did ford stop the big turbo after 2500 cars produced,or did they make more ?

 

Surely not 2500 as they needed 3500 for homologation.

 

nope! defo 2500 needed for International group a rallying,
just dont know if Ford did stop at 2500 which was FORD SPECIAL
VEHICLE ENGINEERINGS original idea...
oh and excuse my manners Azrael! how are you!!

 

I don't think they did stop as there are big turbos with and without homologaitn extras like water injection bag. Also on the continent (I was told) you could order big turbos even later.

I'm pretty sure it was 3500 identical samples at the time for Grp.A, but I don't care enough to look through FIA sporting code

Could be better... but I'll manage ..

 

Karmann made 7143 Escort Cosworths, approx 2000 being YBP.

 

2500 required for homologation purposes I thought

 

They made more than required 2500 of the homologation model (that's not just an LT model, it had the WI nozzle, water 'bag tank', piping & pumps), can't remember the exact figure though.

 

Karmann made 8087 Escort Cosworth in the Osnabruck factory.
Got that info from the Karmann factory itself.

 

Speedy G. I know at least 3 different infos from Karmannn factory itself

 

Could be m8 as they weren't that helpfull when I called and mailed them several times.

 

Speedy G. they may be making up those figures. Tryphon Georgalides form rallycars.com has even some yearlyproductionnumbers on his site. Someone from here posted some other number and you yet another.

 

I think that we will never genuinly know how much Escort Cosworths were build.

 

Speedy G. how many

I think someone knows for sure but you can count those things in many manners. Probably it depends if you count rallycars or not, if you count some incomplete or special cars if you count shells assembled at Karmann or whole cars etc.

 

The figure I quoted is for production ending 10th January 1996, maybe some more were made after that. I also have seen some Cosworth quoted production figures of 5181 YBT engines and 2026 YBP engines ending 15th December 1995.

 

Last time I checked with the historical department at Karmann they gave me this information.

7145 completed veichles, 937 bodyshells, 8082 in total.


Completed cars
1992 - 3,448
1993 - 1,143
1994 - 1,180
1995 - 1,306
1996 - 68

Bodyshells
1992 - 124
1993 - 225
1994 - 369
1995 - 110
1996 - 109

 

not many 96 ers about then

 

RS 1800! when you found this info,did you notice figures for lhd and rhd
and what about colours,any help would be great
i owned a RS 2000 4X4 and found out it was one of a few by asking questions, it made the car feel even more special knowing that!!!

 

whats the number stamped next to the RHS front suspension turret?

Is this to track boreham shells or...

anyone know?

 

i know mine was produced december -95 checking my chassi number with fords database. Making it maybe one of the last 100 produced, feels a bit special.

 

mine was built 29/12/95 close to the end