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Rallye Sport Fords: The Inside Story

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The inside story of the creation of Rallye Sport Fords in the 70s and 80s. Popular with enthusiasts and essential for works teams and private owners to compete effectively in motorsport, these affordable performance cars achieved phenomenal success in rallying and racing. In the 60s, recognising how motorsport success improved the company’s image, Ford built the sensational Le Mans-winning GT40 and started making high-performance production cars the Lotus Cortina and Twin Cam Escort; it also sponsored Cosworth in Formula 1. Two Motorsport works teams were developed: Boreham, Essex, for rallying and Cologne, Germany, for Touring Car racing. In 1970, Ford established Advanced Vehicle Operations (AVO) in the UK, with 350 staff, to produce limited volume sporting Ford cars. The first was to have been the GT70, a two-seater sports car for rallying, but it was never made.  All subsequent AVO Rallye Sport cars were based on production Fords. They sold to thousands of customers, and in the UK spawned the Ford RS and AVO Owners Clubs. Most significant was the Escort RS1600/1800, with its Cosworth engine, the mainstay of many rally teams, while Escort Mexico and RS2000 were used by enthusiastic Clubmen. The Ford Escort won more competition events than any other single marque in motorsport history. There was also the Capri RS2600 in Germany, winner of many Touring Car race championships. In 1975, the energy crisis and company politics caused AVO to close, but its design principles evolved later into Special Vehicle Engineering (SVE), since responsible for many sporting derivatives, starting with the Capri 2.8i and Escort XR3i.    This story moves to Ford Motorsport in the 80s, behind the scenes of a second breed of motorsport-inspired Rallye Sport cars. The Clubmens Escort RS Turbo, the sensational Sierra RS Cosworth, the technically advanced RS200 four-wheel drive International Rally Car, the World Touring Car Champion Sierra RS500 Cosworth, the Escort RS Cosworth four-wheel drive International Rally Car, and other projects that never made the light of day. Mike Moreton, car enthusiast and engineer, spent 23 years at Ford on the frontline, working for Stuart Turner as Product Planner and Project Manager, making it all happen – first at AVO, and, subsequently, at Ford Motorsport, working with talented and dedicated people, negotiating with industry giants, and meeting celebrities. This is his story of the Rallye Sport cars, from dream to reality, how and why they happened, the political arguments, the failures and the successes.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Introduction & acknowledgements 1. Early inspiration 2. National Service and club racing - Garage life 3. Training, racing and special building 4. Facing reality and change 5. Engineering at Vauxhall 6. Ford product development 7. AVO evolution and creation - Escort RS1600 - Escort Mexico Mk I - Capri RS2600 - GT 70 8. Rallye Sport, AVO, and survival - Escort RS1600 - 3.0-litre Cortina - Frua-bodied Escort Mexico - Escort 1300E - Escort RS2000 Mk I - Capri RS3100 - Vignale - Granada RS2800 - Granada Coupe for the UK - Off-road Marshal - Pantera for AVO - Personalities 9. AVO goes out fighting - Escort RS2000 Mark II - Escort Mexico Mark II - Capri RS2800 - AVO closes - Some temporary reprieve - Escort RS1800 10. Times for change 11. Motorsport, Escorts RS1700T & RS1600I 12. New generation Rallye Sport - Escort RS Turbo - Sierra RS Cosworth 13. RS200 international rally car 14. Sierra RS500 Cosworth race car 15. Motorsport - where next? 16. Something different 17. Life after Ford Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845841157
  • Publisher: David & Charles
  • Publisher Imprint: Veloce
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 320 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845841158
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 250 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Sub Title: The Inside Story
  • Width: 207 mm


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