Search results

Interesting build this. As someone from the rallying world, little cars like this interest me, as I think they represent the future. What do you reckon the upper limits are of the engine? With the capacity multiplier, it would still sit in the 2.0-litre class, but it could offer decent torque...

I do like these a lot. You'll spend all your money on fuel, but at least it will sound good while you're doing it. Are they reliable? I would imagine the mechanicals are fairly simple.

Had a weird mental image of some kind of heath robinson spacecraft behind the dealership there for some reason...

I do love a Sunflower Ph.1. White would be my ultimate preference, but it's definitely the nicest factory colour.

Cars are stunning. That many One:1s in one place is pretty mental. There were too many "ones" in the sentence too lol. Dealership looks pretty shonky though. Not exactly what you'd expect for that kind of car.

According to this... http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20181021000165 ...the target for 2018 was 2800 cars across Europe, and it looks like they almost doubled that. My local dealer said they are selling better than expected. There have been pictures online of a more hardcore version...

I do! But I think it might be possible to get a replica R5 kit for that, and that's much wider. Wider = better lol Might chance my arm and see if they'd do anything trade, but I doubt it. I suppose I wouldn't need the arch liners I guess, but it's still mega money considering the manufacturing...

Turns out it is the kit by Tarnock Garage, based loosely on the R5 Fiesta. Dropped them a note today - £2,500 + £200 for arch liners ?

Just had a quick Google. It looks like the kit might be one that Tarnock Garage have fitted to a couple of cars. One of the nicer looking wide arch kits for the MK7, outside of the proper R5 stuff, which is mega money!

Nice upgrade that! Get them for a decent price?

Nice to see that Orion is still about. Was a nicely put together car as I recall. Don't suppose you got any other pictures of the wide-arch Fiesta ST? Wonder what kit that is? What's odd is that there is a thread for a Ford show on here, but I didn't see anything about it on any Ford forum I use ?

I knew it lol

Speaking in Russia to each other is cheating as we don't know what you're saying. You might be saying horrible things about us :ROFLMAO: Welcome to the forum!

Was that a member?!

Yeah hopefully. It's a great opportunity to grow the sport in my view. I'd definitely like to go up to Mull. If you like the dark, Belgium might be for you. Apparently they do more of it than us.

My friend rallied an MG Maestro in the 90s. He did pretty well in it and it actually looked pretty good on Compomotive wheels!

Nice that. The best colour on the 197, along with white.

It's mega really. Hopefully we can start to emulate it with some of our new closed road events, but they are a very long way ahead of us. The area surrounding Ypres is fairly flat (I'm from Norfolk so I'm used to that), but there are some really nasty bumps and compressions to catch you out...

With an early end to the stages (from our perspective at least), we decided to head back to the hotel, get changed and then head into Ypres for the finish, some food and a beer. I can't really emphasise how different it is to the UK really. The cars came into town and people were laid back...

Couple more: One more...

Our last viewing point was on the Dikkebus stage. It was probably the best spot of the whole weekend but, sadly, a crash meant that the stage was cancelled after only a handful of cars. We saw the Masters go through, but not much more!

We stayed onto watch the main field run through the same stage, albeit from a slightly different position. I won't bore you with loads of videos of that. But I can't not post a couple more of the 911s: More to come as I upload it.

Saturday morning saw a slight change, as we decided to try and catch a bit of the Ypres Historic Rally, which runs alongside the main event, but to a slightly different timetable. I was quite keen to see at least some of it, because it's pretty different to historic rallying in the UK. Events...

And a few more from Friday: To be continued...

A couple from the R5 field... Remember those 911s from earlier? Lordy, the noise. Incredible cars. Thank God the Belgians aren't so obsessed with restricting noise. You could hear these from what felt like miles away: Still more to follow

Friday evening saw us attend two stages. The first was in Mesen, but these videos are from Kemmelberg, which is quite a famous part of the rally. Straight into the videos... Another former WRC driver, Bruno Thiry, in an Opel Corsa A on the Masters rally: Group A Impreza: Group A Escort...

The Cloth Hall in the background of this shot was flattened during WW1 and subsequently rebuilt and turned into a museum: IMG_20190628_143425 by Jon Scoltock, on Flickr New Fiesta R2T: MVIMG_20190628_144150 by Jon Scoltock, on Flickr Old Fiesta R2T: IMG_20190628_144206 by Jon Scoltock, on...

Moving away from shakedown, I thought it was worth sharing a few pictures of Ypres itself. The service park is based right in the centre of town and basically takes over. Skoda back the event and have a huge presence there, along with Renties, who are a car hire company, and sponsor this (more...

Few more from shakedown: More to follow from the actually (it might take some time as I have loads to go through)

Clio R3T: Bit of a last minute hit of the button to try and catch a 'whoopsy' from one of the 1M guys. His co-driver was filming the whole thing on his phone lol: To be continued even more....