26 Hottest Images From Cosworth's Sporty History

The Cossie engined Red Bull F1 car hooning at Goodwood (F1 Fanatic)

Founded by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth in 1958, Cosworth have been at the forefront of both Formula 1 engine technology and Ford's road car range. The company's been through various owners since Ford including Vickers PLC, and its racing division is currently owned by the Champ Car World Series. But enough talking, here are 26 buff images which capture Cosworth's history.

Fast Fords

A racing-spec, smoking Sierra RS Cosworth (Speed Hunters)

Cosworth further tuned a limited collection of Sierras to create the RS500 (The Telegraph)

The third gen Sapphire Cosworth had 4 wheel drive (Mad4Wheels)

Rallying in the Escort RS Cosworth (autogaleria.pl)

The heart of the whale-tailed hero is a 225hp 2.0-litre turbo (cartuning.ws)

So good, the PoPo wanted in (Hampshire Police)

You can pretty much give any Ford the Cosworth treatment. Here's the Capri (Ultimate Car Page)

How about the old school Fiesta? (barbadosrallycarnival.com)

...or the safer-ish squarer Fiesta with 4wd? (Ian Hardy)

A Cossie fiddled engine in the Ka? Genius! (Ian Hardy)

Cosworth's latest project, the current Focus ST

Kahn Design + Cosworth x Focus RS = Awesome! (Cosworth)

No wait, Supervan 3 is more awesome! (Commercial Motor)

Other Road Cossies

Is the Vega Cosworth the coolest Chevy ever? (careto.blogspot.com)

Another Kahn & Cossie tie up, this time in the form of the RR Sport

75 of these Cosworth edition WRXs were made for the UK (Motorstown)

ARK and Cosworth made this special edition Hyundai Genesis for SEMA

Cosworth also gave the Veloster a wacky tune up for SEMA

Guess who makes the engines for Marussia?

Cossie Racers

The SATS Cosworth Supra is built for winning the British drifting championships

Lotus' F1 racer with the engine courtesy of Cosworth (UltimateCarPage.com)

The Cossie engined Red Bull F1 car hooning at Goodwood (F1 Fanatic)

The guy standing up is saying 'have you seen how fast this Chevron goes?!' (Cosworth)

This BMC racer has a Mazda engine tuned by Cosworth (motoiq.com)

Give Cosworth a ring and they'll make an engine for anything, including this stripped down Elan (Cosworth)

Williams used Cosworth power for the 2006 F1 season (conceptcarz.com)