Ford RS200 Evolution 1986

[Paul Delgado]

For years, many people were baffled when they opened up the Guinness Book of Records and discovered that the world's fastest accelerating car was a none other than a Ford - and a curiously small, almost goofy looking one which looked like nothing made on American soil.

That's because the RS200 was a homologation special produced by Ford of Great Britain. It was specifically designed as Ford's first four wheel drive contender for the radical Group B class rally racing, but a minimum number of road-certified examples had to be made to meet homologation requirements.

Since the best in the business came out to help Ford, including chief engineer John Wheeler and Tony Southgate, the RS200 Evolution represented the absolute pinnacle of modern racing development. What these blokes did was take bits from the old RS1700T breed of rally cars, mount a modified version the Ford/Cosworth engine in the middle of a lightweight aluminum chassis, clothe it with a simple white gel coat body designed by Ghia and then apply the four wheel drive forumula which Audi sucessfully introduced into the series.

While over 200 standard RS200s were made, only 24 Evolution models were produced to stay ahead of the competition. These included a special BTD-E 2.1 liter engine equipped with a massive turbo to the effect of 420 bhp. Each was easily identified by the much larger air scoop that houses the large air/air intercooler. Depending on boost, the engine could produce a wide range of power, and at maximum boost (1.6 bar, 23psi) it offered a remarkable 580 bhp at 8000 rpm. When combining the extremely lightweight chassis, a low polar moment of inertia and massive amount of turbo-lag, power delivery on the limit was particularly was hard to manage.

However, the resulting four wheel drive monster was 'the fastest accelerating car in the world', and as driven by Stig Blomqvist, a RS200 Evo achieved the 0-62mph (100kph) Guinness world record time of 3.07 seconds, a figure that stood for twelve years!

Unfortunately, Group B was cancelled after Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Crestos died at the 1986 Tour de Course and this meant the Evolution along with its competitiors that where deemed 'too fast to race'. However, Ford was able to save face and continue on with the regular 1.8 liter versions, contesting the European Rally Championship and winning a few victories from 1986 to 1990.

[Gerardito]

esta vacilon...

[Osito Jr]

ami ese carro se me ha parecido simpre como un carro de juguete no c xq... jejej

pero es un chuzito para rally...

salu2

[Paul Delgado]

lo interesante es en lo que hace de 0 a 100... 3,07s, manteniendo el record guiness por mas de 12 años como el auto de produccion con la aceleracion mas rapida.
Por algo desaparecieron al grupo B de rally

[Impreza 007]

En Gran Turismo tiene un pesimo handling.

El carro a mi me gusta, me parece avanzado para su epoca.

Impreza007

[Christopher M.]

When combining the extremely lightweight chassis, a low polar moment of inertia and massive amount of turbo-lag, power delivery on the limit was particularly was hard to manage.

Aqui esta la explicacion del problema de handling.
Ese carro con todo y la traccion integral es un carro que solo gente que de verdad maneja un monton lo puede controlar, y ni que decir de llevarlo al limite...
Lo que me encanta es ese panel de instrumentos, yo creo que cuesta encontrar uno que vaya mas directo al grano. Se ve que lo tiene solo para cumplir formalismos.

[mclaren]

demasiado chuzo, un lujo de carro en la linea de los lancia, quattro (B) etc ...

[Gerardito]

When combining the extremely lightweight chassis, a low polar moment of inertia and massive amount of turbo-lag, power delivery on the limit was particularly was hard to manage.

Aqui esta la explicacion del problema de handling.
Ese carro con todo y la traccion integral es un carro que solo gente que de verdad maneja un monton lo puede controlar, y ni que decir de llevarlo al limite...
Lo que me encanta es ese panel de instrumentos, yo creo que cuesta encontrar uno que vaya mas directo al grano. Se ve que lo tiene solo para cumplir formalismos.

Parece el panel de instruentos del serie III jajaja

[Christopher M.]

When combining the extremely lightweight chassis, a low polar moment of inertia and massive amount of turbo-lag, power delivery on the limit was particularly was hard to manage.

Aqui esta la explicacion del problema de handling.
Ese carro con todo y la traccion integral es un carro que solo gente que de verdad maneja un monton lo puede controlar, y ni que decir de llevarlo al limite...
Lo que me encanta es ese panel de instrumentos, yo creo que cuesta encontrar uno que vaya mas directo al grano. Se ve que lo tiene solo para cumplir formalismos.

Parece el panel de instruentos del serie III jajaja

Mae ni en mil anos luz el motor del series va a llegar a las modestas 8000 vueltas :twisted: :twisted:
Yo creo que de 2800 no pasa jajaja. Tambien la velocidad de 0 a 100 no esta disponible por que hasta dodne se sabe no llega a 100.
jajaja son varas.

[chapucr]

Este carro es un avión, y en general los carros del Grupo B estaban más alla del limite de nosotros los mortales.
Como decia en el video que pusieron por ahi, los maes que manejaban estas cosas no eran pilotos, eran dioses.

Gerardito, varias cosas:
- La aceleración de 0 a 100 de un series es proporcional en una escala exponencial a la del RS200, de 0 a 100 en 3 semanas.
- La velocidad TERMINAL de un series es de aproximadamente 180 km/h, cuando digo terminal me refiero a que solo se da cuando se salen del puente y terminan en el fondo del rio, aun así ni siquiera se acerca a la velocidad máxima del RS200.
- COMPRE JEEP!!!