MÜCKE BUSINESS
As far as origin stories go, you’ll find fewer more impressive or as impactful as that of the Escort Mexico. So well known is the tale of the birth of the sporting Escort that it can largely be told via a series of phrases, buzzwords and second-hand anecdotes and images — assuming of course that you’re significantly far down the old Ford rabbit warren to more readily associate ‘Mexico’ with ‘Escort’ than say, Tequila.
We doubt even Ford’s own Walter Hayes could’ve conceived of the impact his decision to dispatch five examples of the Escort from London to Mexico city way back in 1970, at least in the longterm. And yet the process he set in motion would lead to the creation of the most attainable and thus most accessible hot Escort of them all, a
