Ford Motor Company Bring Back Group 5 Mk1 Escort & Group B RS200 With The Help Of Boreham Motorworks
Ford have granted a licence to Boreham Motorworks, a division of the DVRN Automotive Group, to produce new versions of not just the Mk1 Escort but the iconic RS200 Group B rally car.
The new continuation cars will be produced in limited numbers and aren’t going to be the only cars that are to come from Boreham as a deal has been signed to produce more licenced cars.
There will also be remastered cars, those developed from the ground up alongside those that are blueprint accurate.
The first one will be the RS200 on its 40th anniversary, possibly one of the most desirable rare Fords to have ever been produced. This will be an entirely new ground up build of the legendary Group B car, but built to be a road legal driver’s car. The original, introduced in 1984 was designed to compete against the might of Audi and Peugeot in the World Rally Championship. The mid-engine car was four-wheel drive and had a very light composite, or fiberglass, body and was probably the most advanced and revered rally car that century.
The first of the continuation cars is going to be a Ford Escort Mk1, with continuing VIN numbers. The Escort was one of the most significant race and rally cars Ford have ever produced since its introduction in the late 1960s. The Escort was light weight and featured an advanced suspension set up for the time which gave the car great handling and agility, on both track and rally stages.
As usual with any continuation cars, these are going to be built in very limited numbers, keeping them exclusive and expensive. They are effectively hand built with a great deal of hours going into each one.
The first car will be unveiled later this year (Mk1), but there will be at least five more Fords being produced in the series. You can speculate what they might be, but I have a feeling that a Sierra RS500 Cosworth might be one of them.
If they produced them in vast numbers they’d fall foul of a myriad of regulations, and whilst there are many people who would want one, very few would actually buy one even if they were in a position to be able to pay for it. But if you can you get an exclusive invitation only membership to the Boreham High Performance Club which put on driving events globally. After all, you’ll need somewhere to take it.
And Boreham are the place to go for designing, building and distribution of Ford road, race and rally cars. Their ethos of building cars around an analogue driving experience has to be admired and cherished as it’s pretty much the only was to get something like this these days.
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