Ford Sierra Cosworth Group A

The ford sierra rs cosworth is a high performance version of the ford sierra that was built by ford europe from 1986 to 1992.

Ford sierra cosworth group a. Built for purpose racing. Preparing for ams classic youngtimer summer edition. For the first time we had an opportunity to get familiar with ford sierra rs cosworth group a from 1987. Conveniently cosworth had developed a 16 valve twin cam version of the pinto engine that once turbocharged would create a stonking touring car in the light three door fleet sierra bodyshell.

Ford sierra rs cosworth 1990. The ford sierra cosworth rs500 exploded onto the touring car racing scene in australia in 1987 with the all german eggenberger motorsport team entering the james hardie 1000 only to be. In rallying the group a sierra on tarmac was equal to all the four wheel drive opposition particularly when didier auriol won the 1988 corsica rally outright. It was the result of a ford motorsport project with the purpose of producing an outright winner for group a racing in europe.

Ford sierra xr4i 1986. 201 hp and a top speed of 150 mph a speed normally found only in sports cars from prestige brands like ferrari and porsche at much higher prices as well as with less practicality. For any homologated car the htp must be accompanied by an asn certified copy printed on fia stamped watermarked paper with an asn additional authentication of the car s original homologation form or a asn certified copy printed on fia stamped watermarked paper with an asn additional authentication of the car s retrospective homologation form. Ford motorsport under stuart turner needed a group a saloon to replace the capri.

The sierra cosworth comfortably exceeded ford s wishes and went on to become one of the most successful touring car racers of all time winning races all over the world. Ford sierra sapphire rs cosworth 4x4. 4 1 4 to fia appendix k. The ford sierra rs cosworth was introduced in 1986 as a three door hatchback with a 2 litre dohc turbo engine producing 204 ps 150 kw.

Young tiff needell then top gear presenter with jeremy clarkson et al talks about his 500hp sierra touring car.