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Most of the surviving Ford Escorts in the UK are the ones built in Saarlouis, West Germany.The British ones are mostly gone.
My Focus is an excellent car, for what it is. It was built in Saarlois, too. My status-obsessed neighbour was going on about his ‘German’ BMW. I had to point out my car was German, and his was South African!
Remind us what your Focus is worth v the Mk1 Cortina examples I posted.
My Focus has done 140,000 miles without anything other than scheduled servicing and some new suspension bushes. I don’t think you’d get anywhere near that with a 'tina. A Mk 1 Cortina is an antique…the only reason it’s valuable is because most of its fellows rusted away decades ago.
I’m old enough to remember what those Fords were like when they were new…as soon as the temperature fell below freezing they would have to be hand-cranked in the morning. I can leave my car for two weeks in the middle of winter, with the alarm and electronics draining the battery, and it will start first touch of the key.