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Ford Escort Archive
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Curbside Classic: 1994 Ford Escort – Success And Shame
Posted on September 13, 2024 | 70 Comments(first posted 4/2/2014) When is a world car not a world car? When it’s Japanese. I can hear our readers’ responses already: Ford didn’t call the 1991 Escort a world […] -
Curbside Classic: 1988-94 Ford Tempo & Mercury Topaz – Sabotaging Yourself Is Easy
Posted on September 6, 2021 | 82 Comments(first posted 9/6/2015) Compact. Intermediate. Full-size. Once upon a time, it used to be so simple: if a Nova was too small, you got a Chevelle. Need more space? There’s […] -
CC Outtake: Getting Stuck Behind a 1985½ Ford Escort L – Literally
Posted on May 24, 2019 | 43 CommentsIntroduced in 1980, the North American Ford Escort (not to be confused with the car of the same name that was available in Europe since 1968) was an instant hit […] -
CC Capsule: 1982-85 Ford Escort XR3i – If You’re Looking For A Good Time…
Posted on November 12, 2018 | 38 CommentsThere are some old cars you won’t be surprised to see still on the roads two or three decades later. Camrys and Corollas, for example. Old pickup trucks. Exotics. Conservative […] -
Missing Out? The American-Branded Cars You Can Only Buy In China
Posted on March 1, 2018 | 37 CommentsOh Americans, you must have thought you were so special. The European and Asian automakers spent years developing models specifically for your market. Cars like the Honda Pilot and Toyota […] -
CC Capsule: 1994 Mercury Tracer – Good Humor
Posted on January 12, 2017 | 34 CommentsI’m willing to bet at least all of us have humored another individual with at least one insincere compliment, word of encouragement, or token of appreciation in the moment before. Whether […] -
Curbside Capsule: 1994-96 Ford Laser Lynx – The Sun Sets In The East
Posted on April 14, 2016 | 34 CommentsIn 2014, the Ford Motor Company was the world’s 6th-largest automaker with 6.32 million unit sales. In January of this year, this same global juggernaut announced it was pulling out […] -
CC Outtake: Trying To Be The Wrong Merc
Posted on February 25, 2016 | 23 CommentsFord did sell a rebadged version of the second generation Escort as the Mercury Tracer here in North America, but appears this Escort owner is trying to “open new doors” […] -
Curbside Classic: 1981-85 Ford KA/KB Laser – A Beam of Light
Posted on May 12, 2015 | 57 CommentsYou can add Australia to the list of global markets that received a better compact Ford in the 1980s than North America did. Ford’s much ballyhooed “global” Escort was so […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1997 Mercury Tracer LS – Vanishing Trace
Posted on May 7, 2015 | 56 CommentsPoor Mercury. While the brand may not have been treated to the same levels of uniqueness from Ford and Lincoln that other “near-luxury” brands such as Buick, Chrysler, and Oldsmobile were […] -
Cars of a Lifetime: 1997 Ford Escort wagon – The Dull Commuter
Posted on May 18, 2014 | 36 CommentsAfter several years living in the big city, where the combination of an old car and public transit worked just fine, my family and I moved to an outlying suburb. […]