Ford Escort RS Turbo Review

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Ford Escort RS Turbo
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chalk's Review of Ford Escort RS Turbo

9th Dec 2003

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Practicality
    1 stars
  • Performance
    5 stars
  • Reliability
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Pure speed


Bad Points

Rust and cost


General Comments

My Ford Escort RS Turbo series 2 was an absolute beast.Untill I crashed it .I fitted everything possible,overall it cost me about 35k but it was worth it.It was cheap for what i got because it was all imports.I added a 90bhp turbo on top of a lot of other stuff. But the thing that really gave me the speed was the nitrous oxide.I also had a 3.0 and 4x4 conversion.I manged to force 575bhp out of it but sadly I crashed it wile racing an audi tt.I was winning in all.what a waste.Luckly i am still alive to tell the story.

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  • chalk Rank: Corporal on 15th Dec 2003

    What only 575.Get a Supercharger X45 SM import turbo and you will get 650 out of one.No more though or you are really pushing it.

  • chalk Rank: Corporal on 21st Dec 2003

    650 only.You dont have a clue i got over 700 for only 27grand.

  • ballin on 19th Jan 2004

    This car is a classic, and should be kept standard.

  • chalk Rank: Corporal on 17th Feb 2004

    Your cars must have been so slow,all u gotta do is fit an bmw m5 engine like i did and i would skin all of ya

  • gammi0025 on 21st Apr 2004

    You simply can't get 500 bhp out of a 1600cc RS Turbo Escort
    The tops is probably around 400 thats with a Zetec 2.1 conversion which is a totally diferent engine so its not an RS turbo at all.

  • qqw on 11th Jun 2005

    575? from an RS turbo. Either you are a powertrain genuis, or a complete bull talker. 3.0 conversion. 35 K?? aww man i give up

  • booner999 Rank: Corporal on 21st Jul 2005

    mate, if you had that car upto that amount of brake you would kill a tt.

  • booner999 Rank: Corporal on 21st Jul 2005

    I agree with Ballin, this car should be left standard, I am sure they will be worth more in the future, Also if you put a cozy engine in there and tuned it you could get it upto 600 odd brake give or take, that would cost you a lot of money!! but totaly not worth it when you could just buy a cozy! I am a great fan of RS Turbos but tuning a classic to that much is just wrong!! thats like tweeking your gran up a little and getting her to run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds?! just not right is it?