Tonight's Weakest Link

[wideboy]

There was a question tonight which Anne Robinson started but never finished. It mentioned a Ford Escort being sold for �300,000. Anyone know what the answer would have been? Whose was it? Google hasn't helped for once.

[madein1978]

I think it was an Escort World Rally Championships car, an Escort only in name, far more technically advanced than anything Ford put on the road!

[wideboy]

Thanks, madein1978, but Donnamp found that it was Princess Diana' Ford Escort (present from Charles) - sold in 1998.

[Ethel]

Found this - could this be the reference?


"The asking price is considerably higher than that for the Ford Escort of Diana, Princess of Wales which was sold for �300,000 in 1998,..."

[wideboy]

Thanks Ethel, was that the Times article? Should have said that Donnamp's answer was in the Quizzes & Puzzles section.

[madein1978]

Who'd have thought it! A Ford Escort in 1998 brand new would have cost from �10k, but because it has got the name Diana Windsor on the logbook, it increases 30 times! Hope whoever bought it is looking after it!

[Pippa68]

Not only that, madein1978 it was probably one he bought her in 1981..another Escort of the same year would probably set you back around �50 :o)