Originally Posted by martinrs500labatts
doug,
you misted one point, your rs500 total only adds up to 496 built,
thats 4 short!
so 392 black
52 moonstone
56 white including the four proto types all still around
so in the end we have 500
OK Martin to clear up this point, this is the information I have:
The actual "production" run (in other words cars produced for selling on to customers through the dealership) was 392 in Black, 52 in Moonstone and 52 in White a total of 496 cars.
BUT before the Tickford production run FOUR protoypye RS500's were built to complete Ford engineering tests. At a cost of a little over £ 500,000 (half a milloin pounds!) Ford executed all durability testing and the manafacturing on these FOUR prototypes. The prototypes went through 100,000 miles of endurance testing that included 6,200 miles each at 140 MPH !!!!
I very much doubt that the 4 white prototypes were ever offered for sale.........Unless anyone can shed any light on this ?????????