Even turbo power and a switch to rear-wheel drive couldn’t make the Mk3 Escort competitive against the upcoming mid-engined, 4WD weapons of 1980s rallying...
Unfortunately, while Ford was making up its mind about engines the Audi Quattro was embarking on a vivid demonstration of why the future would be four-wheel drive and, in light of this, the RS1700T project was forced to change tack.
This compromise wouldn’t be enough to save the 1700’s skin. In February 1983 old rallying hand Stuart Turner was appointed Ford’s director of European motor sports and rightly realised that the company had misread things more than it might admit. The future of Group B rallying wasn’t just four-wheel drive, it was mid-engined.
The loss of both projects was not in vain, however, since Turner then commissioned an all new Group B rally car, this time mid-engined, using the promising BDT from the RS1700T and with a chassis by Tony Southgate, the freelance engineering guru now relieved of his workload on the C100. The result was the RS200.
As for the 18 RS1700T prototypes, many were shipped to South Africa, where relaxed regulations allowed them to rally as works entries, putting valuable test miles on the BDT engine before the RS200 was ready. A handful survive today including one which lives in Cumbria with the man who helped to develop it, former Ford works driver Malcolm Wilson.
The RS200, meanwhile, competed in just one championship season before Group B was cancelled at the end of 1986.
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