The Ford RS200 Story
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- The Ford RS200 is a mid-engined, four-wheel drive sports car that was produced by Ford Motorsport from 1984 to 1986. The road-going RS200 was the basis for Ford's Group B rally car and was designed to comply with FIA homologation regulations, which required 200 parts kits to be produced and at least one road-legal car to be assembled. It was first displayed to the public at the Belfast Motor Show.
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#fordrs200 - Auta a dopravní prostředky
In my perfect 5 car garage, there will be a space for one of these. When I was in college, I had a poster of this on my wall.
So did Fred Savage in the Princess Bride 😂👍🏼
You get one yet?
@@rickhunter6513 Ha! Great knowledge lol. You pay attention. (I’m 38 so I know)
That's my dream car. Always loved the design of those, especially when fully kitted with the wide arches, intakes and spot lamp set up.
I treasure my matchbox model. Beautiful car
and it's timeless
I'd rather have a sierra or escort cosworth anyday. 3 door sierra cosworths are 😍
Damn they're 300k 😅
Ooohh I didn't know how badly I wanted this story until now. Thank you!
Please do consider doing more on some other Group B/Rally homologation cars!
I'd definitely be up for that! Especially episodes covering the MG Metro 6R4 and Renault 5 Maxi Turbo!
In fact, a whole episode dedicated to Group B would be superb!
@@residentelect dont forget the BX 4TC!
Interesting, reliant built the body this was a quick one packed with info well done.
I spat my tea all over the screen when I heard one of my Group B heroes was actually built by the same company who blighted British roads with the "Plastic Pig"?!
Never saw one till I was in my mid 30s and I saw 6 of them side by side in a vegas hotel
I'm jealous
father Ted crilly My dad owns one
Faze Sweatkid are you a Saudi prince mate?
고등 지능 ODINS trash np
Was one of them a maestro?
Always been my favorite FORD!
Thank you for the history lesson!
The ford RS200 engine was the first I had ever had the pleasure of working on.
Great work as always! Keep it up :)
Can't believe this car was only around for 1 year. Just shows when you're a kid a year seems like an eternity. This was my second favourite rally car as a kid after the 6r4. Saw both at some show somewhere and thought they both looked like the best gokarts ever lol... especially the Metro.
right I never knew that until now. definitely one of my favorites of the era and all time also. I also agree on the go-kart comment back in the days these beasts had a go kart out there type of look that was unmatched.
Awesome car, whenever I see an rs200 it always reminds me of trudging through Dalby forest in North Yorkshire in the 1980s going to watch the RAC rally, great times
They are just an unbelievable looking car. The styling on the RS200 is absolutely beautiful, in my opinion the most beautifully designed Ford of all time. Before you even learn about its incredible performance, it's hard not to be taken aback by its looks.
exactly, you'd think it's just all looks and I mean she's a beauty but no Its actually a great handling rally car also. I didn't know it was this good, I knew it was good but not that good. Fords performance division is definitely very skilled.
I have always loved the RS 200, in my opinion one of the most interesting performance cars that Ford has ever built.Great video.
It looks like a mix between a Lancia Stratos and a Porsche 911
@@yrooxrksvi7142 facts such a beautiful car
I remember one of these at Hendy Ford, it was on a turn table looking amazing as a 14 year old boy
Excellent, I was hoping you'd do this after the mention of the RS200 in the Escort episode! Thanks for this!!
All of my favorite authors write out short stories! Hoping there are some more of these. It's a shame we never got that car here in the USA, but it would have gotten banned as people would be quickly separating themselves from their lives. Speaking of which, I've always marveled at how so few spectators get killed in rallying considering that they are the guard rails.
Rallying spectators tend to be highly knowledgeable about rallying, and know where to stand to avoid being hit by wayward cars....but with our over-zealous Health and Safety Brigade, yes it is puzzling how they have not yet shut down rallying. Let's hope we can all enjoy our rallying for many years to come
Wonderful as usual. Great idea, doing the spin off from the Escort! I learn so much from your videos! Imagine coming up to an RS 200 and finding out it's a Maestro in drag!!
This was one of my favourite cars whilst in school. It even helped move my hobbies from computers and games towards following Motorsport, especially formula one and Mansell.
@palatableblueapple reading about my mid 80s school life is interesting? Ok, never really thought that...
And yes, it was quite a surprise to learn that Reliant of all people built the fabulous rs200. I also loved the mad Austin metro 6r4...
Absolute pleasure to watch as always! As long as the normal Story videos keep coming, I'm all for the Short Story content right along with them.
And, Reliant?! Like many I had no idea!!
Thank you for posting that. The RS200 has always been my dream car. I enjoyed watching Martin Schanche competing in the rallycross championship in one back in the day and that image of the car and it's internals has pride of place on my wall plus another that came from Fords brochure when they were selling them off.
Well done with the new short story thing. Consistently great uploads!
I led a team of guys at JQF engineering in Towcester England, we converted the cars( the balance of the 200 built for homologation) to road car versions and I unfortunately had to test drive each car, a great experience. JQF also built most of the engines, each engine had to be Dyno tested and results supplied to the new owner of each car. This was way back in the mid eighties.
Thanks for sharing Robin. Fascinating!
Wow - I'm too young to have experienced Group B but I had no idea that the RS200 wasn't competitive.
I had a Matchbox one growing up and always loved how it looked.
Wow,love that car, I used to race slot cars in the 80s at competition leveland that along with the Audi Quattro were always the most competitive
Group B was madness. Someone got the brilliant idea to put a 500bhp engine into a car barely weighing 900kg. No wonder it was cancelled.
Nice format, thanks, hope it runs alongside your regular channel.
RS200 was a amazing machine great content my man 👍
I was fortunate to actually see a road going version of this car in 1988 whilst on my way home from school, a shopping car park.
The perfect car to do the shopping with!
Was the poster on my wall that cut away version!! Excellent machine. Great info and always great vids. Thanks and keep safe
Amazing car from Ford. I think it was very tricky to drive due to the short wheelbase, being mid engined and also the turbo lag on it.
Good video, once again. Congrats on this the first of this new series. Thx.
So pleased to see that your latest video is the RS200. Awesome as always....
Whilst I was aware of the RS200 and its tragedies, I had no idea that the bodywork was done by Reliant! czcams.com/video/Nc_ovDWDRWc/video.html
And I can understand why fans have kept that quiet over the years...
Reliant also made the Scimitar , that's certainly not embarrassing.
The hub of the millennium wheel was made by Skoda. That's pretty embarrassing.... for Skoda
It's quite a well known fact that Reliant built the bodywork. They were leaders in fibreglass and composite technology back in the day - a lot of their trade was supplying various industries with moulded composite products. It made good financial sence for Ford to outsource the bodywork to a company that had the expertise and capacity to quickly deliver.
@@byronmills5952 Absolutely correct. Reliant were actually really good at what they did. Sadly they will always be the butt of jokes for the 3 wheelers ,but even so ,I actually liked the Regal saloon , when I was little , I called them 3 wheel Anglias ,I'm told . ☺️
@@buggs9950 Skoda engineering, which is still owned by the Czech government and is now unrelated to the car company
0:57 and 4:55 A Capri Mk III.. Always loved the RS200, thanks.
Excellent Doc, as usual !
I've not seen that in a long time and now it's a collector's item and it's worth well over $210,000 if you have one hold on to it will be a collector's item and worth the money
Again great episode , keep on going friend !
Enjoyed the format very much, keep them coming! Kinda off topic but as soon as I see Reliant, I’m reminded by my country’s first mass produced indigenous car the Anadol, whose fiberglass body was also a work of , you guessed it, Reliant. May be one day you can make it a story video of that too, interesting story for sure!
Thanks for sharing. I was never aware of the Anadol until you mentioned it. It's interesting to see the Ford connection, and eventual takeover of the factory.
Don’t know why I am thinking about a Renault fuego episode from you while seing this. Great channel thank you sir!
I’ve been thinking about doing the Fuego!
Austin Rover MG6R4 has miles ahead of this. Testament to what Austin's engineers could do with little money.
Great content! Keep up the good work!
NA engine vs all the turbo cars that were winning. Really? I recall a friend telling me in 1985 at the RAC Rally, watching the S4 Delta's go through the speed trap at 95mph ….and the 6R4's going through at 78.
That 6r4 engine ended up in the xjr
@@neilchapman5145 Indeed it did. But it wasn't the engine they wanted. The XJ220 was out of date as soon as it arrived.
beijingbond yeah but it would have been more reliable (in theory, when they had a chance to work on it) and the balanced power delivery would give you smoother driving, which is essential for winning.
beijingbond the v6 engine was quite new at the time and it had amazing performance.
Love your videos. This one is great!
An iconic car! Great upload 👍
1986 .... west Lancashire means business exhibition in Skelmersdale princess Diana opened it and we were on the TPT YTS stand . Garret turbo had a stand too with one of theses beauties on display . A couple of us were allowed to sit in it .... awsome 🤯🤩🤩👍🏼🧱
There used to be a company in England that built replica kitcar versions of this in late 90's. I believe they had a model that could have 4 wheel drive with the engine out of a Sierra Cosworth turbo. That could have 200+ hp.
It was a very interesting story, thank you so much! 🤩
Finally some kind of good video!Thanks Big Car!
Well done Andy, I was dubious how this concept would compare to your own scripts, but enjoyed it immensely, good work mate.
Thanks John! Makes me wonder why I spend days on a script...
I remember these in British Rallycross. Mark Rennison was the driver and there was great rivalry with Will Gollop in his Metro 6R4. The acceleration of those cars was phenomenal. Meanwhile we ran the last competitive Mini in Class C
Group B was the pinnacle of motorsport for me. Such a shame it went beyond what we could handle. Same with F1 at that time. Now it's all about coming up with rules to slow the cars down.
Good video, thank you for making it.
Great little video, can’t wait for the next one, 20 minute film on the Ford Fiesta maybe??? 🙂
Less Ford for a while, although I've just finished the next short story video - on the Ford Escort EXP!
Had the opportunity to sit in one as a kid. Weird sitting in a rally car that had all the switchgear and dashboard of a saloon car! :-D
Excellent as always.
Another Good watch as always. i’am waiting for the ford fiesta story 😅
It always makes me sad to think of the slow death of Reliant. With their expertise in fibreglass you'd have thought they could have become the go to company for specialist body shells like for the RS200. If someone had invested in them they might have even been able to develope a modern ultra light car of their own.
Surely my favorite rally Race cara ever
An Austin Maestro kit car version of Ford's RS200 is just so hilarious on so many different points.
I really love the rs200, very interesting video keep up the good work!
From Reliant to Group B to Maestro, that's quite a trip.
Good "old fashioned" British engineering with Italian styling = a marriage made in heaven. What a car
P.S Great video! Also, Thank for mentioning Martin Schanche. Although I grew up with him being a rallycross hero, I was too young to understand that he was driving this legendary car.
Awesome footage
Great video for a great car! Too bad we never got these in the US. Then again, we also didn't get the cool Escorts. How many of the road-going variants are still around? For that matter, how many of the actual Rally models are still out there? I never knew how the drivetrain was set up, but it just sounds incredibly complex. How much did the transmission weigh that it made better sense to be separated by several feet from the engine?
Great video👍🏻
I’ve always loved these would love to have one
Interesting video, thank you.
My dream rally car Ford RS200 I’ve always playing on my video game called Ford Racing 3 I’ve always love that car so much and even I saw in fast and furious 4 scene
Richard Hammond drove a replica produced by RS Automotive. The article is on CZcams. Another enjoyable video. Keep them coming. Maybe a short video on the Daewoo Leganza, from failed Jaguar concept to what is basically an Italian styled, Korean built Vauxhall Vectra
Thanks for the suggestion!
Great little history lesson of RS2000. Used to drive this at Colin McRae rallygame when i was a kid. My mum had Escort -85 1.3 LX at that time, but i think that was Renault motored? Anyway would like to thank for what you have done so far -and asking if you could do something with BMW:s maybe 3-reihe or 5-reihe history?
I liked this short video. Very informative!
Maybe a short video for a short Fiat? 😉
@@BigCar2 yay!!!!!
Maybe you can give me a name drop for the little Fiat video.... 😁
@@sbomorse Sorry if I caused confusion, but I didn't say I'd do the video. I'll let you know if I'm thinking of doing it though.
Remember in the 1989 a pair of RS200 driven by local rally driver go head to head with Mr. Arie Vetanen driving Audi S1 Quattro in an occasional Rally series held in my country. The steel bodied quattro won the series. One of the RS was broken down in the mid of rally I think. One of the RS200 driver was our president's son.
THE BEST EVER Group B car made, to your opinion?! GREAT! The best
Huge fan of your videos. I love the Ford content best 👍 the RS story would be a great video 🙏💙
These shorter videos are going to be basically Wikipedia articles with a few tweaks, so a lot depends upon if the Wikipedia article is compelling.
Facts: @3:00 he explains the two epic crashes, that’s true. I JUST NOW found both videos mentioned on CZcams.
It shows the one car slam the crowd from mid-range and bad quality. The other video… Clearly shows him SLAMMING a tree, and the car BURST INTO FLAMES.
Gave me goosebumps bc it reminds me of the Paul walker crash, yet the driver survived the fiery blaze in the mentioned video where the co-pilot died.
Gawd. This car is one of the pinnacles of Ford Racing. I'd love to have one..
Great bit of kit. Have you ever done a video about the Ford CX?
A kit car version on an Austin Maestro!!! Makes me go cold just thinking about it. 😳
Great vid
Cool! Had no idea there was a kit car version.
Found out and fell in love with this car playing gran turismo 2
You are getting a sub my friend.
I appreciate what you are trying to do with the shorter format so you can release more videos but i miss your in depth knowledge and obscure facts you usually portray in your full length features. Quality over quantity but would love you covering more group b and 90s btcc thanks keep up the good work.
I’ll still do the longer videos, so this should be more content.
@@BigCar2 i understood that this was bonus content. It was just unfortunate for myself that the topic was something i was very passionate about and would of liked your in depth presentation on. I'm sure you can appreciate that group b cars and retro motorsport is a great topic to expand on to grow your channel. Always love your vids.
Great videos,bruh. Keep them coming. Opel corsa would be a great episode
I'm sure I'll do that at some point.
Aleksandar Čavić it’s Vauxhall
@@louisbeerreviews8964 ok,whatever dude
This is a good episode! I couldn't tell it was all lifted from Wikipedia. You have a seriously quality channel. Hope you can keep it that way. Quality over quantity!
When I made this video here was the thinking - my videos usually take a long time, so during lock down I thought it would be good for more content for people, but how to make videos faster? People like reading Wikipedia articles, but people would like them more if there were photos & video to go with them? I do clearly mark in the description that the script came from Wikipedia.
@@BigCar2 Yes, I think at the time, you pointed out that this video was mostly from Wikipedia and you asked us how that sat with us. I think I was just adding my support for your decision. Hope my comment came over that way. You still have a great channel. Looking forward to the Audi100 video. I grew up in 3 of them.
That’s my favorite car because of the mid engine and the chassis
the Ford RS 200 is everything what a supercar could be:
-can be a road machine
-can be a rally machine too
-outstanding handling
-quick
-powerful
-lightweight
-compact but powerful and tunable engine
-reasonably sized dimensions
-full time AWD
-toughly built
-durable
-timeless
It's a shame the world never got to see that improved RS200. It would have been interesting if to see if Ford could have perfected it so it was one of the top rally cars. It's still my favorite group B car when it comes to its looks.
5:33 Now I know what to do with my Maestro 1.3HLE. The kit's made from the original moulds so no-one will ever suspect a thing!
An '85 Maestro HLE was my very first car.
Some people took the piss, but it stood out against all the Novas, Metros, AX's and Fiestas my mates thrashed into the ground.
Great car... Was a shame it died in typical early 90s style... nicked and used in a ram raid 😒
@@residentelect Yeah I actually looked at a 1.3L near me as a cheap runabout only the other week, but they want nearly a grand for it. I think they're nice little cars but not for that money. I didn't start driving til the late 90's but had a HC Viva instead the usual Saxo, 205 or Corsa. Now that really stood out.
Man, this car is bad to the bone, what a little monster! Shitty about the bad luck that followed it with the deaths and crashes. They should've started with a 4 cylinder bigger than a 1.8 liter and a compound turbo setup to overcome that low end lag.
I was wondering if you were going to mention the Reliant connection - my Uncle was employed there at the time and worked on the car. They probably got the contract as they were used to working with glassfibre.
Nice one! Remember Austin Rovers answer to this car the 6R4 MG Metro.
Unfortunately there isn’t a good Wikipedia article on it.
@@BigCar2 Austin Rover online is your best bet for detailed info.
I remember Martin Schanche in his RS200 battling 'Whispering' Will Gollop in his 6R4. Those guys didn't seem to like each other very much.
The Rs200 used in the later pic for the police pic. That was owned by a friend of mine. Hes owned some of the best RS cars out there.
Interesting, a car I remember but knew nothing about. My kinda layout but it looked a bit cheap and unoriginal. Stratos, need I say more. More of this format please:) How about Marcos.
The transmission setup is alot like Nissan GT-R but in reverse. GT-R has a front mounted engine, a transaxle and 4WD.
This is the only 80s supercar I'd like to own.
Ken block loved his tuned rs200
Had a Matchbox model of one as a kid!
Also, any chance of a history of the mad Renault 5s and Clios that were made over the years?
At some point I’m sure I will do both.
I still have my matchbox one - in red and white - from getting 8 tokens from weetabix! My friend had the mostly white and blue and the mostly blue and white ones. They were our favourites! :)
Nice format for a great subject. Well done. Any chance of you creating one for the Honda Prelude? Keep up the good work.
That's definitely on my radar. A dear friend had several.
@@BigCar2 Thanks so much. I'm sure a lot of your subscribers (and those that aren't!) would love to hear the story of this magnificent car. Thanks for your feedback, it's much appreciated.
Great video , R200 is a cool car
I recall seeing 64 of them in the Ford plant Aveley with a huge pile of parts -
Talk about a grail car. Always loved the RS200 and thank you for calling it a Reliant Robin and not what people today think its called which is completely wrong
I think you might be referring to people who call Del boy’s Reliant Regal van a Robin Reliant, so they’re wrong on 2 counts!
@@geespar1 True in part because I know Del Boy's car is a Regal. I'm referring to people calling it a Robin Reliant when it is called a Reliant Robin. I get really peed off when people call it a Robin Reliant as my Dad had two Robins when I was a kid so I should know what to call them
Andrew Drabble exactly, saying Robin Reliant is like saying Escort Ford! What I was saying though is with Del’s van they not only got the make and model the wrong way round, they even got the wrong model (I know you get this). Sometimes I wonder how blinding errors like this manage to catch on!
@@geespar1 Exactly. Makes you think what that type of person would call the Rebel, the Kitten, the Scimitar, the Fox, the Sabre and the Rialto lol
Andrew Drabble Hahahaha, yes good thought!
I reckon the RS200 would have found plenty of buyers as a detuned road car . It still looks cool today imo.
Not to be confused with the Toyota (Altezza) RS200, which is a Japanese exclusive IS200 powered by a Yamaha tuned 4-cylinder.