Ford Sierra for sale - £75,000.00

[Welly]

Have a look at this rare RS500 Cossie, the sale has ended but you can see the car on the link posted on the ebay add.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RS500-Coswort ... 6rk%3D2%26

[lozz]

Nice

But 75 grand


To save any more weird people wasting their time with stupid offers of a pound etc, anything much under the listed price is automatically rejected by ebay on my behalf, so they dont even reach me for consideration.


Hmm, and iwas going to see if he wanted to swap for a punto, idont think il bother askin him now, he seems very rude

[steve_earwig]

But it's a Sierra I suppose somebody somewhere thought it was worth the cash but I can think of a lot more interesting cars for that sort of money.

A quick Google later - http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/sea ... ars/page/4

Ffs I'm 4 pages in and I already found half a dozen more interesting and/or faster cars for that money or less that I'd rather own

[lozz]

Its a lovely motor Granted but,

ithink its abit far Fetched, Hes Alegedly refused 60k for it,

if it was as special as he Makes it out to be, Ford them selves More than likely wouid Buy it,

iknow of one Ford dealer that went out and Bought a mk1 escort for daft money just to put on Display in there Showroom,

[Welly]

Ford dealer that went out and Bought a mk1 escort for daft money just to put on Display in there Showroom,

Best place for it

[scotty73]

But it's a Sierra

Actually it's a Merkur XR4Ti







If your American.

[steve_earwig]

http://www.merkur.co.uk/ Do you mean Mercury?

[scotty73]

http://www.merkur.co.uk/ Do you mean Mercury?

No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur

I watched top gear us last night one of them were driving what we would call an XR4X4 or XR4i and the Cosworth was the expensive version if i remember right? they kept calling it the Merkur but it was basically like you say a bloody Sierra

[scotty73]

http://hooniverse.com/2012/06/18/it-loo ... you-a-car/

I been looking for a video of it but so far have only found this, check out the ford badge ... Looks good for 500 dollars compaired to the one on ebay.

[leestudd30]

Didn't the merkur have a turbo lump from a Mustang, was a 2.3 engine if I remember. I've been looking at this cossie for weeks, wish I had £20K!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C320998

[Welly]

My first few years of motoring was with Sierra's and Escrote's around 1989 with the company I worked for I got to drive all kinds of new stuff. The Sierra 1.8LX was particularly horid and would wallow and lurch about all over the place this was at the time Unleaded Petrol was being released and the Ford recommendation was to use full-fat LEADED petrol every 4 tank full's to keep the valves sweet

One of the Sierra's on the fleet was horibly abused from day one and did a 'party trick' every time you switched the engine off! - it would run-on for bloody ages and pinking badly as it did, emptying the carb in the process

I was put off the Ford brand for 20 years because of the Sierra, Escrote and Onion's

I like this one for sale, it's original and if someone loved those cars in their youth (but couldn't afford one but now can) would buy it so they can have the very best example - and why not? personally though I think £40K is more realistic?

[scotty73]

Didn't the merkur have a turbo lump from a Mustang, was a 2.3 engine if I remember. I've been looking at this cossie for weeks, wish I had £20K!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C320998

They were driving a 2.3 but i dont recal them saying it was a Mustang engine but your probably right... I've deleted the episode now so cant check if they said it and i wern't listening.

[puggy]

The RS500 was built in that number to homologate for saloon car racing
and were finished off by Aston Martin at Tickford so does kind of make them a
little special , 75k worth i'm not so sure but i do go along with welly's
theory if it was something you once aspired to and could now easily afford
would be nice to own .

[FarmerPug]

A 205 priced at £75,000
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C294906#

[Bailes1992]

XR4Ti is Americas version of our XR4i, it had a 2.3 turbo engine instead of our V6.