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1981 Ford Escort SS: Built To Take On The World, And Doin' It!
It's hard to believe there was ever a time without Ford Escorts in North America, but the '81 was the very first (and, miserable as those early Escorts were, they were much better cars than the Pintos they replaced). The SS was the top-of-the-line Escort for '81, with a whopping 65 horsepower driving the front wheels. Thanks to a short flash of a baseball score (and super-obsessed baseball geeks), we know this advertisement was aired on May 23, 1981.
classic ad watch
Dinner Is Served: 1991 Ford Escort GT
With its crypto-Billy Idol soundtrack and jiggly graphics, this ad for the '91 Escort stands with one foot in the Eighties and the other in the Nineties. Check out that extraordinarily plastic-looking grille, which warned the unwary of the 127 horses under the GT's hood. Perhaps Team Make:Way is onto something with their choice of an early-90s Escort as their 24 Hours of LeMons entry!
24 hours of lemons
It's On! Make Magazine's LeMons Team Disses Black Metal V8olvo!
We were trying to take the high road with this racecar thing, not thump our chests too hard about the way our Ford 302-powered Volvo 244 was going to annihilate the competition at Altamont... but then the gentleman in the photo above, Jason Torchinsky of Team Make:Way, decided to throw down the gauntlet with this taunting email:And, yes, we'll be at Altamont— we're looking forward to helping push your car off the track and console your sobbings with the gracious tone of a victorNow, Mr. Torchinsky owns a Reliant Scimitar, so you figure he'd know a thing or two about futility.
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moment of zen
Jalopnik Moment Of Zen: Tahoe Edition
The editor of our sister site obsessed with gadgets spotted this here '94 Ford Escort GT up in Tahoe. Yes, that Escort was completely encased in snow and only popped out one side as it began to melt street-side. At first we thought the plow found it, until we saw the side mirror was still intact. So fellow Jalops — what kind of damage do we think this snow-encased Escort'll have once the rest of the snow thaws?
racing
Much as we're rooting for the front-drive underdog in the Pumpkin Smash enduro, this Escort has some handling issue in addition to its inability to take Monte Carlo-style punishment. Jonny caught some nice stills of the most recent mishap, and here's the video for y'all. At the moment, we're on a break from the racing action while the kids have a costume contest; looks like a kid dressed as Dale Senior is the crowd favorite.
Front-Drive Traction Fails The Escort... Again
Much as we're rooting for the front-drive underdog in the Pumpkin Smash enduro, this Escort has some handling issue in addition to its inability to take Monte Carlo-style punishment. Jonny caught some nice stills of the most recent mishap, and here's the video for y'all. At the moment, we're on a break from the racing action while the kids have a costume contest; looks like a kid dressed as Dale Senior is the crowd favorite.
choose your eternity
We're not really surprised that the goat-damaged Torino fastback trounced the Katrina Special Road Runner in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll; after all, it's not fair to put a Malaise Era car up against a 60s fastback. Today we're going to get all green on your fossil-fuel-swilling asses and make you choose between a couple of cool- yet totally nightmarish- electric cars! We'd all love driving a Tesla, of course, but why pay all that money when you can build your own DC demon?
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PCH, Electric Edition: Electric Escort or Lectric Leopard?
We're not really surprised that the goat-damaged Torino fastback trounced the Katrina Special Road Runner in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll; after all, it's not fair to put a Malaise Era car up against a 60s fastback. Today we're going to get all green on your fossil-fuel-swilling asses and make you choose between a couple of cool- yet totally nightmarish- electric cars! We'd all love driving a Tesla, of course, but why pay all that money when you can build your own DC demon?More »
could this be ford's next retro-mobile?
Ford Escort MK1 Concept
One of the most well loved performance cars in Europe, the Ford Escort never caught on stateside. Now, an Automotive Design graduate from Coventry University is trying to change that. Rajesh Kutty's Ford Escort MK1 concept brings modern retro design to the classic coke-bottle shape. The 1967 original featured downsized design cues from American muscle cars, throwing a few original ideas into the mix. The Mk1's dog bone grill is carried over, but hides behind driving lights inspired by the Escort's rally success. The concept's shape and headlights in particular remind us of the Connaught Type-D, could the original Escort have been an influence on that car's design? One more picture after the jump. More »
hoon
Tirade of the Day: Here's Why We're Losing The Hoon Race
So you want to know why those damn Lada-drivin' Scandinavians and oil-money-flush Arabs are seriously stomping the good ole USA in the Hoonlympics these days? Why the Hoon of the Day entrants have been a bit weak lately? Well, goddammit? I'll tell you why, buddy: we're getting soft! It's like berserkers sacking your coastal towns and the OPEC embargo all rolled into one hoon-miliating package, while our hoons squander their potential by simply bashing perfectly jump-worthy cars against the mock-angry background of a frat-metal soundtrack. Here's the kind of video you mostly wade through these days when scouring the tubes for righteous hoonage... More »
custom cars/hot rods
Dwarf Prostitute? No! Short Escort!
The Mighty Mr. Forney sent us this wacky shortened Escort RS 1600 built by some wacky fookers in Blighty. We are in awe. We are scratching our head so hard we'll likely hit cerebrum in four-to-six minutes. More »
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Hoon of the Day: Swedish Escort Service
The days are short and the aqvavit is strong in Sweden, and the hoons there sometimes need a little pick-me-up to retain the will to live during the wintertime. So, they fire up the hot-rodded Escort and make with the jumping. And no wimpy railroad grades or hills that require a velocity-sapping uphill chug to reach the jump; these here Scandihoonians have a nice ramp setup with a long flat approach that lets them get very impressive hang time. 10 bonus points for beating the piss out of a non-beater car and another 5 for the Hayseed Dixie soundtrack. Add another 5 for the good camera work and editing and we get a Hoon-O-Meter reading of 38. More »
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Damn You April Fools Day: Ford to Reintroduce the 'Scort? Not
Even a day after, the whole April fool's day deal is infecting our newsgathering brains. We were thisclose to posting on a Car and Driver report that Ford was planning to rebrand its Focus as an Escort. Then we got to a quote from Mark Fields, who said Escort fans had been disappointed their beloved 'Scort had been done-away with. A few geffaws later we were off the case. But we still had to call out C&D for a well-executed Foolish piece, despite April Fools day having a really short shelf life and us having our Fools antennae locked and loaded. We did have a great joke about the Fusion becoming the Contour, but that's blown now. More »
11:54 AM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Mike Spinelli
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Latest by Nightwing: Pinto????? Maybe, but Escort is a better sounding name than Pinto. I can understand why Ford didn't choose to go with that name. The car did look better in person. more »
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Breaking! Anna Nicole Smith News Tangentially Involving Cars!
According to the celeb-watchers at TMZ, John "Texas" O'Quinn, the lawyer for Virgie Arthur, Anna Nicole Smith's mother, collapsed in court just under an hour ago. TMZ says,"It was unclear what the status of his health was, but a witness provided a Luna bar for relief, as the judge clamored for orange juice."So what the heck does this have to do with cars? Glad you asked — you see, in addition to being a
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