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There are very few vehicles that inspire genuine obsession. The Ford Bronco is one of them. From its debut as a compact 4×4 off-roader in 1966 to its triumphant 2021 return as a Jeep Wrangler rival built for the modern adventure driver, the Bronco has never simply been a vehicle. It has been a statement of intent. Born Wild: The Original […]
In 1987 you could buy a Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 for £19,950. In February 2023, the finest known example — a 5,192-mile black 1987 car kept with forensic attention to originality — sold at Silverstone Auctions’ Race Retro sale for £596,250. Against an estimate of £150,000 to £180,000. That is the story of the RS500: a blue-collar performance […]
When the world’s greatest rally teams went to war in Group B during the mid-1980s, Audi, Peugeot and Lancia all started with production cars and worked backwards. Ford did something far bolder. They built a purpose-designed rally weapon from the ground up — then produced just enough road cars to satisfy the FIA’s homologation rules. The result […]
There are cars that are historically significant. There are cars that are culturally important. And then there is the Ford Model T — the car that did both simultaneously and in doing so, changed the entire course of human civilisation. Over a century since its introduction, the Model T is not merely a classic car to be admired at […]
When Ford grafted four-wheel drive onto the Sierra in the mid-1980s, it wasn’t just chasing rally stages — it was creating a legacy. The Ford Sierra 4×4 family spans everything from the charismatic XR4x4 to the fearsome Sapphire RS Cosworth 4×4, covering some of the most interesting and collectible classic Fords of the era. Here is the story of every significant all-wheel-drive […]
“The car you always promised yourself.” It remains one of the most evocative advertising slogans in automotive history — and the Ford Capri lived up to every word of it. From its debut in 1969 through to its final farewell in 1986, the Capri captured the hearts of an entire generation. Today, the finest examples are rising […]
Before the GTI became a shorthand for affordable performance, before the hot hatch wars truly ignited, there was the Ford Fiesta XR2. Launched in 1981 and loved unreservedly ever since, the XR2 and its fuel-injected successor the XR2irepresent two of the most nostalgic, characterful, and now genuinely collectable classic Fiestas in the Blue Oval’s storied history. The XR2 (1981–1989): […]
No badge in the fast Ford hall of fame carries quite the same electricity as RS. And no car has worn it more ferociously in the modern era than the Ford Focus RS. Across three generations — each wildly different in character, each brilliant on its own terms — the Focus RS has become one of the most passionately […]
On 17th April 1964, Ford launched a car that didn’t just start a new model line — it created an entirely new category of vehicle. The Ford Mustang was the original pony car: sporty, affordable, endlessly customisable, and instantly, overwhelmingly desirable. Ford reportedly sold 22,000 on its very first day. Six generations and more than 10 million cars […]
It isn’t really an Escort. And that, in many ways, is the whole point. The Ford Escort RS Cosworth wears the skin of an ordinary 1990s hatchback over the bones of a Sierra Cosworth 4×4, wrapped in flared arches, a vented bonnet, and — on the early cars — a whale-tail rear wing that leaves absolutely no doubt […]