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Ford Escort Cosworth #1 C. Hurtgen DTT 1994 Minichamps 1:43

Ford Escort Cosworth #1 C. Hurtgen DTT 1994 Minichamps 1:43
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Specifications
Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
430948201
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About the Ford Escort Cosworth #1 C. Hurtgen DTT 1994 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:43 diecast reproduces #1, C. Hurtgen's Ford Escort Cosworth from the 1994 touring car season. Compact diecast construction keeps the boxy Escort silhouette and period livery legible, a supporting piece for a 1990s touring car collection built around Ford's Cosworth era.

Touring car racing in the early 1990s was a proving ground for manufacturer badge pride, and Ford's Escort Cosworth carried that fight in a shape everyone on the road recognised.

A Boxy Touring Silhouette at 1:43

The Escort Cosworth's flared arches and rear wing gave it a far more purposeful stance than the road car it was homologated from, and reproducing that contrast at 1:43 diecast scale means holding sharp creases along the arch flares rather than softening them into a generic hatchback shape. Minichamps' touring car range typically nails the period sponsor decals that dominate a 1990s livery, small logos packed densely across the doors and bonnet, and the #1 markings here should sit clean rather than smeared. As with most 1:43 race diecast, the interior is simplified in favour of an accurate exterior silhouette, a sensible trade for a subject collected mainly for its livery and shape rather than its cockpit.

The Escort Cosworth's Touring Car Era

Ford built the Escort Cosworth as a homologation special, putting a turbocharged four-cylinder and four-wheel drive into a hatchback shell to qualify it for rallying and touring car competition in the early 1990s. Its racing career across various national touring car series through the decade traded on that same combination of everyday shape and serious underlying engineering, a formula that made the model a genuine fan favourite rather than a purely technical exercise.

Placing It in a 1990s Touring Shelf

This car sits best among other national touring championship liveries of the same decade, where its boxy Ford shape contrasts usefully against the rounder saloons that followed later in the 1990s.

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