Time Attack Focus Cosworth

5th December 2012

The greatest modified cars are not really modified cars at all. The use of such a term would indicate that the initial vehicle largely remains and for the best Fords at Ford Fair this was most certainly not the case. When people take cars to extremes it's building rather than modifying, and every year the boundaries are pushed. The base car becomes more and more irrelevant and just as the type of canvas may dictate the paint used for a work…

The Trolley - 184mph Fiesta

29th October 2012

At each show there's always one or two cars which really stand out from all the others and justify a little more attention and photographic flattery than normal.

Luke's Mk3.5 is one such car and a machine you'll have no doubt heard of or seen before as it's exceedingly well known. This isn't really the time or place for a full feature and a handful of snapshots in a garage don't do the car justice so I'll gloss over the history of the…

Ford Fair 2012: Track Action

17th October 2012

When it comes to cars laying down laps of Silverstone, my observations led to conclude that there seems to be an inverse scale at work - the more enjoyable for the drivers, the less spectacular the viewing for everyone else.

Watching people swap paint whilst simultaneously burning off a grand's worth of rubber and then crawl back to the pits on bare rims ranks quite highly on the excitement scale, but as a pro drifter or touring car…