Ford Sierra
1987 Land Rover Range Rover 3.5L V8 from UK and Ireland
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It was a Ford Sierra 2.3D. This was the only diesel engine offered in the Sierra, and, registered in 1988 it was around the same time that company fleets began adopting diesel cars in the UK.
After owning a Ford Sierra for about 20 years with no problems I have now traded it in on the scrappage deal this year. I decided to get a brand new Ford Fiesta Style 1.25 (82), I am now beginning to regret buying this 59 Reg Ford Fiesta.
Mechanically unrelated to the 150hp Escort RS 2000 of the day, the Cosworth model was really a shortened Ford Sierra Sapphire 4x4 RS Cosworth chassis with an Escort body on top.
When I was a kid, I remember my dad trying to decide what car to have next after his latest Ford Sierra has just blown a head gasket.
But at £23,138 the M3 was costly, especially compared with the faster, £16,200 Ford Sierra Cosworth, and so remained a rare sight on UK roads.
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7 litre twin overhead cam engine driving the rear wheels through a gearbox originally from a Ford Sierra. The fibreglass body and carbon-fibre was mounted onto a space frame chassis with independent suspension all round.
From a designer like Patrick Le Quement, who with other employers was also responsible for the Ford Sierra, Audi A6, and the Twingo, Laguna and Laguna II from Renault, you can expect a ‘pushing out of the envelope'.
WOLF's involvement in racing since 1977 has played a big part in that. Who doesn't remember the feared Cosworth RS 500 versions of the Ford Sierra - lovingly called "Cossie" by its fans - with which WOLF RACING stirred up the DTM ... and won?
G20's G4 ancestry is obvious from that classically curvaceous styling, while its race-proven chassis is derived from its more immediate ancestor the G27, and utilises the same all round wishbone suspension with its mixture of Ginetta and Ford Sierra ...
 See also: Ford, Renault, BMW, Vauxhall Zafira, VW Golf
  
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