Actually I owned a black XR3i which was great until Vw brought out the Golf GTi which done my escort every time
I would have had that blue escort as my first car but dad scrapped it just before my 17th birthday in 1993 as the rear spring hangers rotted off and dropped the rear axle on the floor one night on his way back from work.
Honestly don’t know. Have been a member of RS owners club and became a member of AVO owners club and both forums want money to upgrade from the off. General chat is completely dead in both.
RSOC used to be good back in the day. Then it stopped working and just forwarded to another forum iirc