1995 Ford Escort review from North America

Timing Belt Broke in the middle of nowhere with pregnant wife and 2 kids and pitch black night with $15 to my name and 2 hours from home. Some nice people picked us up and drove us 2 hours back to our front door and would not take any money! I wanted to send them some, but they refused. Not Fords fault! Timing Belts should be replace at 70k and I was at 140K (MY FAULT). Springs in back are bad because Ford wrapped them with something at factory causing them to rust early. Just replace Alternator myself ($90). Easy if you compare it to a Saturn Alternator. Saturn Engeneers MUST be on crack. The whole engine on the SL-1 is backwords. Everything that should be servicable is at the fire-wall LOL.

I used to drive a 1969 Dodge Charger RT and a 1967 Pontiac Firebird 400 so I feel like a real loser geek driving this car, but that's what happens when you get married have 2 kids and only make 30K a year. You end up selling all your cool stuff and looking like a GEEK!