"Teh Penguin of Doom" (thepenguinofdoom)
08/09/2019 at 14:07 • Filed to: cosworth, merkur, street parked, ford cosworth
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"Teh Penguin of Doom" (thepenguinofdoom)
08/09/2019 at 14:07 • Filed to: cosworth, merkur, street parked, ford cosworth | 1
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I may have to hand in my Jalop card, because I initially thought it was a 3 series with a Merkur wing. A Cosworth existing in the US (and LHD?!) hadn’t even entered my mind.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:16 |
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Looks like a knock off Subaru from the front
vicali
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/09/2019 at 14:20 |
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wut? who are you calling knockoff?
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vicali
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:22 |
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More AestheticInMotion than AestheticsInMotion .
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> vicali
08/09/2019 at 14:24 |
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Ford
Textured Soy Protein
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/09/2019 at 14:25 |
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The Escort RS Cosworth came out in 19 92. The Impreza wasn’t facelifted to look like that until 1998. It started out looking like this.
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vicali
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/09/2019 at 14:31 |
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Except that Cosworth designed this car in 89, and Subaru ran the Loyale in WRC until 94.. sooo
Svend
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:33 |
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Erm, what?
A fifth gen Ford Escort Cosworth was a BMW 3 Series.
And Ford’s ‘whaletail’ was a ‘Merkur Wing’.
Okay, you never got these in the U.S. so I’ll let you off. Lol.
After all at my sister’s wedding my 40 year old cousin thought a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was an ‘American Cadillac’. Sigh.
DutchieDC2R
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:34 |
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How could you confuse that car with a 3series?
Amoore100
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:38 |
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COZZEH
SiennaMan
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 14:41 |
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The more curious question to me is why did a Brit have a LHD one? (also, props to whoever in Cali went to the bother to import one..)
Vítor
> DutchieDC2R
08/09/2019 at 14:47 |
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I can see the Escort, from very, very far away, being confused with a E36 Compact
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DutchieDC2R
> Vítor
08/09/2019 at 14:49 |
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I didnt think about the E36 compact, but yeah, I can see the confusion from afar now too.....
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Svend
08/09/2019 at 14:52 |
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Why the need to specify “Ameri can ”? Are there non-American Cadillacs?
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> vicali
08/09/2019 at 14:54 |
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Pfft...FAKE NEWS!
While my responses were mostly tongue in cheek, the Subaru is definitely the more well known by the average person
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Textured Soy Protein
08/09/2019 at 14:56 |
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And that design looks even more like the Cosworth (the face at least) ...I wonder which one actually got designed first...I think they were both introduced in ‘92
BeaterGT
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 15:04 |
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These came in LHD?!
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Svend
> SiennaMan
08/09/2019 at 15:05 |
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We have LHDs here. Certain cars can be hard to find unmolested after a time, also it may of been cheaper on the continent than a similar one in the U.K. as these can demand a premium as people try to rekindle their youth.
In the U.K. these go for £26,000 for a bad/average one up to £99,000 for a great one with just 2,589 miles on the clock . (£55,000 commonly).
In Europe they go for between 23,000 and 56,000 Euros (averaging 30,000Euros (£28,000) ).
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Svend
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
08/09/2019 at 15:10 |
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The guy thought this was a Cadillac, I just walked away from him towards my sister in the car rather than ask him anything or stand looking at him incredulously. Lol.
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Teh Penguin of Doom
> BeaterGT
08/09/2019 at 15:19 |
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Maybe someone really did slap a Merkur wing on a 3 series.
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Svend
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/09/2019 at 15:21 |
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In the U.S. maybe, but arguable in Europe, Asia, South America, etc...
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Svend
> BeaterGT
08/09/2019 at 15:24 |
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Yes, it was a Ford Europe thing.
Current prices.
The LHD ones in Europe (averaging £30,000) are quite a bit cheaper than the RHD ones in the U.K. averaging £50,000).
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SiennaMan
> Svend
08/09/2019 at 15:53 |
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Well, that’d explain it. I was thinking it’d been in the UK from new, and if you have both having the wheel on the correct side sounds easier if all other things wer e equal..
Cé hé sin
> SiennaMan
08/09/2019 at 16:11 |
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5GQM 821 isn’t a UK plate.
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Svend
> SiennaMan
08/09/2019 at 16:15 |
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Nah. The only people I know who buy new LHD is if the car is only available in LHD (*certain Renaults) or a few that often work in Holland, France or Germany. Apparently some found it incredibly annoying trying to get tickets for parking or putting money in some unattended toll booths.
Cars like the Escort RS Cosworth,
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth.
Peugeot 205GTi.
Renault Clio 3.0 V6.
and many others have fond memories for Brits in their youth. Probably more so fro Brits than most or many other Euro pean countries.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Teh Penguin of Doom
08/09/2019 at 17:15 |
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EPIC!! I have always LOVED the rear wing on the Cossie Escorts! :D
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SiennaMan
> Cé hé sin
08/09/2019 at 17:36 |
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Then why does it have the union
j
ack and say “Great Britain” both under the EU stars on the far left side front and back?
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Cé hé sin
> SiennaMan
08/09/2019 at 18:25 |
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Somebody just liked it and invented a number for it? Who knows?
Joshua "Dr. Science" Gilbert
> Teh Penguin of Doom
05/28/2020 at 15:46 |
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bruh.