How can a simple Ford Escort fetch such a price at auction? Because it is a sporty youngtimer, but above all because its former owner is world famous.

Auctions can sometimes produce surprising results. For some models that simply do not sell, bids do not reach the minimum price. Or with other models, the prices of which sometimes soar to stratospheric levels. A Bugatti Type 35 sold for $5 million last summer, and a Talbot-Lago sold for $13.4 million this spring.

Friendly athlete

In a more reasonable register, non-premium brands can also surprise in this way Ford Escort. Here we emphasize that we are faced with a accompanimentwhich is not basic because it isRS Turbo S1. Developer 130 hp at 6000 rpm and 18.4 μg, this Escort could exceed 200 km/h, which not all of its competitors at the time managed. Regarding from 0 to 100 km/hhe was swallowed 8.9 seconds and a 1,000-meter standing start in less than 30 seconds. Very good performance for the time.

Everyone knows the owner

But what particularly pushed bidders to this model was its former owner. Him left the factory in 1985 until 1988 this Ford Escort RS Turbo S1 thus belonged Lady Dee, the Princess of Wales, who died in a tragic car accident in Paris just 25 years ago. During these three years, Diana was regularly photographed driving this Ford Escort and traveling 6000 miles behind the wheel (about 10,000 km).

Good condition

Then the car changed owners several times and currently remains in the village good overall condition. Its unique history and its first world-renowned owner contributed to it being auctioned on August 27 for £730,000 costs included during Silverstone Auctions. At current prices, this is an impressive sum 848,000 euros.