Just wondering as I saw some listings at £30k+:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?s=760
With this kind of money I can buy a Porshe… or get a 2nd hand one and stick a custom TPC turbo for less…
Probably because there’s only a handfull left - the rest were stolen, crashed & set on fire in Mancunian council estates in the early nineties 
this is one of theose “if you have to ask, you will never understand” questions 
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Lol… I was too young when they were out and about but sounds to me like a damn good investment for re-selling. Better profit than a house or just about anything else.
haha, sooo true
Is the correct answer.
The value of investments may go down as well as up…
because they are rare as hell and are rapid and they are the godfather of the ford underworld
My brother has had an unmodified Escort RS2000 Mk2 for years. He’s enjoying watching the value of his old boggo Escort with a Cortina engine and lump of funny plastic on the nose just rise and rise. Bloody hard ride and you can’t straddle speed cushions but my god, it’s fun to chuck around.
I was always a Vauxhall fan myself. Went through a Magnum, Cavalier Sportshatch and a Mk1 Astra SR when I was younger. The Magnum was great for hanging the tail out, the Cavvy was fast and well-balanced, but the Astra…
I bought the Astra as a wreck and had it repaired. I have no idea what the previous owner had done to it internally, but it had a K&N filter and I fitted a prototype 4-branch manifold by a little tuner in Grove Green Rd, Leytonstone. The ride was solid, the acceleration was fierce, but the best bit was the noise. At idle you could hear it sucking all of the oxygen out of the atmosphere and on the overrun it made an awesome sound. Before the days of speed cameras I had a non-stop race with a then new Audi 80E from the outskirts of SW London almost to Devon. He couldn’t stay with me below the ton but steadily caught and passed me at around 110. Not that I do this sort of stupid driving now, of course.
The place im working working at the moment has a lock up with 4 race prep mk1 escort rs. the security guard told me the £45000 each to make
In the 80’s almost every Formula 1 car (apart from Renault and Ferrari) raced using a Ford Cosworth engine. When Ford sold Cosworth designed engines for their road cars they were snapped up by petrol heads. They are not exactly rare. Over a 1100 Sierra Cosworths are still taxed according to DVLA and over 2000 are SORNed.
But there is a cozzie and there is a cozzie … Sierra Rs500 2 door cossie = classic car of heritage … Sierra 4 door saphy cossie = just a fast ford
Classic motor… End of… 
Damm fine cars in their day, my mate had a RS 500 and it was chipped to 500bhp. We used to race it round Castle Combe uninsured on the track, I used to sh*t myself every time
I took it for a lap as it was worth £30k in 1983.
And there are far more of the former than the latter both licensed and SORNed. About 60% of Cosworths on the road are RS.
What is surprising is how few non-Cosworth Sierras there are. Ten years ago there were 57,000 Sierra LX on the road. Last year there were 61. Puts the Cosworth stats in perspective.
[NB that is just the standard LX model, there are about a thousand other non-Cosworth Sierra models on the road]
The top end of the range always last the longest . If you see a granada its the 2.8 ghia , If you see a cavalier its the Sri 130 , Lotus cortina , SD1 3.5 Vanden plas etc . The bog standard cars just get crushed .
i drove a chipped 4wd drive saph cosworth once. it was very fast (but still a ford and plasticy). moments later someone stuck it in a tree.
it’s just a ford thing, look at the values of all of the top end models in a range and you’ll see some crazy prices;
Mk1 Fiesta Supersport
Mk1 Fiesta XR2
MK1 escorts, in particular RS1600’s
MK2 escorts, RS1800, RS2000
MK3 escorts, RS1600i, RS Turbo
and then the sierras you mentioned, 3 door, both standard cossie and in RS500 guise and then the sapp’s
The money people ask, and get, for all of the above is crazy. Don’t get me wrong, they’re cool cars and i’ve had most of the above, but that was when they were at sensible prices. But when you can buy a BMW M3 for less money than any of the above, they just don’t make any sense.
If you buy a perfect example of any fast ford, then you can’t really use it in a way in which it was meant to be used, as you’ll just wipe the value off it, and as much as I’d love a really nice series 1 RS Turbo in the garage, I’m not about to go out and sink 10k into something I can’t use.
I also can’t help but feel that you’ll see the prices of all of these types of cars drop away in the near future, as there’ll be a certain saturation point for both number of buyers and cars available.
Of course, but 57k to 61 is pretty dramatic.