The fifth generation of the Escort was a car built as an affordable, compact vehicle.
One of the most common version was the five-door.

In 1992, Ford introduced a facelift for its compact-segment representative, the Escort. The refresh affected the entire range, including the coupe, the sedan, the station wagon, the convertible, and the five-door hatchback.

The Escort featured a mixed design, between the boxy-looking vehicles of the ’80s and the flowing lines of the ’90s. For the facelifted range, the grille featured black, slim, horizontal slats. The headlights and the turn-signals were in separate blocks and covered with clear glass. For the rest of the car, the lines remained similar, but an enhancement was made for the door handles, which were in body color, unlike the non-facelift version where they were black.

Inside, the dashboard was redesigned. It featured a smoothed dashboard with the center stack and the upper area modified. As for the instrument cluster, a new set of dials was installed, but offering the same information as on the non-facelifted version. For selected versions, an airbag was fitted as standard. The five-door version offered enough room for five passengers, especially if none of them was over the average, European, height.

Under the hood, Ford offered a choice of six engines, including two diesel versions. The base version was a frugal 1.3-liter unit that offered only 60 hp, while the top-performer version was the 1.8-liter engine with 108 hp. All versions were paired to a 5-speed manual gearbox.