Faults:

Absolutely nothing yet.

General Comments:

What can you say: For £400 with 12 Months MOT, we got a Very Fast, Very Comfortable V6 MotoCruiser.

The Ghia X (about '91 onwards) is basically a Scorpio without the air con, electric seats or the option of leather. This one has:

Electric windows/mirrors

Heated seats

Full original stereo with six speakers

Cruise control

ABS

Central locking

And luckily ours had only two owners from new, one of them being a company hire car business. Anyway, so it does about 22MPG in the city, and 35MPG on the motorway. It's loud, powerful and comfortable, reliable so far and very good fun.

Faults:

My anti-lock brakes do not work and the previous owner used replacement brake pads without wear indicators.

General Comments:

This car is full of gadgets.

The car handles well for its size.

The seats are very comfortable and they are heated.

The car literally drives itself.

Faults:

Auto gearbox oil seal leak.

Front suspension bushes breaking up.

General Comments:

A truly fantastic motorway cruiser with superb V6 power. The aircon in the 2.9 is much more capable than in the smaller engined cars and by 1991 Ford had got to grips with most (but not quite all) of the problems. Petrol is on the heavy side but the reliability and ridiculous cheapness of spares (compared to BMW, Merc. or Jag) helps the matter of running costs considerably.

If you want a cheap, mega milemuncher and you want 21st century luxury along with it, this is the car!

Faults:

Starter motor failed twice and the electrics are a joke. Heated seats don't work at all and the air con only works in the winter!!

General Comments:

After 138,000 miles the car still goes well, but thirsty (27-30mpg).

Lots of space and very cheap to run.

Ford dealers are a joke.

Faults:

Sunroof pipes blocked.

Warped discs ( twice ).

Starter motor.

Central locking goes mad and opens and shuts itself.

Running roughly when cold - temperature sender wiring fault.

Clutch .

Windscreen demister element failed.

General Comments:

This is an unbelievably good car, had it for four years. Drives like new at 85K, great comfort, space controls, gearchange, brakes, handling. DOHC engine very responsive overall 33mpg amazing for car size. Can drive for hours in total comfort, unlike most cars.

My wife has had four cars (soon to be 5!) in this space of time as none of hers as been as good as my Ford. I am currently looking for a much newer one as I fancy an auto.

Faults:

Rear dampers got soft at 75,000 miles but this is to be expected as the car is often carrying a high weight in the boot, and is also used for towing.

The headlights are always a bit poor on dipped beam on Granada's (Scorpio shape), but the main beams are fine.

The drivers side heated seat stopped heating at 95,000 miles, but now appears to be working again (at 110,0000)?

Other than that, no problems.

General Comments:

The twin cam engine is a vast improvement on the single cam which I owned previously. The fuel consumption is fair for the size of engine. (It depends on how you drive it).

Mine averages 37 mpg but this can go up to 44-5 mpg on a steady run at 65 - 70 mph. It drops to 28 mpg towing a 24cwt twin axle caravan.

If you bought a fairly new model a year or three ago, because of the high depreciation on the price from new, the cost is very cheap for what you get.

I would rate this model as Fords best kept secret, now sadly replaced by the 'ugly frog'.