The Ford Sierra RS500 becomes a continuation car three times!

Recently updated on November 4, 2023 at 08:28 am

The Ford Sierra RS500 is undisputedly one of the greatest performance cars and a real motorsport legend. And now the classic will return in a particularly small edition. As a joint project of the British company CNC Motorsport AWS with the touring car driver and designer Andy Roses. Overall, however only three copies based on Original Sierra bodies arise on behalf of the customer. The first copy, which should be ready at the beginning of next year, will even be based on a real one Racing car body shell that had not been used since the 1980s. It is planned that all three vehicles will have the necessary permits for historic motorsport events and races such as the HSCC touring car or the Silverstone Classic obtain. According to Andy Rouse Engineering's specifications, the Sierra's are called Group A racing car and built using original drawings and data.

Drive: new Sierra RS500 engine

Each of the three vehicles should have a "new" Sierra RS500-YB engine which is manufactured with the help of the former engine builder Vic Drake. He has already built over 100 of the RS500 motors and so should he 575 hp engine (423 kW) for the three vehicles. The engine is coupled to a Five-speed Getrag manual transmission, a Proflex fuel system and there is a Viscos differential and rear-wheel drive. All three vehicles have the original Gauges and are in the plain White, but with an optional color selection. Almost all components of the 2022 Sierra RS500 are manufactured to the exact specifications of Andy Rouse. This includes the front ones journal, the rear Wishbone, tankwho have heated Windshield and even the Sidepipe sports exhaust. Rouse himself becomes one Roll cage made of steel for the vehicles. The cars are produced to 1990 specifications.

almost a quarter of a million euros expensive

Rouse says: "The RS500 has always been a lot of fun and of all the cars I've driven, the RS500 caliber is the one I'd still like to have today". "When Alan told me that he had bought a brand new three-door body, we got the idea in our Binley workshop Continuation Cars to manufacture. After seeing Alan build his own engineering company, it was clear that he was the only person I trusted to build cars that could end up with the ARE badge.“By the way, every vehicle (Sierra RS, Merkur XR4TI or Rover SD1) costs £ 185.000 (approx. € 219.000) without special requests. If we get more information, there will of course be an update for this report. You will be informed of this if you simply use ours Feed subscribe to. Have fun watching the pictures and stay true to us!

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The Ford Sierra RS500 becomes a continuation car!
Photo credit: CNC Motorsport AWS

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