what the hell is this

[Gary406]

1st time ive ever seen one of these ?
is it a kit ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-RS-200-350-B ... 5205673163

[GeordieBoy]

Its a car Ford made mainly for rallying, think they had to make/sell 200 or so to be allowed to rally with it.

They are quite rare, looks stunning in the flesh, I've seen a few at car shows.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBkU2gwvR8

[Markyrow]

They never sold! Another beast was the Escort Cosworth with the big spoiler. We had one called Linford. Used to track white lines dreadfully, but went like F**k.
Mark

[lozz]

very nice motor that,

iirc theres one in blue that atends ford fair meets,

[Gary406]

i use to love the escort cossie. wot a car.

i have to admit i do like some fords, my mate whos about 45 now once owned a mark 2 escort RS 2000 in yellow.
wot a car but sadly he let it rot in the garden and it got crushed,
he regrets it very much nowadays since seeing the price of them

[Markyrow]

We had a sierra cossie with a straight though exhaust, 155mph and went round bends on rails. Awesome in it's day. Would still do the bizz I think against most stuff like Evo's and the very ugly imprezza! Those days are long gone, but great memories!

I asked a mate at the Jag the other day why we can't have a small modern 2 seater sports car and he says there is not enough money to be made in that market! A modern MGB roadster should sell. Look at the japs. It needs to be cheap with modern stuff and look good. Can't be hard ?

[GeordieBoy]

Escort Cossies and Sierra 4x4 Cossies are for Homo's, Sierra RWD Cossies I'd give my right testicle to have 1 or both for the RS500.

[Gary406]

i would give both mine for the new focus RS
i always mention this as you are probably aware of that

[Markyrow]

How about the lotus Carlton then! That was a beast. almost unuseable. Best big RWD car of that era was the Vauxhall senator.

[Markyrow]

If you want odd, look at the Metro 6R4 !!!!! I think there is still one in the Heritage museum at Gaydon.

[Bailes1992]

I'd love to build an RS200.
You can buy fiberglas shells and a spacefram chassis and you build the rest.
I'd love to have ago but I'd stick a f*cking XUD in it

[turbosime]

u can tune this monster to 1000 bhp i have seen 1 dun at trax 2 year ago 0 to 63 in 2.3 sec

[FarmerPug]

I dont know its not the prettiest looking front of a car, a delta looks a bit more appealing. In fact at 100k i think you could get a stratos. But in dreamland just give me a supercharged jag and unlimited petrol, unlimited tyres and a big empty road with lots of bends.

[steve_earwig]

I'm surprised none of you did this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_RS200

Some interesting figures there I didn't know they were built by Reliant.

[omega]

I'm surprised none of you did this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_RS200

Some interesting figures there I didn't know they were built by Reliant.

if you squint a little bit it looks a littlle like there sc1{ i think thats the right model] that they made