The Next Generation...

[MightySprocket]

in 30 years time will people be as passionate about the characterless cars of today? can you imagine a focus having a following like any of the OSFs

[Morley]

words of one...

NO

[Mk2Jo]

I think the RS focus will be a "collectable" (not really sure that is the righ word) car but not in the way that our cars are now

[MightySprocket]

Worst thing Ford has done is to loose the RS badge! drove a fiesta ST recently and althought it was resonably good fun they just don't leave a lasting impression..... very synthetic

[Mk2Jo]

I think that if they bought back the Cosworth badge/association then they might produce something that will become iconic although I still don't think it will have the same appeal as ours do in years to come

[Rick]

times change who knows

 

the st's will prob be sought after,

 

back in the 70's mk1 escorts were ten a penny. now every1 seems to want one

[Twinkle]

lets face it though i dont think the kia pride is gonna be an iconic motor

[MightySprocket]

fingers crossed ford re-release the RS after the win this year

[Dom]

Well I hope Ford do make a cosworth something, but the chances are if they do it won't be any good.

 

They'll sterilise it, thats what they'll do. They, for some reason, will never make something that was as good as a sierra, or better, an escort cossie. They'll probably make it FWD and put the engine the wrong way round!!!! They'll go stupid with it, they need someone in charge to say 'Look guys, its about time we made a decent motor'

[Mk 1 Mark]

fingers crossed ford re-release the RS after the win this year

 

And make them RWD and cosworth power please!!!

[V8ian]

I think that if they bought back the Cosworth badge/association then they might produce something that will become iconic although I still don't think it will have the same appeal as ours do in years to come

 

As ford do not own Cosworth anymore, I doubt if the badge will re appear in the near future on a Ford, I have heard a rumor that there will be a Cosworth VAUXHALL in the pipeline

[Morley]

I think that if they bought back the Cosworth badge/association then they might produce something that will become iconic although I still don't think it will have the same appeal as ours do in years to come

 

Cosworth VAUXHALL

 

[Retromotorsport]

Well I hope Ford do make a cosworth something, but the chances are if they do it won't be any good.

 

they need someone in charge to say 'Look guys, its about time we made a decent motor'

 

They Did..The Ford GT

[Vista]

Well I hope Ford do make a cosworth something, but the chances are if they do it won't be any good.

 

they need someone in charge to say 'Look guys, its about time we made a decent motor'

 

They Did..The Ford GT

 

I was gonna say that Looks like our Lord J.C. hasn't got much good to say about their reliability though.

[Stu_B]

I saw a black GT yesterday! beautifull car!

[Dom]

Bit different though ain't it as its a Ford Yank as opposed to Ford Eco-Fiendly Europe (and yes I did mean to spell it fiendly).

 

They made the Focus RS which is a nice car but i'd rather have had Steve Scotts version. I'm in a way dissapointed that the RS badge has faded and been replaced with ST and whatnot but thinking about it, RS's are special, and theres nothing very special about ST's so i'd have gotten the hump if they had called all the new stuff RS's.

 

Ain't no pleasin some people

 

p.s Whilst the Ford GT isn't the most reliable car, its sooo good it can make you buy it twice

[Gareth]

I think the appeal of Old Skool cars is u can fix 'em on ur drive

 

New cars will never have that, or the timeless character

that comes with anything made from about 1980 back...

[Retromotorsport]

Re the Ford GT .... Its more British than American... may have been produced over there and the British workers where kept out of the video for the making of it ... but belive me, they where there, or it wouldnt have been a great car, infact they would have stuck Cart springs on it.

 

And its still the best car produced in America today ... according to JC

[Mr Sam]

anyone seen the new RS focus

[60ftman]

I'm just waiting for my Cougar and the wife's Fiesta ST to become old skool.............................................

[atomic punk]

If they stopped making them out of plastic and stuffing them full of computers, and put real soul into them, maybe then theyd be sought after as our OSFs are now......

[Mr Sam]

nevaaaaaaaaaaar

 

unless they start re-making propper OSF's...........okay maybe they could change the fiesta to RWD and produce the mk1 with a cossie option, oh and the capri with a V8 option of course

[Gareth]

The only way I could see any new one becomin an iconic OSF

is if Ford produced a 'modernised' Capri, like Ford USA and Dodge did

[S2 Dee]

I think not. I doubt many current cars will be around in 30 years, the were will probably be more OSF's on the road than current focus / fiesta / c-max, etc. The majority of modern cars have no soul.

 

Dee

[DeuceCoupe]

don't think the cars will last like the osf they don't make them like they used too