Agree re the Escort
I wrote off a Mk2 Mondeo 1.8TD and bought a cheap Escort 1.8D as a runabout while I waited for one of my employers' Mondeo Mk2 1.8TDs to go off-lease so I could buy it - which I later did. God the Escort was crap in comparison - solid, reliable, economical but so, so dull and uncomfortable. I sold it after 3 weeks and walked everywhere as it was more enjoyable. And this was in January...
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Thu 15 Nov 2012, 18:33, 1 reply)

When some wretched skill-less tea leaf tried to nick my Escort in Coventry
...and did EXACTLY the amount of damage to the ignition lock that made it uneconomic to fix AND not worth losing my No-Claims I was actually happy to see that sad sun-burned red-and-blanched grey plastic shitpot get taken away even though I only had a bike to get to work after that.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 16 Nov 2012, 1:16, closed)