Tuesday 10th July 2001

New Boy at SVE

New man takes up the reins at Ford's Special Vehicle Engineering division

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[dubbs]

Popular - Fiesta RS Turbo? Don''t think so somehow - they only ever made 500, that''s less than the "popular" escort cosworth production run!! Dubbs betraying his ex rsoc roots!!

[paul]

Agreed - the RS Turbo Fiesta was really the end of a sad decline for the Fiesta model - In fact IMHO it represented the start of the Rinspeed/Halfords/Max Power bastardisation of many fine small cars. Nothing beats the purity of the original MK1 XR2 and it's heady 80bhp. <decsends into dull reminiscence>....