until Ford decided the fire-prone Pinto would be a more suitable offer for the everyday American. Going above and beyond the line of duty, the Cortina was also a popular rally car, taking part in ...

Ford already had experience developing an accomplished rally vehicle. The Lotus Cortina, which essentially ... but there was a lot of success in the car's future: eight RAC wins in a row, three ...

Introduced in 1962 by Ford UK, the Cortina quickly became one of ... Developed from the ground up to be a rally car, the RS200 was also made available to the general public in a limited run ...

Last year, Ford announced that the Fiesta supermini will be axed in June 2023 without a direct successor, but M-Sport assured everyone it will continue building Fiesta-based rally cars.

The world's biggest automotive brands like Porsche, Renault, and Ferrari would submit rally cars ... from other Ford vehicles – the suspension came from the Ford Taunus and Cortina, the brakes ...

The Ford Cortina Mk3 was a massive gamble for Ford. Both the Mk1 and Mk2 Cortinas were compact cars with their upper ... fine ...

Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato. Porsche 911 Dakar. And now, Ford Mustang Rally. Off-road (or at least dirt-road) versions of sports cars are officially A Thing, but there’s one critical difference ...

that mainstay of the driveway was a Ford Cortina. Built between 1962 and 1982, the humble Ford was the UK's best-selling car for the entirety of the 1970s. Back in a time when off-roaders were ...

The Cortina just became a faster pig. But why was it so? The story went something like this ... In the early 1970s Ford was leading the medium car segment with its locally made (but English ...