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(Message started by: slimspider on Sep 26^th, 2006, 7:20pm)

Title: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by slimspider on Sep 26^th, 2006, 7:20pm

The wife has been bleating about wanting a smaller car something like a ford focus and i have been saying no... the scorpio is great for camping etc and trying to explain that a second hand car with leather seats and electric everything would be £20,000 or so and that these are special cars.... anyway this site has helped my case... highlander has sent a spare ariel and base etc and showing her all the posts she is now keener to keep the old scorpio... !!!

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Matt on Sep 26^th, 2006, 7:28pm

what model is it?

with the amount that are being broken or scrapped they are becomming rare cars, i imagin the price will start to creep up again as they reach 15 to 20 years old

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by slimspider on Sep 26^th, 2006, 7:35pm

its a 2.3 ultima estate.. lots of dents and scrapes but solid... air con broken and the recline motor of the drivers seat but otherwise fine..
My mate has a volvo cross country estate XC70 or something which he reckons has a similar spec although more modern and 4WD but cost him £22,000 second hand!

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by TiberiuS on Sep 26^th, 2006, 9:56pm

Just my 2 Cents but neither the Focus or Mondeo are anywhere to the Scorpio in my humble opinion.

We have a Mondeo and it's a solid car but I miss the Scorpio in general when I'm driving the Mondeo, it's just better in every way, more torque, more refined, better handling, better roadholding at high speed etc, hence the trouble I've gone through to keep it running. The Scorpio is the next best thing to a Jag, Lexus or a very expensive Merc, despite how they got laughed at in the 90's.

The Mondeo is a good everyday runner but a replacement for the Scorpio? No.

You'd miss it, not least for the boot space :)

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by mr._floppy on Sep 27^th, 2006, 12:25am

With the trouncing that the Scorpio got on release Ford Europe seemed to have given up on the big luxury Ford Saloon.

The mondeo ? that's a laugh, it's a hatchback for God's sake :-/

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by jonnycab on Sep 27^th, 2006, 12:35am

My wifes 2.0L Mondeo estate (manual) is useless. If I gave her a 5 second start at Santa Pod then my 2.3 Auto would still beat it.

The new Mondeo is a different beast though.
I had a Y reg 2.0 zetec with the duratec engine before my present Scorp.
I hate to admit it, but it was a nippier car than the 2.3 Scorp & had the same BHP.
But it couldn't touch the Scorp on refinement.

It was tinny, had alot of road noise on the motorway, everything inside was cheap plastic & seemed to rattle, not alot of leg room (had more than the old Mondeo though), & it ate front tyres big time. :(

The Mondeo is a bog standard family car, even the Ghia X is just a posh family car. Where as the Scorpio was built for the executive market to rival Merc, BMW & Lexus so has the quality you would expect from a top class executive car.
I seem to remember Tony Blair & his cronies being chauffered around in them when they won the election in '97. 8)

P.S. Alot of people I pick up in my Scorp Taxi say "cor.....this is a bit nice.....too nice to be a taxi".
My tips are higher since I changed from the Mondeo to the Scorpio. ;D

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by VSBlue on Sep 27^th, 2006, 12:58am

;D I had a N reg 2.5 si v6 Mondeo with duratec engine before my present N reg Scorpio.2.9 v6 & only payed £775 for the scorpio less than i payed for mondeo it cost me a £1000 for a lot less car
It was tinny, had alot of road noise on the motorway, not alot of leg room in back
no beter on fuel it was a nippier ;D

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Atlantic_blue on Sep 27^th, 2006, 6:31pm

I have a 2.0 130hp tdci Mondeo estate as well as the Scorpio est.

My Mondeo will sit at 130mph all day in Germany, driven normally it will return 45-48mpg.

It does not rattle, in fact it is well built. Admittedly it has a large plastic dash, but so has the Scorpio .

The boot is enormous. It is an lx & it is well equipped.

It does not eat tyres i have done 56000 miles & only had 2 front tyres.

I do not feel tired driving long distances, the seats are comfortable, the brakes, steering, handling, are well up to standard. It is also reliable. I would gladly buy another one.

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by TiberiuS on Sep 28^th, 2006, 7:13pm

I'd never have posted if I had any idea what it would start.

People could be forgiven for thinking that the new model Mondeo was marketed as a Scorpio replacement, I like the Mondeo enough as a daily runner but it is my own opinion that it doesn't compare to the Scorpio in any way as a direct replacement, even in the Mk3 guise. If anybody feels otherwise, don't get heated about it, I meant no offence ;).

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by sector-9 on Sep 28^th, 2006, 9:03pm

If anybody wants to swap a TDCi mondeo for my Scorp then I'd gladly do so! I often get the mondeo as a hire car for work and do like it a lot; the engine is just so much better than the VM and I've never been a fan of the Scorpio styling...

Darren

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by TiberiuS on Sep 28^th, 2006, 9:18pm

Chapter 3

TiberiuS (in defence)=Never again will I voice my opinions on the Mondeo your Honour

Judge=Take this wretched creature away and have him hanged for Mondeo orientated slander

*TiberiuS shoots himself in the head*

The End.

::)

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Bren on Sep 28^th, 2006, 10:50pm

Red Rum had every single thing the same as the horse that used to deliver the milk back in my grandad's time
........... BUT....... somewhere in the making, a bit of undefinable magic got mixed in.

The rest, as they say, is history and that gentlemen for me at least leaves nothing more to be said. Because if we all didn't think there is something a little bit special about these motor cars, then why go to the trouble of joining what is actually a fan club for them.

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Sep 29^th, 2006, 7:36pm

if we were all sheep we would all have mondeos who wants to have 2.1 kids and be called a clone, the older the car gets the more other makes are looking like scorpios. some nice clone asked why i like ugly cars i replied i can change the car your stuck with that face. maybe i am odd all my cars have been the same the one i want not what some add tells you should have now were can i get some nice sheepskin seat covers

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by stafford on Sep 30^th, 2006, 10:46pm

ive owned some cars in my time ..400bhp cossies to jaguar xjr s ..apart from the jag this ultima is the best car I have owned for a number of reasons ..the spec is simply unmatchable for the money and after doing a couple of minor facelift mods and a set of 18s, just to make her a Little bit nicer to look at , most people if not all, usually ask " Whats that car your driving its well posh"

I should imagine in a car crash she would do much better than most cars from her era??

I love this car and will never sell her ..I d be mad to ..esp as shes a 60lire LPG tank in the boot!!! ;D

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by jonnycab on Sep 30^th, 2006, 11:22pm

Ahhhhh.....love is blind ;D

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by julie_quaife on Oct 1^st, 2006, 8:59pm

well said Bren!!

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Baz on Oct 2^nd, 2006, 8:38am

Mine is sat on the path still waiting to be fixed.............. I did go and have a look at a 745i the other day though.....mmmmmm toys galore!

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by harry.m1byt on Nov 5^th, 2006, 9:30pm

I've had a series of Granada's and found them to be a good solid, comfortable, suprimely reliable car. I also needed the size and weight for towing. I kept my last one longer than I had intended, by a couple of years whilst I was wondering what to replace it with.

I was looking at spending upto 10k and even looking at 4x4's, I didn't quite see the Scorp as a valid replacement for my Granada, but will admit I had not looked at them closely - the styling put me off when I saw my first one long ago.

I kept the Granadas and now the Scorp as a secondary car, not my daily transport. Aside from the Scorp I have my working transport and a motorbike.

I'm happy to let it sit in the garage and just bring it out when I need its weight, its towing ability, or its sheer comfort. It is a 28k luxury car with all the gizmos, a cost which I could never justify for the private mileage it needs to cover in a year.

My Granada's have cost me peanuts to keep on the road, once I have got over the initial (small investment) and the usually small cost involved in fixing up the neglect.

This Scorp has probably been easier (so far at least) to get it sorted out to my satisfaction and cost half of what I have usually paid for Granada's in the past.

I only looked at two - the first out of curiosity, at a used car dealer which would have taken some serious money to be spent to buy it - much more to repair the body damage plus neglect and the one I actually bought at less than half of the dealers cost.

I am a terrible buyer and I absolutely loath the buying process - the risk of buying something where I know I will probably take many weeks to find out all of its problems and fix them. It is the major problems I dread, but so far I have never been faced with any from the Granada/ Scorpio range.

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Baz on Nov 6^th, 2006, 10:21am

Car back on the road....... Stafford, did I mention I had LPG as well??

Baz

Title: Re: keeping the scorpio!!
Post by Geoff_W on Nov 7^th, 2006, 11:39pm

LPG How much is that now? ;D