Why the 2025 FORD ESCORT MK1 RS costs £300k - Visit to DRVN Advanced Engineering

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I was invited by DRVN Advanced Engineering in Coventry, home of Boreham Motorworks and the NEW Mk1 Escort RS to see why it is £300,000. What they showed me was amazing. Let me know your thoughts? *EDIT* As a continuation build, the Mk1 RS DOES NOT need to meet the Pedestrian impact REGs, figures are for the new RS200 build.
*NOTE: Amjad Ali Job title currently: Technical Director.
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[@tpc8556]

no longer Motors for the Masses but Motors for the select few

[@motorsforthemasses]

Not really. Just reporting on a motor for the masses...just one that's been upgraded and costs more this time round. I did the Capri, that is a motor for the masses but starts at £50k. The Mustang Mach e a motor for the masses....but that is £75k. It's ok sometimes to do the expensive ones. Back to the normal priced stuff soon enough.

[@MrT79shakeshake]

@@motorsforthemasses Not great examples...a Badge engineered ID4 and an abomination not worthy to wear the name Mustang.

[@motorsforthemasses]

@@MrT79shakeshake but are still motors for the masses regardless of the thoughts on them. I'm not a fan of the Capri and the Ford (not a Mustang) Fusion is good but...not a Mustang; however still motors for the masses.

[@philtucker1224]

As a schoolboy in 1970 every single school exercise book that I owned had a pencil drawing of the Alan Mann Escort. My love of performance Ford’s has never wained.

[@jeff.5380]

I prefer what MST are doing, more in keeping with the original and for a lot less money.

[@vincemarshall8550]

agree ,still way out of reach but a lot cheaper just the same

[@jeff.5380]

@vincemarshall8550 I've had a few original RS2000s back in the day, I couldn't afford to buy one those now, wish I still had one.

[@vincemarshall8550]

@ nice one ,i wasnt old enough for that party but i had a 3.0 s fishnet stockings capri ....good times x

[@dungareesareforfools]

@jeff.5380 I think they're only more in keeping with the original so far as the shell goes, to be fair. The mechanical specs and interiors are way off. But their prices, especially for bare shells, are way more realistic.

[@jeff.5380]

@@vincemarshall8550 good times indeed, I've also had a couple of Capri's. 👌

[@jamesoconnor3017]

Great video and insight thanks , I absolutely love all the hype about this car! I was saving and rebuilding Mk1 escorts over 40 years ago when people were criticising me for wasting my time! But I’d never have another now because too many people have jumped on the bandwagon! Iv just finished building a Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 , let’s hope they never become available again because it’s always been about Built Not Bought for me! 😎👍

[@michaelgreenland4682]

Going back in time (54yrs ago) to the Mk1 Escort. I bought a Mk1 Type 49 (Twin cam) shell painted ermine white with bonnet, boot, and doors from FMC; delivered to my Mum and dads house in Dartford for £200! Should have bought a few more but I was earning £21 a week at the time. £295k, I did think about it but thought 120k would make me consider but..... That car I built won with my trusty navigator Jim; all 12 southeast road rallies in 1976 an various other events around the country Built by me for a total of £700. Then in 1976 bought a trimmed Mk11 shell from FMC for £2k. still can't see the 295k and that car won the up to 1600cc GP2 class in the 24hs of Ypres. Just memories now but glad I did it. When did it all go wrong? my guess the advent of the internet! I imagine those who buy the new one will lock it away and will never see a stage forest rally. PS in Northern Ireland; Frank Kelly (super star with his daughter) has a Mk11 Escort and after a bad crash he went to a workshop for parts and there was atleast half a dozen Mk11 shells sitting in the corner!! Who makes them?

[@dungareesareforfools]

Great video, and what they have done is incredible - but - wouldn't they prefer to build many more copies, so that the effort is appreciated, given that hardly any of those 150 are likely to get driven much?

[@motorsforthemasses]

To do that they would have to adhere to mass build safety guidelines until it won't look like a Mk1

[@dungareesareforfools]

@@motorsforthemasses I must be misundertanding the rules - I thought that was the same as having type approval rather than the vehicles being built under the IVA scheme.

[@kylereese4822]

£300 thousand would love to see the insurance quote...

[@glennhollamby3678]

Would love to see it be a reality not just an advertising scam

[@sparky_inda_house]

Great video...But 300k, id buy another house.

[@grahamgreen8106]

I owned a mk1 Escort Twin Cam back in the day and remember those Alan Mann cars racing. But the price of that new car, a Ford for Ferrari money.

[@philtucker1224]

One of the reasons why the price seems high is to try to control the lengths of the queue. (2 years is considered the maximum that most potential clients will wait)

[@grumholmes]

£300k for a Hot Wheels look-a-like .... interesting vid as ever, but something leaves me a bit cold to it .... maybe a spare £300k 🙃

[@NO_COMMENT_710]

Awesome 😎

[@moreton61]

As I said on your other video, I would rather have a mint original twin cam at a fraction of the price and way better looking. justified or not, that's ridiculous price. Solely for people with unlimited cash.

[@adamweston4152]

I used to have a MK1 avo Mexico when I was alot younger and I was excited when I heard about this all new escort but that excitement disappeared instantly when I heard the price, car's for the rich only...sort of undermines the spirit of what escorts used be.

[@motorsforthemasses]

Where I agree the price is very much "WHHAAAAAT?" It would be impossible to make the same car, or even a newer version to those measurements and spec whilst adhering to modern 'safety' requirements. To make them, they cannot go mainstream , but whilst trying to be as modern as they are able to make it...then comes the price when the units are so small. It is a bitter sweet moment.

[@levelcrossing150]

How many are they expecting to sell?

[@motorsforthemasses]

I do mention in the video; they can only make 150 and they had 300 applications in the first 45 minutes of launch.

[@logohigh1]

Just another cyber truck

[@motorsforthemasses]

@@logohigh1 well hardly lol

[@PS-ps8mo]

@@motorsforthemasses How many of those actually laid down deposits though, and for how much £££?

[@zetpeniakoff4125]

Shame the numbers are so low would have bean good if there where meany more at a slightly lower price point

[@frozenice61]

people buying to hopefully earn a profit at some point down the line ,300 grand for a mk1 escort ,mst cars are 80 grand and ford are using mst popularity and have jumped on the band wagon

[@nigelwilson8331]

As a past escort owner mk1 and m,2s.it still to this day has such a lovely shape.not your jelly mould cars that are around now.300 grand.mmmm. come on you can do better that that.anyway in the 1970s maybe earlier avo at ford were preping mk1s for rallys.i heard that they wanted to fit wider wheels but they stuck out too far.a mechanic said wait a min ile be a sec.came back with a pair of rubber wide arches of the rear of a twin wheel transit.do you remember those.put them up to the side of the car and yup lets make them fit. That was the start of wide arches as we know..😅.ime sure ime right...

[@motorsforthemasses]

The Alan Mann invention story was told to me by John Mitchell.

[@thechiv]

Tbh I now feel a lot better about spending 20k on my original mk2 😅

[@User-wollswoycegawage]

I want a van to do my window cleaning round

[@uncensored5104]

It all sounds lovely. BUT, as a MK1 & MK2 owner for more than 40 years, I do wonder who this car is aimed at, as it is clearly not the genuine Escort enthusiasts! The only people that could afford these are investors who will buy these up and then start to offer them to the open market for half a million quid. They are a rich man's toy-thing, nothing more, nothing less.

[@alanmcguinness3385]

Lotus mk 1 cortina

[@joebloggs1583]

When you can buy a brand new mk1 escort bodyshell complete for 23 and half grand why on earth would you waste 300 grand on this which like all these so called improved cars absolutely tank on the used market when you bored with it a year down the line 😀👍

[@motorsforthemasses]

@joebloggs1583 Can't do much with a shell without the running gear, suspension, engine and wiring though...

[@philtucker1224]

You’ve failed to allow another 276k for the specialist equipment and engineering man-hours to get to this level. Maybe have a word with the other 500 experts around the world that tried to buy one of the 150 cars available 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@motorsforthemasses]

@philtucker1224 a proportion of that will be for the FORD licencing too.

[@philtucker1224]

@@joebloggs1583 extremely knowledgeable millionaire collectors of these types of cars all around the world often have 20, 30, 40 such valuable cars in their collections totalling literally millions of dollars, stretching over many years of careful investment. Obviously they know nothing compared to joebloggs1583! Ha ha! 🤣😂

[@smudgersmith1786]

The fact that it's already oversubscribed tells me that the real cars and even the MST ones can only go one way... There will be hundreds of people with £300k burning a hole in their pockets pining for a Mk1. 😋😋

[@peterstevenson5418]

If its built by ford these days you can keep it no matter how good it looks

[@motorsforthemasses]

@peterstevenson5418 It's not, it's built by Boreham Motorworks.

[@pauldoyle9638]

Yeah, real life you said at the end! But at the moment, it's not. MST 80g, don't thing so.

[@teamtempest844]

Any assistance by Dunton...?

[@BorehamMotorworks]

Yes! The new Ford Escort Mk1 RS is developed with Ford Motor Company as part of our 10-year license agreement with Ford.

[@teamtempest844]

@BorehamMotorworks Good. Will the vehicle be uploaded to Microcat?

[@PS-ps8mo]

No doubt a touring car spec RS500 in on the to do list, way to hard to reproduce all the plastics needed for a road spec copy though.

[@dungareesareforfools]

@@PS-ps8mo I reckon these guys just might be able to pull off those plastics.

[@PS-ps8mo]

@@dungareesareforfools Not a chance, the cost to tool up to o/e spec would be enormous, they would never recover it.

[@dungareesareforfools]

@PS-ps8mo you reckon, when they're asking £300k per unit for the Escort? Why is plastic more expensive to produce? (It's not, especially these days with laser scanning etc.)

[@PS-ps8mo]

@@dungareesareforfools No one could currently reproduce o/e plastics, sure they can copy the shape, but not how it looks. I cannot educate you in this if you are unaware of the basics. It would have to be a restomod to get around the restrictions.

[@dungareesareforfools]

@@PS-ps8mo Not really sure what you mean, unless you're talking about regulatory problems? The touring cars were built in very low volumes originally (even the road-going RS500 was) so I'm not sure why you think the cost would be so much more of an issue now.

[@AntonHoward-mx9sb]

Ridiculous. I understand the costs of tooling up and development to build these cars but no way would I spend £300k on one. My very early MK1 NUT327F from the first 6 months of production, cost me £100 in 1989 and ended up with a 1760 crossflow, four link rear and 2.8i Capri brakes and was great fun but nope. If I had £300k going spare I'd buy a new 911 Targa, a £10k Bentley GT as a daily hack and chuck the rest into a house and be as happy as a pig in shit.

[@MegaReddevil71]

I cant see how they could make all the press tools to manufacture their own bodyshell so i reckon they shells are made from.magnum panels i think the new car is too far away from.what a mk1 escort should be ie fly by wire throttle u could build something all singing from mst for a lot less but i should imagine ford are beung paid quite a bit for them to use the ford name

[@motorsforthemasses]

@MegaReddevil71 I couldn't get an answer as to what the licence fee per unit is lol.

[@glennhollamby3678]

Take a look at the background of this company Founded about a year ago. Funds about £1000 The e type company mentioned no longer exists Appears to be an advertising scam, all smoke and mirrors Was created from an advertising company Try some background checks with companies house

[@motorsforthemasses]

Penso (the old company) were a car design consultancy, CAD design, tool making, prototypes etc. They had involvement from Mr JWW on YT also, who still is involved with DRVN. Be careful what you write about people...

[@glennhollamby3678]

Just raising the questions, i suppose you could call it " due diligence " a company rises from the ashes of a string of previously closed endeavours, attempting to market a seriously expensive item with nothing to show for it but lots of ai images and a few assorted generic car parts available from ebay, Even small kit car manufacturer produce a demonstrator for prospective clients Since this is supposedly being produced in conjunction with ford, why no corporate fanfare, no corporate engineering Jaguar produced continuation models, in house, why would ford risk their corporate identity and intellectual rights with an unknown, operating from the back of an industrial estate?

[@stevemcevoy5628]

For that price Why not just buy an original and restore it then you'll have an original not a re release

[@Bonehill70]

Somebody humour me here please, and explain how there is a 2025 Mk1 Escort? What are we looking at here?

[@motorsforthemasses]

Watch this and my previous 2 videos on it and you will see.

[@philtucker1224]

That’s nothing special there’s plenty of similar cars at that price. There’s a healthy market for these types of cars and most clients think of spending their money in the U.K. when they decide to have one. 👌🇬🇧

[@ronniehoyle9671]

Good video but it's not a car for the masses at £300,000 ! They've definitely sold it to you but not or I'm guessing alot of others due to price. This is only a car for the very wealthy and I don't think I'll ever see one being driven as intended...manufacturering shelf queens comes to mind.

[@AaronDavies-ms3si]

Really I've got a mk2 rs2000 custom 1979 if you would like to purchase a true standard car it's yours for 150 k ❤

[@jamieh46]

i question who will be buying these cars, lets be honest your hardcore ford enthusiasts who maybe own an original mk1 escort or want to own one cannot afford 300K for one of these...

[@motorsforthemasses]

@jamieh46 I asked that is it the case that half of them will just be shipped off out of the UK to sit in garages? The haven't selected who will get them yet.

[@miketucker7466]

All the “development” BS makes the MST cars sound like much more fun

[@christinalloyd9566]

Haha. They needn't have bothered doing the finite element analysis of the body in white. I can tell you right now that it will have the torsional stiffness of a wet lettuce and wouldn't even get a 1* euro ncap crash rating. Ludicrous.

[@Bod8998]

Still lovely motor but 300 large .way too much

[@roberttaylor6075]

Mst are the guys i would go to and i am looking forward to there all electric car thats going to be one seriously fast car.

[@dungareesareforfools]

@roberttaylor6075 just buy a Tesla if that's all you want. An electric Escort will lose everything appealing about it, except the shape.

[@roberttaylor6075]

@dungareesareforfools I have an electric car, my son has an almost 500bhp cosworth powered mk 2 escort. But why not have an option of an electric mk 2. yes, we all like an escort with all manner of petrol engines screaming away, but it's just another evolution for the escort.

[@martynashworth1442]

You can't redesign te ecu the original never had one

[@motorsforthemasses]

@@martynashworth1442 perhaps should have said redesigned the wiring to incorporate an ECU...

[@stecozz4907]

A modern car that looks like a mk1. Totally losing the point and feeling of driving a real classic car.

[@AndrewNeilBaird]

So you take modern technology and make a copy of a cheap basic rust bucket saloon car that was originally designed to do 80mph . And think it is worth the same as a new Ferrari? Idiots and their money are easily parted.

[@loti54]

for the stupid amount for some crappy old escort, I could by a lot of sportscars, screw your rally car. What on earth were they smoking to price it at GBP 300K?

[@roberttaylor6075]

I get what your saying about the price, but the escort rally car was not a crappy old rally car it was a world beating rally car. Supercars do nothing for me, there all the same, one looks very much like another, every successful youtuber, every major drug dealer has one there relatively common now. My son has a mk2 escort with nearly 500bhp of cosworth power it's bullet proof costs pennies to service and gets more attention than these super cars. It's blisteringly fast and you never see another on the road at the same time.

[@dungareesareforfools]

@@roberttaylor6075 here here.

[@richardbryant7505]

MST do it better

[@stuarteastman4472]

MST only put them together, all the hard work is done some were else.

[@slimsantana9482]

what a load of shite 300k fur a 20k car yes makes sense n dont start waffling bout new this that its the people's car comandered fur the clowns with mopre money than sense

[@andyscooter5753]

Sounds like ford are making up alot of gobbledy goop to try justify the overly priced car, and when you could buy an MST Escort for 1/3 of the cost. And to your own spec and colour.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

Not a Ford is it! Just a copy and not an Escort either!

[@motorsforthemasses]

@andyscooter5753 Well, having the shell doesn't make it a Ford Escort, otherwise a Fiero kit F355 would be a Ferrari. I do want to see the MST as I am intrigued to see what they are all about. They certainly look and sound cool.

[@logohigh1]

somehow they have to make up the shortfall from the dearth sales acrosss other platforms

[@andyscooter5753]

​@JohnSmith-ei2pz well done . But I'd be saving £200,000 . And i could almost buy a new house for that to park the car in front of it.

[@motorsforthemasses]

@andyscooter5753 Well let's be honest, if you have 300k to buy one....you've probably got a garage to put it in too lol

[@Mel-he1hg]

Don’t be silly total joke