1987 Ford Escort RS Cosworth
In 1987 Cosworth acquired the rights to a conversion on the Ford Cologne 60 degree V-6 engine, to a twin-cam 24-valve unit with new cylinder heads. This then became a full Cosworth/Ford mainstream engineering programme.
In its very first World Championship season, the turbocharged four-wheel-drive Escort RS Cosworth won no fewer than five World Championship rounds, with four second places to back up that achievement. It was an amazingly versatile machine, ranging victories on Portuguese gravel, on the twisting tarmac of Corsica and San Remo, and on one of the toughest of all World Championship rallies, the hot and dusty Acropolis event.
In 1994 Francois Delecour’s Escort RS Cosworth won the Monte Carlo Rally. In 1995, the Escort RS Cosworth won rallies all around the world, both in Group A and Group N form. Not only did this Escort model win 25 European Championship rounds, but it also won Championships as far apart as Africa and Austria, Switzerland and Portugal, Finland and Turkey. Two more World Rally Championship victories followed in 1996 made it a truly amazing car.
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That red one is the best looking Escort RS Cosworth i have ever seen
Beautiful car, but 1987 isn’t right.. judging by the painted door handles and mirrors it is post 1993, a small turbo version
This made me hard
In 1987 you guys were still hard at work with the Sierra RS500.
The Escort did not come into play until 1992.
The bit about the Cologne-V6 is also out of place, as we all know the Escort was a 2.0 turbo 4-cylinder (YBT).
By far the best car ever uploaded onto the CT garage