No blurred windows so you can’t see the professional driver doing the driving, no over dubbed music so we can’t hear the engine, no constant quick flicking from shot to shot just proper driving by the actual presenter and a chance to look at the car properly, they were the days for both cars and tv.
Some bloke got the UK land speed record for a production car years back in one of those , he tuned his Cossie to 1000bhp and hit 220 mph sadly the man who produced that magic passed away in 2018 but what a brilliant engine in that car
1980s TV producers: "Shall we make sure the car is at least clean before we point a camera at it? Y'know, because Ford might want it to look its best for potential buyers?" "Nah, fuck it! Drive it through rain-soaked pig farm before hand."
The old Sapphire looks so soft & wallowing nowadays. Never the most dynamic of drives or great handling- it was all about the turbo power. Things have indeed moved on
jeppemichael true- but then you could buy contemporary 205 or Golf GTi’s that handled superbly- . Sierra had decent straight line go- but poor chassis dynamics
@@chrismc1977 Yep, the Sierra Sapphire RS when released already had a floorpan blueprint from a decade earlier, it had the torsional rigidity of a wet lettuce - the Escort Cosworth was the same, signed off in 89, and as as good as it looked, already had 80's architecture underneath with flexy semi trailing arms supported by a soggy rear beam, only the Group A boys sorted that out
msagoo29 exactly. A cult car, but road going versions only had horsepower & the ability to turn them up to attract the masses....still a Sierra in the twisties :-/
Back in the early nineties my mate had a BBR400 tuned Sapphire Cosworth. The fastest car I had ever been in. It would beat super bikes at traffic light grand prix. It ended up getting featured in Max Power magazine. Rocket ship of a car.
Johnswell is still a car nut he had a lancia delta 2.0 Hf integrale he took it to Santa pod to a run what you brung I think it was an all Italian night.He said he was holding it at about 5k revs at the lights and just dumping the cluch it was catapulting off the line and he was blowing everything away, a guy came over and asked if he would run against him in a safire cosie johnswell said no problem he told me he did exactly the same on the line he looked in the door mirror as he set off and seen the cosie fish tailing and smoke everywhere johnswell said he hit third gear and the cosie came past him like a missile turns out it was 500 hrspers 😂might have been yr mate. Strange thing is I remember when instance rocketed you couldn't give em away 🤙
Yeah I remember when 3drs was about 6 grand second hand. Insurance was huge. I had a Nova GSi in 1995 and that cost my 800 quid a year then and had to have a cat 1 alarm and immobiliser fitted or no Insurance company would cover me.
Man, those were the days. Me and my brother used to get so hyped if we saw a cossie on the road back then in the late 80s early 90s. As true as it is that they were supercar quick (almost) back then, the Japanese were also making some properly fast cars. 89 saw the release of the R32 GTR, Toyota already had the 1JZGTE in numerous models, Mazdas 13B turbo was in the S4 and S5 RX7, Mitsubishi had VR4 Galants and Subaru RS legacys. Hondas B16a VTEC engine released in 89 was a gem and the civics and integras that powered were featherweight. The golden era of cars for me. Should have snapped a few up 10 years ago before the price skyrocketed!
I remember being at Donnington on a track day with my mate in his golf VR 6 on a Monday after the touring cars. Paul radisich was there and Harvey ect, he was taking the owner of a sapphire cosy round the track 4 up and sideways everywhere bloody amazing skill. Unfortunately the owner must have thought it was easy I remember seeing it later and the back doors wouldn't shut as it hobbled out of the venue.Johnswell my maternity an excellent driver with a lot of track experience got well and truly stuffed we were going thru craner curves flat out when radisich came past us five up in another standard VR6 and preceeded to leave us in his fumes 💨 we couldn't believe it! Great video loved it 👌
When I was in my late teens and early 20s I used to watch foreign movies just so I could see the European Fords. It was mind blowing how bad the small US Escorts and other Fords compared to what you had across the water. My Dad bought new 1980 Fiesta Sport and became my car. I installed Euro suspension, wheels, and other parts ordered from BAT and dreamed of the XR2!
@@richardstorier6172 HAD MALLARD BIG TURBO ESCORT IN GARAGE 25 YRS NOW NEVER SELLING ITPAID 15K WHEN LOW PRICES VALUED NOW 82K NICE INVESTMENTS AND HOOLIGAN MOBILES LOL LIKE MK2 RS2000 LOTUS SUNBEAMS GREAT CARS TO THROW ABOUT
It’s very well done at brooklands, I went to auto Italia there few years back, would definitely recommend to anyone interested in that sort of thing. Lovely grounds!
4:33 when is the last time you saw real engineers using one of those in the background? Oh, and polishing the ports, by hand. Do they do that today? Make sports cars lite again!
Topgear is a load of crap now. this was more informative years ago . those clowns on topgear playing with there toys that no one can afford like general public.that clown paddy mcguiness freddy who ever his name is . It's waste of time watching it now. it needs that old format back people with brains in the car trade like Mike brewer
O remember a guy walking in to a police maintenance department at a Manchester police worksop in gorton Manchester and just nicking one ragged it around with light's and siren going and then torched it
Back in the early nineties my mate had a BBR400 tuned Sapphire Cosworth. The fastest car I had ever been in. It would beat super bikes at traffic light grand prix. It ended up getting featured in Max Power magazine. Rocket ship of a car.
Your right though. 19 grand was a lot of money back then. Every time I got close to owning a real RS the price went up. Should of bought the magenta red cosworth for 5 grand in 2009. It would be worth about 20 now.
Redline Ste It IS amazing how a good one has appreciated in value these days . Nowadays I just have to be happy to have my petrol Grand C Max re- mapped to 200 hp. Oh well...
Remember, they weren't 4000lbs either. New BMW X6 competition just arrived at our dealer. Horsepower over 600, weight, I can't count that high. It does sound fantastic though.
The clip of the sapphire cosworth doing smoking drifts was the sight of every owners car as it left their driveway in the 80’s 🤣
Ah, back when Top Gear was a programme about cars 😮
Before Jeremy Clarkson and the other 2 clowns ruined it
To be fair, it was the most popular TV show
In the world.
@@garethjones8047The first few season/year of CHM 2002 Top Gear is fine, but it went downhill years later even before their departure to Amazon.
Spot on. This format was the best. Can’t stand that miserable James May and Hammond.
Wise up@@StephenH-ms9og
didnt know goffey was a great wheel man! loved this video.
He wasn't! He spun it the fist time!!
No blurred windows so you can’t see the professional driver doing the driving, no over dubbed music so we can’t hear the engine, no constant quick flicking from shot to shot just proper driving by the actual presenter and a chance to look at the car properly, they were the days for both cars and tv.
Some bloke got the UK land speed record for a production car years back in one of those , he tuned his Cossie to 1000bhp and hit 220 mph sadly the man who produced that magic passed away in 2018 but what a brilliant engine in that car
Rod tarry
It's on TH-cam
@@jondrizzle4554 Cheers 🥂 il look that up 👍
@christineayres7199 it was on 5th gear around 2005 with tiff needell driving it
206mph I think it clocked
@@jondrizzle4554 Amazing 🤩
When Top Gear was good😎👍👌!
I thought he was about to burn his hand after he opened the bonnet 😆
Thought Clarkson was at the wheel. Goff can really drive.
is that why he spun it?!
1980s TV producers:
"Shall we make sure the car is at least clean before we point a camera at it? Y'know, because Ford might want it to look its best for potential buyers?"
"Nah, fuck it! Drive it through rain-soaked pig farm before hand."
D reg....87....great days
@@Wardy5 C Reg...most cars sold ever that year. As in new registrations. Good times!
To think now i drive a ford fiesta 1.6t with 230bhp how things have moved on
Yes but nowhere near as cool
my 1999 BMW E38 728I has 200bhp and will do 150mph .
The old Sapphire looks so soft & wallowing nowadays. Never the most dynamic of drives or great handling- it was all about the turbo power. Things have indeed moved on
It's amazing how much they command on the classic car market for such an antiquated driving experience
msagoo29 yes indeed.
jeppemichael true- but then you could buy contemporary 205 or Golf GTi’s that handled superbly- . Sierra had decent straight line go- but poor chassis dynamics
@@chrismc1977 Yep, the Sierra Sapphire RS when released already had a floorpan blueprint from a decade earlier, it had the torsional rigidity of a wet lettuce - the Escort Cosworth was the same, signed off in 89, and as as good as it looked, already had 80's architecture underneath with flexy semi trailing arms supported by a soggy rear beam, only the Group A boys sorted that out
msagoo29 exactly. A cult car, but road going versions only had horsepower & the ability to turn them up to attract the masses....still a Sierra in the twisties :-/
God knows what I would do to own one of these things for just an hour.
red 3 door!! nice
Hard to believe that it was only just over 200HP, that is nothing today what has happened to performance?
Back in the early nineties my mate had a BBR400 tuned Sapphire Cosworth. The fastest car I had ever been in. It would beat super bikes at traffic light grand prix. It ended up getting featured in Max Power magazine. Rocket ship of a car.
Johnswell is still a car nut he had a lancia delta 2.0 Hf integrale he took it to Santa pod to a run what you brung I think it was an all Italian night.He said he was holding it at about 5k revs at the lights and just dumping the cluch it was catapulting off the line and he was blowing everything away, a guy came over and asked if he would run against him in a safire cosie johnswell said no problem he told me he did exactly the same on the line he looked in the door mirror as he set off and seen the cosie fish tailing and smoke everywhere johnswell said he hit third gear and the cosie came past him like a missile turns out it was 500 hrspers 😂might have been yr mate. Strange thing is I remember when instance rocketed you couldn't give em away 🤙
INSURANCE!! FFS IT AIN'T MY DAY
Yeah I remember when 3drs was about 6 grand second hand. Insurance was huge. I had a Nova GSi in 1995 and that cost my 800 quid a year then and had to have a cat 1 alarm and immobiliser fitted or no Insurance company would cover me.
Redline Ste - no car beats a bike. Simpleton.
@@markfox1545 This Cosworth could match most bikes of the mark. Not as fast as a bike but could give them a good run for the money pal.
19k! Wow
Was the engine able to take unleaded fuel?
Cant remember to be honest. Red cam cover.
🥰 ❤
Cars untaxed since 1993 lol no mot details by the DVLA thought someone would still be using it
Prob in a motor museum sadly
Rek....arrow seats
That's a cheap looking flying jacket
Man, those were the days. Me and my brother used to get so hyped if we saw a cossie on the road back then in the late 80s early 90s. As true as it is that they were supercar quick (almost) back then, the Japanese were also making some properly fast cars. 89 saw the release of the R32 GTR, Toyota already had the 1JZGTE in numerous models, Mazdas 13B turbo was in the S4 and S5 RX7, Mitsubishi had VR4 Galants and Subaru RS legacys. Hondas B16a VTEC engine released in 89 was a gem and the civics and integras that powered were featherweight. The golden era of cars for me. Should have snapped a few up 10 years ago before the price skyrocketed!
Chris goffey, well I never knew you could drive like that...
Back when top gear was worth watching
Tell me you're anhedonic without telling me you're anhedonic...
I remember being at Donnington on a track day with my mate in his golf VR 6 on a Monday after the touring cars. Paul radisich was there and Harvey ect, he was taking the owner of a sapphire cosy round the track 4 up and sideways everywhere bloody amazing skill. Unfortunately the owner must have thought it was easy I remember seeing it later and the back doors wouldn't shut as it hobbled out of the venue.Johnswell my maternity an excellent driver with a lot of track experience got well and truly stuffed we were going thru craner curves flat out when radisich came past us five up in another standard VR6 and preceeded to leave us in his fumes 💨 we couldn't believe it! Great video loved it 👌
i love my 2wd saph cossie in 2020, such a good car, well done Ford and Cosworth.
When I was in my late teens and early 20s I used to watch foreign movies just so I could see the European Fords. It was mind blowing how bad the small US Escorts and other Fords compared to what you had across the water. My Dad bought new 1980 Fiesta Sport and became my car. I installed Euro suspension, wheels, and other parts ordered from BAT and dreamed of the XR2!
Had a white cossie in my garage for the last 30 years
@@richardstorier6172 HAD MALLARD BIG TURBO ESCORT IN GARAGE 25 YRS NOW NEVER SELLING ITPAID 15K WHEN LOW PRICES VALUED NOW 82K NICE INVESTMENTS AND HOOLIGAN MOBILES LOL LIKE MK2 RS2000 LOTUS SUNBEAMS GREAT CARS TO THROW ABOUT
It’s very well done at brooklands, I went to auto Italia there few years back, would definitely recommend to anyone interested in that sort of thing. Lovely grounds!
2:36 I thought he was going to get a bit out of shape then but that was a nice bit of drifting by the Goff.
Imagine if they used the other parts of their names TinDuck instead of CosWorth?
How on earth did you find this segment? I’m very curious.
Legendary cars, these cars are so iconic in the UK now.
Your right. A hero car for me.
When road tester's knew their onions !
t5jerry that sounds violent!
Lovely Jubbly, wouldn't mind going back to the late 80's.
The 80's was the last great decade.
DOHC 16-V TURBO FORD COSWORTH. Love the cam cover on these.
4:33 when is the last time you saw real engineers using one of those in the background?
Oh, and polishing the ports, by hand. Do they do that today?
Make sports cars lite again!
Back in the days when men were men and women still women. Cars were not so obese and looked pretty cool and were affordable!
clarkson cant fit in one ,hammond cant reach the peddals and may cant drive .
Look at the last bit, diesel £1.60 per gallon, not per litre!
That red Sierra is still going and is actually for sale on Autotrader at the moment.
Yes about 65 grand. Probably be worth more in a year or two.
@@redlineste4283 PROB RE SPRAY AS HANDFULL RED CARS IN RHD THERES NUMBERS SOMEWHERE AND THINK ALL 2WD
What a wally 😊
Absolutely Ragging that cossie 😂💪🏻
Ok.....who owns that Red Sierra Cosworth?
Its for sale now, one of one
@@martinandreas6486 how much?
@@richarddutchholland4780 65k
@@martinandreas6486 pretty good considering how much they’ve been selling for! Is there a link anywhere?
Topgear is a load of crap now. this was more informative years ago . those clowns on topgear playing with there toys that no one can afford like general public.that clown paddy mcguiness freddy who ever his name is . It's waste of time watching it now. it needs that old format back people with brains in the car trade like Mike brewer
I use to own that Sapphire!
Chris Goffey and Willy Woollard. And who knew Goffey could drive like that?!
The beginning was how a sapph should be driven
Excellent video 😊
19k new! Cant get one for that now in 2023!
O remember a guy walking in to a police maintenance department at a Manchester police worksop in gorton Manchester and just nicking one ragged it around with light's and siren going and then torched it
I thought it was nicked from a Ford garage by the footie ground?
The video of it being ragged and torched is on TH-cam
Love it. Ragging it big time.
Brilliant!
Maternity? MATE 😂typo
Back in the early nineties my mate had a BBR400 tuned Sapphire Cosworth. The fastest car I had ever been in. It would beat super bikes at traffic light grand prix. It ended up getting featured in Max Power magazine. Rocket ship of a car.
£19k in 1988! I can't believe he said that was good value. I bought a flat in 1994 for £42,5k.
And now the price of stuff is insane. A second hand Focus ST for 25 grand.
Your right though. 19 grand was a lot of money back then. Every time I got close to owning a real RS the price went up. Should of bought the magenta red cosworth for 5 grand in 2009. It would be worth about 20 now.
Redline Ste It IS amazing how a good one has appreciated in value these days . Nowadays I just have to be happy to have my petrol Grand C Max re- mapped to 200 hp. Oh well...
I bought a flat in 2003 for £30k. Spoiler- it wasn't in London.
@@weedaviec Sounds like a good buy mate. Mine wasn't in London but it was in the South East in North Hampshire
Cant believe that chief engineer was talking about quality. They may have been quick, but as for longevity, forget it.
I absolutely loathed Chris Goffey.
Bellend,chris goffey was the best topgear presenter of all followed by william woollard
@@ivanfernyhough385190s Clarkson and Tiff for me
My vauxhall Astra gte 16V was nearly as quick as the Sierra cosworth..
They weren't a patch on a cosworth, sorry 😂
@@jondrizzle4554 I’ve raced them many times have you? Sorry 😊
Supercar performance? What 204bhp😂
In 1988 that was a very fast road car. As powerful as a Ferrari 308.
Ford wanted 180hp for the road version but Cosworth refused; 204hp was already significantly detuned from race spec
Remember, they weren't 4000lbs either. New BMW X6 competition just arrived at our dealer. Horsepower over 600, weight, I can't count that high. It does sound fantastic though.
@@redlineste4283 the vauxhall astra 16V was nearly as quick as the Sierra cosworth..
In 1988 it was. Faster than a Ferrari 308.