 | |
| Company type | Car tuning |
|---|---|
| Industry | Motorsport Automotive engineering |
| Predecessor | Ford Special Vehicle Engineering |
| Founded | Boreham, Essex, England (1963 (1963)) |
| Founder | Ford Motor Company |
| Defunct | 2015 |
| Successor | Ford Performance |
| Headquarters | Dunton, England |
| Area served | United Kingdom |
| Key people | David PericakGlobal Director Ford Performance
Jamal Hameedi Chief Program Engineer Global Performance Vehicles Kerry Baldori Chief Functional Engineer Global Performance Vehicles |
| Products | Racing cars Performance cars |
| Parent | Ford Motor Company |
| Divisions | Ford Racing |
| Subsidiaries | Ford's Performance Vehicles Ford's Team RS |
| Website | fordracing.com |
The Ford TeamRS was Ford Motor Company's European performance car and motorsport division for Ford Racing activity. The Ford RS badge was born for rally racing, the RS stands for Rallye Sport. TeamRS was the successor to Ford Special Vehicle Engineering.
TeamRS has been superseded by a global organisation called Ford Performance. They are responsible for the conversion of the 2006 Ford GT from US-Spec to Euro-Spec.
History
Ford RS models
- 1969 - Ford 17m RS, Ford 20m RS, Ford 15m RS
- 1970 - Ford Escort RS1600, Ford Capri RS2600
- 1973 - Ford Escort RS2000, Ford Capri RS3100
- 1975 - Ford Escort RS1800
- 1976 - Ford Escort RS Mexico, Ford Escort RS2000 Mk II
- 1981 - Ford Escort RS1600i
- 1984 - Ford Escort RS Turbo, Ford RS200
- 1985 - Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
- 1987 - Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth
- 1988 - Ford Sierra Cosworth
- 1990 - Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4. Ford Fiesta RS Turbo
- 1991 - Ford Escort RS2000
- 1992 - Ford Escort RS Cosworth, Ford Fiesta RS1800
- 1994 - Ford Escort RS2000 4x4
- 2002 - Ford Focus RS
- 2003 - Ford Tierra RS/Ford Laser Lynx RS
- 2009 - Ford Focus RS Mk II
- 2010 - Ford Focus RS500
- 2015 - Ford Focus RS Mk III
Ford ST models
- 1997 - Ford Mondeo ST24
- 2000 - Ford Mondeo ST200
- 2002 - Ford Focus ST170, Ford Mondeo ST220
- 2004 - Ford Fiesta ST
- 2005 - Ford Focus ST
- 2012 - Ford Focus ST
- 2018 - Ford Focus ST
- 2013 - Ford Fiesta ST
- 2017 - Ford Fiesta ST
- 2019 - Ford Edge ST
- 2020 - Ford Explorer ST
See also
- Ford Racing
- Ford Performance Vehicles Special Vehicle Team (SVT), North America's performance car division
- Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV), Australia's performance car division
- Ford Special Vehicle Operations (SVO)
- Ford World Rally Team
- The Professionals (TV series)
References
External links
- Official Ford Focus RS on Facebook
- Focus RS Owners Club (FocusRSoc.com)
- First Ford RS Owners Club (rsownersclub.co.uk)
Media links
| Ford Rally Sport series | |
|---|---|
| Fiesta | |
| Focus | |
| Escort | |
| Capri | |
| Sierra | |
| Taunus | |
| Misc | |
| Ford Motor Company | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divisions/ marques |
|  | ||||
| Subsidiaries |
| |||||
| Joint ventures and shareholdings |
| |||||
| Facilities and products | ||||||
| People |
| |||||
| Racing teams | ||||||
| Related topics | ||||||
| Ford vehicles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current models |
| | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Former models (by date of introduction) |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Military | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Related topics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
