2 Ltr Ghia i (Ford Granada/Scorpio)

Member Name: fitz

Product:	Ford Granada/Scorpio
Date:	22/10/00 (185 review reads)
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Advantages: Comfort, luxury and size.

Disadvantages: Parking(its big), and fuel comsumption.

Well what can I say, Having just lost my beloved Volvo to that great car park in the sky I had to find some new wheels.
A friend of mine was getting rid of a 1990 Granada 2Ltr Ghia i as his father in law had just given him his old car.
I wasn't sure that I wanted a Ford ( Fix Or Repair Daily ), but after a short test drive I was hooked.
Slight rust on the wheel arches and a broken drivers door handle were the only things wrong with the car.
The 2 litre engine provides more than enough power to enrage Nova boy racers and with the automatic gearbox and superb suspension it is like driving an armchair.
Fuel ecomony is not that much worse that the old Volvo at around 28 - 35 mpg depending on town or motorway driving.
But as a gadget freak I am like a pig in the brown sticky stuff with this car. Overhead disply shows the time, date, outside temperature and it even has a built in stopwatch which is accurate to 1/10 of a second. Next to the dashboard the on-board computer gives you the current mpg, the average mpg, the fuel used and the number of miles left in the tank. All of these can be set to imperial or metric and they can also be reset whenever you want, ie just filled up with petrol.
Talking of petrol the tank is huge, at todays UK prices it costs around £45 to fill the tank.
The dashboard itself has a little line drawing of the car which does a thest of the lights so that you can tell if you have abrake light out before you drive away.

All in all a great car to drive and the only car I have had yet that actually makes me want to drive slowly because it is so smooth.

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