Sierra Cosworth Getaway and Raid, Unigate Depot 1993

[@jaysimpson6857]

That Cosworth’s handling looked like a modern performance car, no one would have known what a treat this footage would be 20 years later.

[@Felix-rising]

They were awesome

[@aidans9010]

I can totally relate to and understand why you said 20, but the footage is actually 30 years old. Haha

[@pauliewalnuts240]

It's called being light. Cars are 4000+ lbs now. Sporty cars are still above 3000lbs. You can give a cow all the technological advancements, but it's still a cow.

[@jaysimpson6857]

@@pauliewalnuts240 Good point, I didn’t think of it like that.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

30 years later yer Sausage!!

[@IrishWannabe]

Never have I ever seen so many Sierras in one place. Crazy how they once used to be common, now they are rare as hell.

[@CuriosSpiritual]

sure are the same with mondeos

[@benlotus2703]

@BruceWayne-sz3th Stop the cap😂

[@_Area-51]

They all ended up crispy

[@Niggleblade1986]

Obv, how old are they 🤣

[@tomkandy]

In 1994 there were over a million Sierras on the roads in the UK. Today there are less than 2000.

[@paulmiller2320]

I was working at the Poole Halfords Superstore on the Ringwood Road the day the robbery happened I never got to own a cosworth but was very proud to own a series 1 RS Turbo Escort back then.Best car days of my life the 90s great times.

[@Big.Wang.Zhang99]

Nothing beats cars from the 90's and early 2000's. Cars seem boring now they just dont have that same feel.

[@michaeledwards427]

Couldn't agree more. I brought a 1989 1.8 LX in about 92. Still the best car I've ever had, absolutely great fun in the snow, trying to do my best Roger Clark (my favourite rally driver) impressions!!

[@Big.Wang.Zhang99]

@michaeledwards427 I was born in 93 and used to see them around as a kid. I was absolutely fascinated with them. I'm the proud owner of a 2001 Subaru Impreza wrx and it's got that rustic, simple feel cars nowadays just don't have but yet a complete pleasure to drive. Colin mcrae and Richard burns were my idols, it was so fun growing up in the 90s and early 2000s.

[@michaeledwards427]

@@Big.Wang.Zhang99 You mentioning impreza's and Burns and Mcrae I've lived in/around Banbury where Prodrive are based practically all my life. I remember when they were looking after some BMW M3's years ago at their original site (now part of a retail park) and I got a very brief look inside the workshop, it was absolutely spotlessly clean. I also regularly go past thier new site, way bigger than the old one. They've basically gone from a small industrial unit to something the size of a distribution depot.

[@theculturedthug6609]

It's like everyone has a decent car now everyone has 4x4s unless you're you have a Ferrari you don't stand out anymore.

[@Big.Wang.Zhang99]

@theculturedthug6609 That's why I like Subaru's. Ridiculously expensive to insure and tax but you don't see them anymore. You only see proper car enthusiasts with them now in my opinion. Everybody nowadays seems to have audi s3 that are mapped or bmw m140's. Fun cars but they certainly don't put a smile on my face like old Japanese cars.

[@sidvee]

I was driving round Fleetsbridge roundabout when this happened. Brings back some great memories of stolen Cossies racing round Poole at night

[@darrenjones3080]

I was born in 84, so when I was like 10 years old or so in the mid 90's, these were the cars I idolized as a kid lol. Pulsar GTI-R, E30 BMW, and the top of my fantasies was the Sapphire Cosworth! Later in life I was lucky enough to own a 325i sport E30 and a Subaru wrx that I spent thousands on tuning up....but I never owned a cossie! IMO they don't make cars like those anymore. They have no character now.

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Very True, In the mid to late 90's I bought a trade in Sierra Sapphire Cosworth for £2200 the insurance was £900 ,It was on its last legs it needed a complete engine rebuild but it was cool, got 5 weeks out of it and engine stopped cranking,sold to my mate for £2500, my brief ownership was the best car I ever owned.

[@user-mx1yb3vx2g]

80.s and the 90.s were the day's quality old day's

[@SubtraxionStudio]

Yeah but crap built always breaking down u less you had bmw E90.

[@frankburnside2030]

I had one of those. Flint grey 4x4 registered in an H plate with black leather. Great car.

[@CuriosSpiritual]

I had one mine had naff crunching loose gearbox and arches were rusting, It wasn't a great experience for me😪

[@frankburnside2030]

@@CuriosSpiritual I can imagine. Expensive to fix but the cheapest part of owning those cars was the initial cost lol.

[@BullyBoxer]

@@CuriosSpiritual I don't what's up with the witness , I had brand new one in late 1993 paid 20k from Bristol street in Cheltenham , I was only 19 lol

[@Mishima505]

@@BullyBoxer20 grand car, another 20 grand to insure it.

[@wilspu5590]

Girls cars

[@whatchannel3679]

This is a classic, I remember this from Crimewatch back in the day. Good find mate

[@1betterthan]

Remember a year in the 90's coming back from a nightclub in Gillingham Kent about 3 or 4 am in the morning going back home to London and being a passenger in a Cosworth speeding down the motorway at 100 plus mph was a clear run and home in a few minutes will never forget, was super quick.

[@alfiebarrett2485]

Quickest I've done is 16 mins from Gillingham to the roundabout in Kidbrooke.

[@1betterthan]

@@alfiebarrett2485 We wouldn't get away with it now, Great memories.

[@alfiebarrett2485]

True lol, I laughed when I read your comment, I had family in medway and lived in London and used to time myself when I had a clear run. the breaks where almost on fire baring in mind and that's no exaggeration lol, good memories.

[@1betterthan]

@@alfiebarrett2485 Good stuff, Lol.

[@TheWully09]

I drove my mates home from town years ago pulled off at rhe lights and had hit 60 in second gear while changing into 3rd was a different league to my Orion Gaia I had at the time for sure .

[@hawkster6578]

The milkman the driver gave the thumbs up too, used to deliver to my mums house in hamworthy back in the day. I remember when that happened, was big news at the time.

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

Yeah he said she was the only house wife on your street preferred him coming in the back door

[@dalecross4543]

Robbers loved them HEAD bags back in the day 😂

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

Based

[@reconforsales7708]

In the 90s the Cosworth was one of the fastest cars in the world!

[@williamrae9954]

Lotus Carlton just choked on his beer 😂

[@martytdd1606]

​@@williamrae9954Nobody left them factory standard after they left the showroom. Ones running around with 300hp, some had 4 or 500. We all know in standard form the Carlton was more powerful.

[@danielbridson8534]

@@williamrae995440 RA 🚀

[@joshuaaaron125]

@@danielbridson8534the owner of 40RA has another one now

[@danielbridson8534]

@@joshuaaaron125 i read that on the net few days ago but thank you for letting me know bro 👍 i know it was on a Hyundai for years Good on him for getting another 1 hats off Sir Famous car she is This 1 won’t get pinched 🙏

[@max95-nq6sm]

First Car around 20 years back, Sierra, loved that Motor.

[@G4RY1159]

Wonder if the car is still around, because of the fake plates I guess we'll never know if it's still around or in the Cossie graveyard

[@scottyj8135]

Reminds me of a Lotus Carlton. 40 RA 👍

[@mattphillips9107]

I loved my cosworth, tuned by ford rally team, fast as hell.

[@mrfrdman]

Got to love a cossie :)

[@BrandonTaylor-bg1xv]

Had a 4x4 magenta 92 plate back in the late 90s absolutely loved it. Oh i loved the 90s

[@trollmanrs]

Living in the Bournemouth area I remember this well, as also I was into my Ford RS and had a Cosworth. I remember my mate who worked at English Ford where the Cosworth was stolen talling me about it how they stole a customers car. !!

[@max95-nq6sm]

Knew there would be a Scouser involved 😂

[@CaptainMav]

Love how it’s not “the car” or “the Ford” or “the Sierra” it’s just “the cosworth” so revered

[@BalearicBeatnik]

Lush car! Also happy memories of the 80’s when the milkman would come round 😅mad they never got caught 🤐

[@jelleklinge9743]

Had one in 2002. red, 2wd, green engine cover. Loved the car. Burned the exhaust valves, engine was ruined. Those long gear strokes, squared dash. Man that was a fast and comfortable car. Really enjoyable drive would like to get one but they are expensive! Still.miss it.

[@TheDeviantgeezer]

I had the a 1990 4x4 sapphire in grey in my 20’s it was 2yrs old when I bought it, kept it for 12 yrs it was fast reliable comfortable good on fuel, wish I had kept it

[@considerlizards]

5:57 The last time I saw a Cossie being driven that bad Mike Smith was at the wheel.

[@user-qd6ru1rr5g]

Great video pal … keep up the good work ☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@bigbhp6808]

Great vid your daughter has did you proud on all her research love the old crime watch reconstructions i own a h reg 4x4 cossy now had a few back in the day lovely motors when they are running right lol

[@MarkAndrew-lo4qo]

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[@mohammedriaz7667]

what a great car to do the robbery. but no need to shoot at the police; could of just escaped in that car

[@1betterthan]

Yep, was a bit over the top.

[@jasmine66666666]

I think the policr have killed just ad many innocents and brutalised as criminaks they claim to chase

[@daboss3116]

They had to otherwise they would had a chase on… effective in my eyes very effective still not caught

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

He put the mask on and shot at the cops car cause he knew the cops couldn't give chase if they were injured, or if they didn't have back up and fire arms. If the cops had fire arms on them, they would have shot back at the gunman before they could drive off.

[@williamrae9954]

£25k is today worth around £50k today, shows how car prices haven't kept up with wages,one of those would be the equivalent of £75k if Ford made similar today,all because of the peasants PCP renting vehicles they cannot afford!

[@K20TypeR]

I don’t understand your comment. How are pcp cars leading to increased prices?

[@DaveSCameron]

Scousers get everywhere… smh. Another belter Sir and many thanks.

[@andrewcrouch2362]

Good video upload enjoyed watching it 👍

[@Bengina3]

Oi Oi love a cossie my dad had a Sierra D plate a 2.3dl was slow asf and sounded like a tractor 😁👌🏼

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Nice 👍

[@leerobson490]

Great content as always. You should look into the 1998 security depot robbery in Aberdeen, 1 million and still unsolved

[@jaysimpson6857]

Did it involve a Cosworth? 😆

[@leerobson490]

😂 probably purchased a few

[@williamrae9954]

That the military guys?(or IRA).

[@deanoflip7459]

​​​If my memory serves me right, there was a White Vauxhall Senator 24 Valve, and a White Bedford Midi Van was used in the Aberdeen 1 million pound robbery, I actually only watched the video on it a couple of months back, and it might have even been on this channel that I watched it, I can't remember. December 3, 1998 it happened, I have just Googled it. 0:02

[@leerobson490]

Haven't heard anything about it. I'm sure crimewatch done a reconstruction

[@chrisyboy666]

My dad had the 1st 4x4 Cosworth in the North east..bought from Henley’s Melbourne street Newcastle 4 days he had it and it was nicked…

[@scarface21173]

Good one to watch flying squad operation turkey Ronald Easterbrook armed robbery gone wrong 1980s. Keep up the excellent work really enjoy your videos 👍

[@invisibleman2900]

Great upload as always

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@nonamespecified1262]

I dont care about new cars, they all look the same, I'd have an old 80s/90s car all day.

[@wildnfree101]

The police will have pulled all the stops out too during the investigation. They don't let you get away with shooting at them easily.

[@Darkstar3022]

The Beautiful Joanne Kenny RIP Sweet Angel

[@nonegiven9579]

The mercedes 190 cossie was the classier car of that wonderful era

[@dspencer8827]

Gorgeous cossie

[@andrewskinner5860]

Great vid a still daily drive a blue 2.0 pinto saph 89 on a g plate

[@sprograt]

I remember in Manchester someone dressed up as a policeman and went into the RS dealers in Trafford and they handed the keys to a police RS Cosworth and they drove it around Ordsall with sirens and blues flashing, its on KZbin (Actual footage)

[@Desertfox170]

😂😂

[@Bell-Enders]

Sierra cosworths a pleasure to watch ❤

[@carlpage2438]

One of them, cars sold for half a million pound. About 6 months ago at a car auction.

[@RSCOZZY]

The car you mean was an earlier RS500 3 door Cosworth. There was a Sapphire that sold for about 97K at the same time.

[@user-wl3eb1jw3o]

The good old days

[@RSCOZZY]

Still have one from new on 92' J plate.

[@davinagraham4617]

Love that cossie!!!! Thanks for the upload

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Thank you more on the way........

[@twistedmanbags]

Back when cars had character and purpose, now they're just built to fall apart.

[@tupacshakur9847]

Good vid that cheers mate.

[@FURY1985.]

mondeo st220 classic car had one bk in 2005

[@leeedwards7721]

When i worked at Fords Main-Dealer at just 18 i had the Job of Correcting Off-Centre steering wheels/Tracking, Then a New Silver Cossy came in SMASHED UP [Theft] When it was Re-Built i had to do the Tracking and take the Cossy up the Road, JEEZ those cars only had 200bhp from factory but OMG they could GO. It reminded me of a 2stroke Power-Band Kicking in as i was only 18 at the time. I made SURE the TRACKING HAD TO BE RE-Adjusted a few MORE TIMES before HAVING to give it back.

[@2strokemxclassics]

We used to go to the waters edge car park in the 90,s and morrisons car park at south shields, would be over 200 modded cars parked up every weekend, then someone would shout "cozzie"everyone would look and admire a white one which would cruise around with a dump valve. The good old days, big sound systems pumping all night, no cameras, no phones, no cctv🙂

[@MrDanybe]

The good old days

[@alexjaybrady]

The flaw with the plan was their getaway car was far too cool

[@michaelduke6623]

It's quite convenient how they all had Sierra's even the police

[@myname7284]

thats why they was nicknamed the ford cliterous every cunt had one

[@ickleshouse]

subd, what a mixture you have on here, very interesting.

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Awesome, thank you!

[@user-yg2vw8cc8c]

Cossies wicked motors especially the 3 doors but 40 RA !! NOW THATS WAT U CALL A MOTOR!!!if u know u know 😊😊😊

[@dodgerboe]

Can’t believe I got away with that one ! Miss that car ….

[@Bell-Enders]

😂😂😂

[@kingkong81icloud]

I once bought a nice Sierra Sapphire in 99 off a posh estate for £250 , be worth a Fortune now

[@O-beefie]

Bloke I know 1990 mk1 Mexico 100 quid bargin

[@kingkong81icloud]

@@O-beefie yea my mate had a yellow escort RS Mexico mark 1 , looked good it said Mexico across the bottom of the door and body

[@johnharmon9466]

Nice vid fella

[@WORDFLESHGOD]

Where did the other two criminals go? At first there was the young boy driver and the 2 guys got in, one in a black balaclava and the other a mask, but when the cops got shot it the only person in the car was the masked guy? Weird

[@TheWully09]

We had Unigate milk delivered when I was a kid There was a Unigate dairy about a mile from my house It got knocked down in the early -mid 80,s and houses built on it .

[@carspottinguk84]

The escort cosworth was better looking but the Sierra cozy were faster good times 💥

[@tomharte432]

Wow they were different times alright

[@forddoctorforddoctor5918]

What a fantastic time capsule that cosworth is and as one of the comments said you wouldn’t need to shoot the law it would of out run most of what they had then an give most of what’s on the road now a run for it’s money

[@jaybooth9168]

Most modern stuff nowadays would have no problem keeping up, even the diesel beemers.

[@mclovin583]

@@jaybooth9168 Exactly.

[@mclovin583]

Nah mate. Was fast, not now.

[@joshuaaaron125]

@@jaybooth9168it’s mad how technology and diesel engines have come along isn’t it!

[@bensmithkent22]

@@jaybooth9168330d or 335 would easily beat it. Different eras. I miss the times when a regular family ford or vauxhall had a rare desirable top model. That kind of died out with the original vectra gsi and st24 mondeo when people were all just desperate for 323i beemers.

[@peteredge3577]

How weird, I was only taking to a mate about this a few days ago. Nobody ever convicted!

[@ruperttristanblythe7512]

3.00 that’s my grandmother

[@davidpilgrim5664]

Wonder if it was ever solved.

[@CuriosSpiritual]

still unsolved

[@wangbow5755]

I was personally involved in this case. As I was arrested for this. A sawn off was found in the drain outside my flat, I was quite a heavy villain back then, I was awoken with a handfull of assault rifles pointing in my direction a couple of days after the robbery. I was 19, the interrogation I was given was levels above anything I've ever heard of. About 12 different ppl at different times. They thought and prob still think I was involved. I was under serious observation for a long time after this. Even when on holiday in Spain they moved next door to me. I don't think it's ever been solved.

[@ZZZ-js5oi]

If it wasnt made in the very late 80s or early to mid 90s, it aint worth driving. My 1993 Honda Prelude 2.2Vtec was a dream, my 1992 RS Turbo Fiesta was non stop fun! And my 1992 Cavalier GSI 2000 was .... Well she was 120mph in 3rd gear sort of love. Callimg all car manafacturers! Do yourself a favour, style them as they used to be and make them as they used to be! You will profit massivley!

[@thomasshepard6030]

I bought a Sierra RS COSWORTH IN THE EARLY 1990s for £5000 believe it or not it belonged to a minister of the Church of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 he had owned it from New it had only done 43 thousand miles it was dark grey metallic with black leather at the time insurance companies would not insure young drivers I was in my forties at the time so my insurance company had no problems with it fantastic car I ran it for about 2 years and sold it with the prices they go for now I wish I had put it in my garage and just left it there

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Servant's of god need fast cars to spread the word,wow thought they would have Honda,

[@dappergent9422]

The police man thought, 'What is that young man doing in a 25k Ford' I wonder what He'd think of today?

[@cwshtygriff13]

Pint of gold top please ‘ and a strawberry yogurt! NOW!!!

[@cwshtygriff13]

@@TommyTrombone77 🤣😂

[@williamrae9954]

Wonder if they ate their apples and oranges completely...like in Preston?

[@williamrae9954]

@@TommyTrombone77 Famous armed bank robbery, where the guys got caught because of the way they ate fruit...they kidnapped a bank manager and his family...famous case!

[@sundelight8230]

The cossie and the lotus Carlton two legends of the 90s lotus carlton stolen in birmingham 1993 plate 40RA.

[@kinglouis6974]

40RA out ran the police and they had the chopper on it lol

[@milky7078]

Not sure if it’s just me but when they show u the back of the cars number plate it looks like the K and B as been cut out an stuck over the original letters

[@dannywickens3368]

Proper behaviour,the sierra 4x4 could just about hold firmer on a roundabout. What times we had😂

[@Connellski1986]

Wonder if the car is still on the road today

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Can’t get screen grab but before the robbery it has the original plate

[@MuscleBandit]

Fair play to the lads for getting away with it if you're reading the comments, that would have been a long stretch of porridge for 10k split 3 ways.

[@k20aa]

Why is there no more Crime watch any more ? You dont get these good old fashioned raids anymore Everyone wants to rob you on a computer Superb 😂👍👍👍👍

[@CuriosSpiritual]

If you watch the newer Crimewatch episodes the quality is awful, The acting 🎭 was spot on and they most of the times used the same cars that were involved in the raids and murders, 1996 onwards you start to see the cracks.police was dumping any crime they couldn’t solve which was local shop robberies or drunks at a pub, viewing figures dropped which is what happens when you mess with stuff and drop budget

[@wilspu5590]

Was the Beatles

[@jondrizzle4554]

Wow my uncle bought a brand new sapphire cosworth 4x4 in flint grey on a H plate Picked it up from hooleys garage then went to makro shopping in Nottingham, and it got fkin nicked 😂 There was a xr4x4 left in its place !! Great nostalgic video ,thanks new sub

[@gavinthomas7375]

My nan had a face like that mask.

[@jackbuff_I]

I love a Cossy!!!

[@AvtarDhillon]

I remember this on crime watch

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Cosworth

[@richardclarke376]

Safe to say they got away with it !

[@lmc1dj]

That poor Cosworth.😂

[@cameronbrown9080]

They were very lucky not to have been nicked and you can bet on it They would have been given big time for it 😊😊😊

[@markwebster5749]

Can’t beat the cosworth

[@bigdog4865]

Talking about cosworths I no a team who took one from Northumbria police compound for the engine and the box .. the shells in the wear that team did have some balls

[@Rcjc1984]

All well and good but did his horse win

[@Ramblingpete]

25 k then boy that was expensive or there cheap now 👍🏿🤪

[@thatboy8991]

Anyone know what the mask is the robber is wearing in the cosworth?

[@damiencrowley2506]

Did they ever catch them?

[@markelliott6987]

Did they catch them in the end?

[@CuriosSpiritual]

Couldn’t find anything about the case being solved, it was mentioned as still unsolved 3 years after in an article about depot closing down

[@paulfisher6918]

I wonder why they took the rear boot spoiler off ???

[@CuriosSpiritual]

The actual car is used but during the getaway a copy is used that BBC created, maybe the owner didn’t want it in a chase

[@hugoagogo9435]

0:56 old rover v8 and a tidy xr3i. Good times. Who knew then that cars would end up as boring as they are now

[@Tiffany.1970]

You don't see crime watch no more on tv .... Also saw a classic senator and a moonstone blue Sierra cosworth....in this video .....

[@imac-hunt]

Ive still got my cossy 🤣😂🤣

[@darrenobrien1546]

The best armed robbers back in the day were the scousers