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The Ford Torino GT was the mid-size muscle car Ford built for people who found the Mustang too small and the Galaxie too large — a GT in the truest Grand Touring sense, blending fastback style, genuine performance, and enough interior quality to make the journey worthwhile. It only lasted seven years in GT form. Those seven […]

It started with a penknife and a scale model. Kip Ewing, a Ford GT development engineer, sliced the roof off a miniature replica of his own car and liked what he saw. His bosses agreed. The result — the Ford GTX1 Roadster — is among the rarest, most desirable, and most expensive American supercars ever made. The GT40 […]

Between the legendary Mk2 Escort RS1800 and the iconic Ford RS200, there is a ghost: the Ford Escort RS1700T. Eighteen prototypes were built. Most were ordered destroyed. Around six are believed to survive. It is arguably the most important Ford rally car nobody knows — and the machine that directly gave birth to the RS200. The Problem Ford Had […]

Before the Mustang SVO. Before Ford’s Special Vehicle Operations division even had a name. There was the McLaren M81 — ten hand-built Fox Body Mustangs that almost became 250, and that the world almost forgot entirely. Ford, McLaren, and the Energy Crisis That Changed Everything By 1980, the muscle car era was a memory. OPEC had reshaped the […]

There is exactly one Ford Mustang V10 in existence. It lives in Ford’s Heritage Fleet in Dearborn, Michigan. It was built in secret, nearly crushed twice, and hid in the back of various garages for years — maintained on zero budget by the engineers who refused to let it die. It is one of the most interesting […]

In 1966, Chrysler was selling its street HEMI to anyone who could write a cheque. Ford’s answer was more surgical — stuff the most powerful engine in its arsenal into the lightest intermediate body it made, build exactly as many as the rules required, and send them straight to the drag strip. The result was […]

In 1962, Ford PR chief Walter Hayes approached Colin Chapman with a simple proposition: take the new Cortina bodyshell, install a twin-cam engine, and win the British Saloon Car Championship. What followed was one of the most celebrated partnerships in British automotive history — and a car whose values and desirability show no sign of diminishing sixty years later. The […]

Ask anyone who grew up in Britain between 1962 and 1982 about the Ford Cortina and you’ll get a knowing smile. For two decades, it was the country’s best-selling car — the default choice for company car fleets, family driveways, and sales reps everywhere. What surprises many people is that the very same model range that once […]

For 33 years and six generations, the Ford Escort was the backbone of British motoring. From its 1968 launch to its replacement by the Focus in 2000, over four million were sold in the UK alone. It won the Monte Carlo Rally, dominated the World Rally Championship, produced some of the greatest fast Fords ever built, and sold in […]

In 1955, Ford unveiled a car that didn’t just compete — it created an entirely new market segment. The Ford Thunderbird was neither a sports car nor a saloon. Ford called it a “personal car of distinction”, and the American public agreed immediately. In its opening ten days on sale, 3,500 orders were placed. It outsold the Chevrolet […]