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The Beetle is a classic for a few reasons:
1) It was designed as the "People's Car" for Hitler's Germany, this gives it a certain significance.
2) It became a cult car, associated with hippie and surf culture.
3) It had a very distinctive design.
4) Perhaps most importantly, it had the longest running production of any car (that wasn't redesigned) and was also the highest selling car ever.
Things like the Escort (I presume you mean the US version) and the Lumina will never become automotive icons like the VW Beetle, because they are too run-of-the-mill, their design didn't last as long and didn't have the worldwide success of the Beetle.
The only chance those things have of being classics is if they are immortalised in a hugely successful movie, like Back to the Future did with the DeLorean (which was a failure when it was made, but then it was still a distinctive design).
1) It was designed as the "People's Car" for Hitler's Germany, this gives it a certain significance.
2) It became a cult car, associated with hippie and surf culture.
3) It had a very distinctive design.
4) Perhaps most importantly, it had the longest running production of any car (that wasn't redesigned) and was also the highest selling car ever.
Things like the Escort (I presume you mean the US version) and the Lumina will never become automotive icons like the VW Beetle, because they are too run-of-the-mill, their design didn't last as long and didn't have the worldwide success of the Beetle.
The only chance those things have of being classics is if they are immortalised in a hugely successful movie, like Back to the Future did with the DeLorean (which was a failure when it was made, but then it was still a distinctive design).