Today is Ford's 100th Birthday. Pics!

[Phuz]

😀

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Phuz

Cool!

 

[Phuz]

oops.

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[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: Phuz

Absolutely electrifying!

 

[MichaelD]

Drool!

Nice link, Phuz! Lotsa cool cars...mostly muscle, which is my era of choice. 🙂

 

[Bignate603]

What's this car? I don't recognize it...

 

[Phuz]

Originally posted by: Bignate603
What's this car? I don't recognize it...

Ford RS200

In 1984 Ford needed to establish themselves in rallying again and therefor developed the Ford RS200 group B rally car. Although designed by Ghia, Fords own studios had influential input. Ford had almost no experience with glassfibre, so they turned to Reliant for their know-how. The production line was set up in Reliants factory in Shenstone, where the aluminium engines for the small Reliants were formerly build. To get accepted by the FIA a minimum of 200 RS200 had to be build, but 220 sets of parts where compiled, of which several never made their way to a real car but were used to supply parts for damaged cars. The engine: 1803cc with up to 600 hp ! Additionally, 20 RS200 Evolution with 2.1 liter engine were produced. The quickest RS200s were awesome: 0-60mph in 3.6 secs, 0-100mph in 8.1, and 0-100-0mph in 13.6 sec The RS200 had big potential to be a winner, but FIA rules changed in 1987 because of some terrible accidents, killing both competitors and spectators. The group B rally cars where just getting too much to handle. The 10 million pounds Ford invested in the RS200 were more ore less wasted. In there debut season of 67 races, the RS200 won 19 times.

MichaelD, the VWVortex forums are awesome.

 

[Phuz]

Mhmmm...

 

[ScottyB]

Nice
Nicer
Nicest

 

[Ornery]

• That's a hell of a lot of nice cars, but not one person posted my favorite! :Q

 

[CrazyPerson]

nice

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Ornery

• That's a hell of a lot of nice cars, but not one person posted my favorite! :Q

I thought this was your favorite.

 

[Ornery]

• Bah, if a car's gonna have a back seat, I want it to be a REAL car!

 

[Eli]

Some nice looking cars there..

Too bad they're garbage now.

I wouldn't mind having some of the older muscle cars, though.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Ford sent us dealership employees a certificate and a cake.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Phuz
Mhmmm...

When's the new GT40 supposed to go in production?

 

[Ornery]

Almost 40 years after Ford's GT40s beat Ferrari at Le Mans, the Blue Oval challenges the prancing horse on the street - NSF4, 06/16/2003 8:06 AM

• The Ford GT concept vehicle that dazzled our imaginations at the Detroit show in January 2002 is turning into a real car; it is not a confection, but a fully realized, no-kidding sports machine that we?ll be able to buy for about $150,000 and drive ?just like this? by March 2004.

 

[Confused]

My favourite Ford, Back view (tho it is slightly modified from stock, but the body shape is identical (apart from the original had no bull-bar 😉), this has Subaru 1800 4x4 running gear)


Confused

 

[PCMarine]

Cool, I was planning on washing my 2000 ford taurus today anyway 😉