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I'll be returning too this year as Carlisle have asked me to speak again now I have my second book out. If you guys half-liked my Sierra history talk last year then I have a lot more left over if you want to see it! I'm trying to wrestle out some unusual prototypes too for the day like the cancelled...

If you’ve followed my trip to Germany the other week on Facebook you’ll have seen inside the secret archives. Then I looked around their backlot of show cars and prototypes which 360,000 people saw. The highlight, for me was to present to Ford’s entire design team, an honour I never expected when I ...

I grabbed a bunch of XR4Ti production shots that I'm sharing on Facebook and here on this forum. I asked Club members if they would like one of the remaining copies of my book 0 I keep them in NYC so you get postage for $5 instead of $23 from the UK. People got very enthusiastic and there is just on...

Thanks to all that came and heard me talk last week at Carlisle and for the various follow-up notes I received. It was a delight to meet everyone and thanks especially for Brad for inviting me and Paul and Saul's encouragement. It was a fun, if slightly surreal, evening to discuss this car that mean...

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the samples in the link :cheers Luckily they didn't do a drop top... http://i41.tinypic.com/aer0pj.jpg I shows how ballsy they were with XR4 - but (by European standards) this was a very large convertible. The market was on fire for Escort-sized cabs so the step-c...

This is a page from my book showing the Sierra XR4 Targa. I've many more pics of it that I'll bring along to Carlisle and tell you the story if you like. It was planned to tackle Capri four-cylinder market when that car died in Euopre. The market was really for smaller droptop Escort-sized cars and ...

If you're interested I'll post photos of the Sierra twin-turbo.

Hi Steve, I'll start with a couple: 1. I had read that the '89 XR4Ti was supposed to have, essentially, the Turbo Coupe's intercooler, breathing through a hood scoop, which was why they moved the fill jug to the driver's side, among other cooling system modifications which came to light for the '89...

Unfortunately, Rod won't know the answer to that one I'm afraid. He was in the UK at the time running SVE and so would have had little insight into what was being done stateside. In the UK, where he and I were based they didn't really indulge in blueprinted special engines. That's simply because the...

Rod Mansfield’s team created the legendary Sierra Cosworth, Capris Injection and XR4x4. I'm talking to him on Tuesday. He’s writing a piece for my new second book about what it was like to engineer the RS Capris and Capri Injection. What questions have you got for him – let me know! And if I know th...

DAReese wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:08 pmGreat book!

I'm glad you like it - your task now is to let everyone else here know why they should read it, especially now I've set up a discount code for MCA members! What were the things you liked/learned in the book? - Steve