In motorsport it’s harder staying at the top then getting there, and Ford learned this lesson the hard way.
Following on from the Escort’s dominance of rallying throughout the Seventies, Ford had a tough act to follow, made tougher by the fact the company ushered in the Eighties with the third-generation 1980 Escort in a hatchback body style and with front-wheel drive.
Ford knew front-wheel drive would be no good against the opposition, and started going about its Group B plan with a custom rear-wheel-drive chassis and a Frankenstein Mk3 Escort body on top of it all.
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