As I'm a big chap ( 6 foot 4, 28 stone.. ) I need a roomy car / van, so on the basis that I've been driving my escort van quite comfortably for the past 9 years I thought I'll get another one the same.
I went to look at an escort van this evening going on the assumption that it looked exactly like the one I have now, the only visible difference ( besides the rust ) is the instrument panel..
mine is an N reg, the one I went to look at was a Y reg..
for some strange reason, I didn't fit in it comfortably..
they must have changed a whole host of things in such a subtle way that it made the driver compartment smaller..
the seat was the kind that tilts, whereas mine isn't, so maybe there is an inch there, the dash may have been made an inch deeper ( making the steering column an inch closer ) and they may have brought the bulkhead behind the driver forward by an inch...
I went to look at an escort van this evening going on the assumption that it looked exactly like the one I have now, the only visible difference ( besides the rust ) is the instrument panel..
mine is an N reg, the one I went to look at was a Y reg..
for some strange reason, I didn't fit in it comfortably..
they must have changed a whole host of things in such a subtle way that it made the driver compartment smaller..
the seat was the kind that tilts, whereas mine isn't, so maybe there is an inch there, the dash may have been made an inch deeper ( making the steering column an inch closer ) and they may have brought the bulkhead behind the driver forward by an inch...