The Ford RS200 shall be reborn as a particular, limited-run fortieth anniversary automobile

The legendary Ford RS200 is about to be reborn as the primary in a collection of British-made automobiles with official backing from the Blue Oval itself.

Boreham Motorworks, a part of the London-based DRVN Automotive Group, has signed a licensing settlement with Ford to “produce and re-master” a number of the automaker’s most revered historic fashions.

Boreham’s “redesigned” tackle the RS200 – which shall be unveiled later this 12 months to mark the mannequin’s fortieth anniversary – shall be inbuilt Coventry from the bottom up as an “all-new” creation, quite than utilizing elements from current automobiles.

Similar to the Kimera Evo37, HWA Evo and Maturo Stradale, the Boreham RS200 shall be equivalent to its Nineteen Eighties inspiration by way of silhouette and mechanical make-up, however the LED lights seen within the preview picture point out that it will likely be a theme. For some heavy updating and upgrading.

Boreham cites the RS200’s mid-mounted engine, compound bodywork and all-wheel drive as amongst its defining traits, and it is vitally more likely to preserve these traits – however with much less fashionable gear and most certainly a rise in manufacturing.

Most significantly, Boreham says it’s dedicated to delivering “the head of analogue driving expertise”, and is due to this fact unlikely to stray too removed from the preliminary, primary billing of the Group B rally legend.

Along with the all-new ‘redesigned’ automobiles, Boreham has additionally been given permission to construct a spread of continuous ‘blueprint-accurate’ variations of a few of Ford’s most revered historic fashions, beginning with the MK2 Escort later this 12 months.