Ford Escort RS2000
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (4) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
A genuinely Australian-built fast Ford with a fixed, known production run, riding a model family whose Mk1 flagship just doubled its auction record. Good two-doors are already hard to find.
No published Australian Mk2 transaction anchors the figure, and the spectacular results that make headlines belong to the Mk1 - a different and far dearer car that flatters this one by association.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
$37,000 at 29,641km in January 2026, $36,780 at 49,923km in August 2026, $30,000 at 84,642km in December 2023 and $28,500 at 70,731km in August 2022. All four are 1980 Mk2 cars, all four sold in Victoria, and the highest of them is $37,000. This record carried $62,000, which is 68 per cent above the best result and roughly double the four-sale average of $33,070. The value moves to $33,000.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (8 more)
This record assumed 120,000 kilometres. Every car in the sample sits between 29,641 and 84,642, so the assumption was extrapolating past the entire observed population; it is now 70,000, which is the middle of what actually trades.
The four results correlate at minus 0.875 and imply 4.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres, but that is a modern-car slope being read off a forty-six-year-old classic where readings are frequently unverifiable and restoration history matters far more than distance. Fitting it would produce arithmetic, not a valuation.
The 29,641-kilometre car is described as rally prepped and it is the highest result in the set. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced auction results, not confirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade in this library.
Built at Homebush from 1979 in two and four-door bodies - about 880 four-doors and the balance two-doors - with the 70kW two-litre, short-shift four-speed and Scheel seats, at $6,814 new. Shannons has offered them repeatedly across 2021-22 lots, so the car trades publicly, but the results sheets list the model without prices surfacing in the searchable record.
A 1974 Mk1 RS2000 made A$206,000 at Australian auction in late 2023, more than double the previous benchmark - and the Mk1 is a separate, far dearer market. A 1980 UK car made the equivalent of A$170,000 at Silverstone in 2017. Those results demonstrate where the model family's ceiling sits without setting the price of an Australian Mk2, which trades at a fraction of them. The value here prices a good original two-door.
The Oakleigh car is the only four-door in the sample - one of the 880 built in that body against roughly 1,570 two-doors - and it is the cheapest of the four at $28,500, despite carrying less distance than the Yellingbo two-door that made $30,000. That is one observation and not a measurement, but it points the same way as the 8 per cent this record already carries for the two-door shell, so the option stays where it is rather than being fitted to a single pair.
The two dearest cars are the two modified ones - a rally build with a cage and a stripped interior at $37,000, and a car converted to a Type 9 five-speed at $36,780 - while the matching-numbers car with Recaros and a Ford Australia letter made $30,000. Before reading that as a market that does not care: the two modified cars are also the two most recent and the two lowest-distance, and four results cannot separate three effects. What can be said is that neither modification was punished, which is unusual enough in this library to record.
And given that replica RS builds from base Escorts are the headline risk on this model, that documentation is doing work in every one of these results. A car without it should be assumed to sit under this sample, not inside it.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
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