Someone tell me this is a bad idea....

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:23:24 +0000, SteveH boggled us with:

It's a bad idea.

It's an old Ford with a strangulated 1.6 CVH, the worst engine they ever made bar the V4. Saying that, I don't know a great deal about them other than test driving a couple before I decided a MK2 Golf GTi was a far, far better bet for the money. I expect the same still applies.

I clicked the link.

It turned to sold in front of my very eyes.

I quite liked that CVH engine - I drove an Escort with the 1.6, and found it a hoot, very smooth free reving, if a bit gutless. And I felt it worked well in the XR2, quite quick as I remember. All relative to the other cars I was driving at that time - Renault 18, Metros, Cortinas etc, whatever was in the company pool at that time (early 80s).

Rob

I didn't buy it.....

The engine is what put me off, to be honest - I had a 1.6 CVH in an Escort, with twin-choke carb.

One thing it was not is smooth or free revving.

Still love the looks of the MkII XR2, though.

The photos did a good job. Amazing how much glass cars used to have too.

Anyway ISTR you had a deep seated hatred of the blue oval from discussions on here in the past - has the Prius recalibrated your brain? :-)

Nah, always had a bit of a soft spot for their stuff from the 80s.

But it all went wrong from the MkIII Fester onwards.

My old man had an Escort with that CVH and a slushbox. It was fairly dreadful. Noisy, harsh, crappy 3 speed slushox.

It's a bad idea. It's a s**te old Ford.

Fraser

pretty gruff sounding motor, but it still did 60 in less than 9 seconds,

Performance wasn't at all bad, for the time, even with the aforementioned slushbox escort, but it did wound very rough. Escort didn't handle, either.