In 2013 Escort was described by Pierre Perrone, a former magazine editor for the company, as "downmarket". Sherman, the former chief information officer for the Defense Department, and Coker, the former intelligence official, who both also served as members of the CSRB, told ProPublica that they did not recall the board ever discussing digital escorting, which they said they now consider a major threat. May of '04 we went to lou grubb Ford and were told that they were not responsible because our oil changes were not done at a Ford dealer! The mechanic again said he has never seen that problem, special ordered the part from a Ford dealer who was also shocked. 07, but since our warranty had just expired our local mechanic had firend at a Ford dealer who gave us the 'good faith' policy and we only paid half. Reading other ntsb complaints, this appears to be a common problem with Ford top escorts in london, they appear to be designed to last exactly through the warranty period and no longer. At 36,150 miles (150 miles over warranty) the transmission on my 2000 Ford Escort failed completely. See all problems of the 2000 Ford Escort