M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[mArvAlcao17]

For some reason, i wish Ford of Europe would create their version of Ford Performance in Europe.
I mean, kinda like what Toyota have (TRD in American and TMG in Europe) or Honda (Honda Racing and HPD).

My thought is, as the Fiesta road cars are no longer sold in American market, the FP guys in Michigan doesn't see much value to give more funding to the European-based racing sub-division, preferred to give that to the teams which run, for example, Mustang as it's avaliable globally.

[Tarmop]

Ford is laying of thousands of workers, stopping production of some models and continuing with some only in one factory. We should be glad they are even a bit present.

[AndyRAC]

Of course.

I was concerned the business will pay a big price in the long-run for taking their eyes off their R5 , which is their main business. But I think Malcolm knows what he's doing.

I'm sure the Bentley GT3 is a money maker....

[Zeakiwi]

Did the ford cars meet the new euro emission regulations introduced last year?

https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/01/f...e-in-2019.html (Euro layoffs)

Ford also closing Focus line in Argentina.

Ford will have to set up a plant with only robots somewhere.

[Andre Oliveira]

Fiesta R2T National with 155hp and R1 with 140hp to come.

https://translate.googleusercontent....pERAKUwzyM0ZYQ

[Got Mail]

There seems to be a pretty big assumption being made that manufacturing and selling R5 cars is a profitable business.

I'm not sure the original sale will generate much profit given the price cap.

Parts sales will be a different matter.

[N.O.T]

Parts sales will be a different matter.

why ? they pay parts with babanas and they only use money on the car itself ?

its like those nesspresso machines and the retards that buy them they pay for the machine but then they milk them with those capsules...

[Mirek]

There seems to be a pretty big assumption being made that manufacturing and selling R5 cars is a profitable business.

I'm not sure the original sale will generate much profit given the price cap.

Parts sales will be a different matter.

Yes, I don't think they do any reasonable profit (if any) of the car sale alone. What makes the profit is the spare parts and the after sale services. It is indeed a profitable business. At least for some.

[RS]

Jouhki is paying for Suninen right?

[ToughMac]

This might sound like a crazy question but does anyone know the specs of the upcoming Fiesta R5? Apart from the R5 regs is it going to be a three cylinder or a four cylinder? As far as I know the top spec Fiesta ST is a 1.5 three cylinder engine. If this is what M-Sport are planning on using it's pretty understandable why they are delaying the launch for so long.