My dad had quite a few 1.8L’s on the company car fleet. We were always an “L” family apart from when we had a GL that still didn’t have electric windows.
I always liked the Sierra, I used to own a much newer one, a Polaris Grey Sapphire 1.8 LX, J903GHU, and I liked it very much. Nice brochure review, i enjoyed that. Keep them coming! The most basic Sierra is very fascinating as I've never seen one in this form. Imagine seeing a basic one (not even an L) in Citrine Yellow! You can make out the blank plate where the clock would normally be, and the 'grille' on the basic green hatchback looks to be black. Also, just around the corner from my house, there used to be a D reg Sierra estate that was still in daily use right up until last July when its last MOT ran out. It was D133UTA, a Willow Green 2.0 GL estate, just like the one featured on the first page in fact. It's not there anymore now sadly😢. But it's always so interesting to see an old car you know very well, and what it looked like when it was new, in this brochure.
I can remember seeing Escorts and Fiestas in citrine yellow. I can remember seeing yellow Sierras in Bournemouth but they were Taxis and Bournemouth Taxis were yellow to match the Bournemouth buses. My first car was an 1988 Escort 1.3 popular in Rosso red, that colour would eventually fade and go pinkish. I remember that the 2.3 diesel being very noisy and rough, I'm sure it was a Peugeot design. I did love the shape of the hatchback better. The blocked off area on the passenger side of the dashboard I'm sure it was a storage area but it got blocked off if you chose the ABS option. This was an 1987 brochure so it would have been the mk 2 cavalier, the mk 3 cavalier came out in 1988 after the summer
Mine as a ross red 1.3 laze mk3 escort loved and felt so sad when the scrap man took it away was on concoled that I had a 1yr old to managed green mk6 1.6cl they were ford's best day's
@@jennydonne8946 my dad bought a 87 yellow 5 door 1.8 ohc we put the ghia bumpers on bought brand new rs 500 whale tail spoiler and side skirts.Front mesh grille. Zebring exhaust From behind it looked like a 3 door cossie. Loved it.. Stood out too
My Dad took delivery of E598 XHS - a black Sapphire 2.0i Ghia - as a company car back in '87. It looked great, went well and provided reliable family motoring well into the 90's (he got to keep the car as part of a redundancy package). Fond memories of a great car!
Loving all your videos trips down memory lane,! My dad had 2 sierra estates as his own company car but he was a sale rep and went all over Europe a couple of times a year as the company listed it cars when he went to Europe he had to swop this car to ones that had lower mileage so we would have a sapphire or caverlar even the big bosses BMW but loved the Sierra wanted xr4x4 or ghia 4x4 estate E2000 sapphire
The non injection.. Well single point 1.8 LX CVH last models sapphires were the best all parts binned added colour coded bumpers mirrors.. Pretty nippy too and economical. Worked at ford dealer we had 8 900 brand new for PDI inspection before sale. They all got the huge drift around the huge potatoe sheds once finished and red lined on the rev counter... Clean the cobwebs out. We all learned how to drift rwd cars in our youth... The sheds were huge..
Well that was a nice car even if rust bucket (especially early models). The thing that wonders me mostly about decisions on the Sierra is: the Probe III concept car had more conservative and appropriate front end, still Ford managers have gone too wild. Restyled car looked much better of course. As for RWD - it never made Sierra any worse than Cavalier/Golf IMO even on icy roads. Such a shame I never had a chance to see Ghia models - most of them were low-spec ones (imported from Germany).
I seem to remember hearing that the South African domestic Sierra had a V8 engine as at least one engine option. I come back to your presentation, and focus on that manual transmission. The Ford Ranger from Thailand dropped manual transmission altogether for being so unpopular. My employer does have an earlier model which retains this option. Thanks for that huge Sierra catalogue presentation. ❤🌈👍👌📸💚🌎🗽
@@quarterlight thats very interesting to hear 👂, Such a huge range of engines, I did expect at least one diesel option. Including a 4x4 also an estate option made it so popular.👍👌📸💚🌎🗽
Recently bought a 1985 build Sierra mk 1 1.8 Laser. Curious as to what the standard spec was, mine has a 5 speed gearbox, a sunroof and rear spoiler, were these standard?
They always were such attractive cars, the Saffire not the least Great to drive, and the dashboard layout was absolutely superior!! Even so, I would always choose the wonderful Montego.
10:28 stowage is a real word, not a spelling error of storage lol. From Auto Kit: "Storage is the act of placing material or other supplies on board. *Stowage* relates to the act of securing those items stored in such a manner that they do not shift or move during transit." 😜
My dad had quite a few 1.8L’s on the company car fleet.
We were always an “L” family apart from when we had a GL that still didn’t have electric windows.
I always liked the Sierra, I used to own a much newer one, a Polaris Grey Sapphire 1.8 LX, J903GHU, and I liked it very much. Nice brochure review, i enjoyed that. Keep them coming! The most basic Sierra is very fascinating as I've never seen one in this form. Imagine seeing a basic one (not even an L) in Citrine Yellow! You can make out the blank plate where the clock would normally be, and the 'grille' on the basic green hatchback looks to be black. Also, just around the corner from my house, there used to be a D reg Sierra estate that was still in daily use right up until last July when its last MOT ran out. It was D133UTA, a Willow Green 2.0 GL estate, just like the one featured on the first page in fact. It's not there anymore now sadly😢. But it's always so interesting to see an old car you know very well, and what it looked like when it was new, in this brochure.
Thank you for your interesting comment much appreciated
I’d own all the Ford Sierra Hatchbacks & Saloon Sapphires as well
I can remember seeing Escorts and Fiestas in citrine yellow. I can remember seeing yellow Sierras in Bournemouth but they were Taxis and Bournemouth Taxis were yellow to match the Bournemouth buses. My first car was an 1988 Escort 1.3 popular in Rosso red, that colour would eventually fade and go pinkish. I remember that the 2.3 diesel being very noisy and rough, I'm sure it was a Peugeot design. I did love the shape of the hatchback better. The blocked off area on the passenger side of the dashboard I'm sure it was a storage area but it got blocked off if you chose the ABS option. This was an 1987 brochure so it would have been the mk 2 cavalier, the mk 3 cavalier came out in 1988 after the summer
Mine as a ross red 1.3 laze mk3 escort loved and felt so sad when the scrap man took it away was on concoled that I had a 1yr old to managed green mk6 1.6cl they were ford's best day's
Thank you for you comment appreciate your info your correct the Mk3 Cav was Oct 1988
@@jennydonne8946 my dad bought a 87 yellow 5 door 1.8 ohc
we put the ghia bumpers on bought brand new rs 500 whale tail spoiler and side skirts.Front mesh grille. Zebring exhaust
From behind it looked like a 3 door cossie.
Loved it.. Stood out too
Don't forget the sierra sapphire cosworth 4x4 borchure in this channel
My Dad took delivery of E598 XHS - a black Sapphire 2.0i Ghia - as a company car back in '87. It looked great, went well and provided reliable family motoring well into the 90's (he got to keep the car as part of a redundancy package). Fond memories of a great car!
Lovely trim level
Loving all your videos trips down memory lane,! My dad had 2 sierra estates as his own company car but he was a sale rep and went all over Europe a couple of times a year as the company listed it cars when he went to Europe he had to swop this car to ones that had lower mileage so we would have a sapphire or caverlar even the big bosses BMW but loved the Sierra wanted xr4x4 or ghia 4x4 estate E2000 sapphire
Thank you for your comment, like you I have always enjoy thinking back to cars that I have known.
Sapphire 2000E and V6 4x4 Ghia estates were awesome cars. A real cut above similar-sized rivals I always thought.
Not a cheap car new though I kinda remember
@@quarterlight Gosh no! When they were both on sale, I think they were around £19,000. In 1989!
Quite a lot considering my Dads 1.8 L Sapphire in 1988 was £9,999
The XR4x4 for me please! 😃 Looks great in red.
The non injection.. Well single point 1.8 LX CVH last models sapphires were the best all parts binned added colour coded bumpers mirrors.. Pretty nippy too and economical.
Worked at ford dealer we had 8 900 brand new for PDI inspection before sale.
They all got the huge drift around the huge potatoe sheds once finished and red lined on the rev counter...
Clean the cobwebs out.
We all learned how to drift rwd cars in our youth... The sheds were huge..
Well that was a nice car even if rust bucket (especially early models). The thing that wonders me mostly about decisions on the Sierra is: the Probe III concept car had more conservative and appropriate front end, still Ford managers have gone too wild. Restyled car looked much better of course. As for RWD - it never made Sierra any worse than Cavalier/Golf IMO even on icy roads. Such a shame I never had a chance to see Ghia models - most of them were low-spec ones (imported from Germany).
I seem to remember hearing that the South African domestic Sierra had a V8 engine as at least one engine option.
I come back to your presentation, and focus on that manual transmission.
The Ford Ranger from Thailand dropped manual transmission altogether for being so unpopular.
My employer does have an earlier model which retains this option.
Thanks for that huge Sierra catalogue presentation.
❤🌈👍👌📸💚🌎🗽
Manual transmissions still the most popular choice in the UK by a very long way at this time.
@@quarterlight thats very interesting to hear 👂, Such a huge range of engines, I did expect at least one diesel option.
Including a 4x4 also an estate option made it so popular.👍👌📸💚🌎🗽
Recently bought a 1985 build Sierra mk 1 1.8 Laser. Curious as to what the standard spec was, mine has a 5 speed gearbox, a sunroof and rear spoiler, were these standard?
I think they tended to have a separate brochure which I don’t currently have.
They always were such attractive cars, the Saffire not the least Great to drive, and the dashboard layout was absolutely superior!! Even so, I would always choose the wonderful Montego.
10:28 stowage is a real word, not a spelling error of storage lol. From Auto Kit: "Storage is the act of placing material or other supplies on board. *Stowage* relates to the act of securing those items stored in such a manner that they do not shift or move during transit." 😜
Indeed thank you for that
Can you do a mk2 cavalier sri 130 brochure
I will certainly add it to the list of suggestions
Didn’t they rust! Sills, arches, doors especially around the windows.
D reg for danger.
They did but not like the 70s Fords
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A few mistakes in there fella.
Indeed hopefully it didn’t effect your viewing enjoyment too much.