car which I also didn't like.
But then, that's just my opinion, plenty of people bought them, both the Escort
and Cortina. My late father made a living out of selling such cars in the 1970's.
I like the old Escorts but don't believe it could pull that plane
I don't know about 'pulling planes' but I was also under the impression from the advertising that this car was also good at pulling the birds!
We pulled a 7,5t fully loaded Ford truck with the 1,3MK 2 to start the truck. Worked, but it smelled from the clutch a little bit😂
“Handling, more precise steering,” as it corners on its wing mirrors.
Sexiest car ever made :)
All escort are sexy :3
Five years after the Hillman Avenger and they were still using leaf spring rear suspension instead of coil springs. Unforgivable.
the instrument panel looks like a award winner (which it is) lol £15 down the scrapyard looooooooool
Thanks for telling me about this Wodge! Takes me back to 80's when I was a nut!
By the way, that colour is not Signal Orange, it is Signal Red - that horrible milky, pinky gay colour that belongs on a nissan micra!
Goes hard ngl
lovely car ;D have a ford escort mk2 1.3l 4door :)
but these escort has square frontlights, didn't they come in 1977 when they did the modellchange or something?
its platic with chrome on it goes over the years ;-)
I WISHD ID HAD 2 MK2 ESCORTS
I LIKE IT
When did they start using the blue oval on the Mk 2's?
i wishd id had some day mk2 escort-75 green and 75 red. 76-78 white to yellow
The Mk2 was the shortest lived Escort with a production life of just over 5 1/2 years, which was largely due to it being little more than a revised Mk1. By comparison, the Mk1 was in production for nearly 7 years, the Mk3/4 for 10, the Mk5/6 for 12.
@Galaxie Invader Ford internally doesn't recognise the Mk3 and "Mk4" as separate generations. They both have the same platform code ("Erika"). As does the Mk5/6.
@Galaxie Invader whatever.....😫
The Mk 2 looked modern enough to last a few more years, but it would have stood out like a sore thumb among its FWD rivals. Hence Erika.
@@johndrake2729 it still looked ok but it was very uneconomical on fuel and the interior was out of date compared to newer models like the Astra.
A friend had a late model 1600 Ghia which was lovely but the MK3 looked a lot more modern and was nicer inside and generally faster with the OHC engines. I remember being so excited when it came out, there was one parked out near my home before the launch. I guess the owner worked for Ford. Probably only the MK1/2 gets recognised as a classic now though.
Im only 17 and this old video fucking scares the shit out of me
I WISHD ID HAD 5 ESCORT MK2S
great wee cars ,,, dam entertaining advert!
i like it. i wishd id had 2 mk2 escorts green and white
I've thrashed and crashed a few of those in my time ;)
His hair is stronger than the car.
People had patience for 10 minute adverts 😅
I honestly don't think this was played on TV, but rather at showrooms next to the cars.
I believe the square head lamps were introduced as a face lift in 1978. Or did the Ghia (as shown in the video) have squares alle the time from '75?
great fun! My parents had a Roman Bronze 1300GL (with sports wheels) for best part of 15 years, I had to get one myself!
moi j'ai la chance d'en avoir une dans l'état d'origine et presque comme neuve
I LIKED
i like it i wishd id had 3 mk2 escorts some day 2 green ones and 1 red
I wish they made a 'proper' Mk2 wagon as well instead of using Mk1 shell with hybrid Mk1/Mk2 front panels
Así se lanza un producto !
i wishd id had some day green mk2 escort and yellow mk2 escort
Is that Lewis Collins from the "Professionals" in the ad, it does look like him with
longer hair.
No I'm pretty sure it's not him.
i love this car!!!
We sold these Escorts by the bucket load back in the 1970's and I still just cannot
see what appeal they had back then. They had the aerodynamics of a brick, and
the "styling" of a brick. Yet, for some reason, the youth of the day, thought these
were "the cars" to be seen in. I HATED THEM, and still do. The only appeal they
appeared to have, as far I can see, was that they seemed to do well on the Rally
scene. But as a road car, they just looked dreadful.
My folks always bought a GS in the 70s though I remember them having a Fulvia, I always use to wish why could n't we just have an ordinary car like a Marina or an Escort :/ how little I knew.
Gary Dunn I passed my driving test in one ! but they were very tinny and unrefined, like most fords really.
Gary Dunn Same year the Fiat Ritmo/Strada was present to public as well as the GSA. Both, Fiat and Citroen, were quite futuristic and with better handling (front wheel drive and hydro-pneumatic for the GSA) but not so fun to drive as the rear wheel drive Escort except perhaps the Ritmo 105 TC.
I know exactly what you mean! - I had a concourse mk2 'N' reg in riviera blue back in 1987 and swapped it for a kn*ckered Sherpa, because some @&$£ said there was money in scrapping aluminium. There was, if you could get any!
i wishd id had green mk2 rs2000 and black rs2000