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<p>The inside story of the creation of Rallye Sport Fords in the 70s and 80s. Popular with enthusiasts, essential for works teams and private owners to compete in motor sport, these affordable performance cars achieved phenomenal success in rallying and racing.</p> <p>In the 60s Ford built the sensational Le Mans-winning GT40, started making high performance production cars the Lotus Cortina and Twin Cam Escort, and recognizing how motor sport success had improved the company’s image, sponsored Cosworth in Formula 1. Two Motorsport works teams were developed: Boreham, Essex for rallying and Cologne, Germany for Touring Car racing.<br> &nbsp;<br> In 1970 they established Advanced Vehicle Operations (AVO) in the UK, with 350 people, to produce limited volume sporting Ford cars. The first was to have been the GT70, a two-seater sports car for rallying, but it was never made. All subsequent AVO Rallye Sport cars were based on production Fords. They sold to thousands of customers and in the UK, created the Ford RS and AVO Owners Clubs.<br> &nbsp;<br> Most significant was Escort RS1600/1800, with its Cosworth engine, the mainstay of many rally teams, while Escort Mexico and RS2000 we

Author

Mike Moreton; Stuart Turner

Publisher

Hubble&Hattie an Imprint of Veloce Publishing Ltd

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845841157

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

4.1 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14