It should be unique: Ford Escort RS Turbo, which Princess Diana once drove
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Princess Diana liked to drive herself. Now the black, one-off production of the Ford Escort that she drove in the late 1980s has been auctioned off.
EPrincess Diana’s former car has fetched £650,000 (€765,000) at auction. The ex-wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles drove the black Ford Escort RS Turbo from August 23, 1985 to May 1, 1988. The former daughter-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II liked to drive herself, a bodyguard took a seat in the passenger seat. A British bidder won the auction at Saturday’s Silverstone circuit, the PA news agency reported.
The car only has a good 40,000 kilometers on the clock and is considered unique as it is said to be the only black model in the RS Turbo Series 1. At the request of the London police’s bodyguards, the manufacturer installed, among other things, an additional rear-view mirror for the bodyguard.
In June 2021, another Ford Escort, which Diana received as an engagement gift from Prince Charles in 1981, was bought at auction for £52,000 by a museum in Chile. The extremely popular princess was killed in a car accident in Paris almost exactly 25 years ago, on August 31, 1997. She wasn’t driving herself.