Fast Ford October 2022

SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE! How amazing was Ford Fair this year? With beautiful sunshine, loads to see to and do, plus a load of truly stunning fast Fords on display all around the show, it’s easily my favourite event of the year. I’m still beaming from the show (and my head is still glowing from the sunburn too!), because for me it shows what the fast Ford scene is all about. I loved the fact that one minute I was talking to enthusiastic club members about their cars and the next minute I’m chatting to current top-flight racing drivers, motorsport teams, and legends from Group A glory days. And they were all mingled together, everyone just out enjoying the day in the sun chatting to like-minded enthusiasts about cars. Where else…

A Suzuki Swift Sport doesn’t sound like the ideal starting point for a fast Ford fan, but for Suffolk-based Mason Klingsick, it was the first in a long line of motors he tried before finding his rightful place at Uncle Henry’s feet. Quick to modify the Suzuki, Mason added a custom exhaust, semi-slicks and an induction kit. Since then, many cars have spent time on the Klingsick driveway, including a caged and tuned Audi TT and a sorted Subaru Impreza WRX. Eventually, he saw the Blue Oval-shaped light and crossed the county line to Cambridgeshire to pick up this Focus in 2019. He says, “I’ve had loads of other cars, but I never really kept them for long – normally only for about five or six months. That was until…

P roduction of the Focus will end in 2025, Ford has announced. The demise of the family hatch is also likely to mean the end of Ford production in Saarlouis, Germany (home to some of the greatest fast Fords we’ve ever seen) – although the firm has yet to confirm that the plant will be closed. “We don’t have in our planning cycle an additional model that goes into Saarlouis,” commented Stuart Rowley, Ford of Europe boss, although the company is said to be looking into ‘other alternative opportunities for vehicle production’. Ford’s next priority is its new-generation electric car family, which will be built in Valencia, Spain from next year. Meanwhile, the Focus has dropped out of the UK top ten in recent months, with Ford’s strongest sellers now…

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SCORPION RED POWER PUMA ST PREDATOR EXHAUST £497.20 Scorpion’s new Predator exhaust system for the Puma is not for the faint of heart; as with other products in the Predator range, it removes the rear silencer completely. Scorpion advises that it is for closed-circuit use only, but with all restrictions removed (especially when fitted alongside a sports GPF or GPF-delete), the Predator system significantly improves flow compared to the OE exhaust (for maximum performance potential) and unleashes an almighty roar too. Available as a valved or non-valved option, with 90mm polished Daytona, or the 90mm carbon Ascari tailpipes, it’ll add a visual boost to the back end too. For more details, speak to Scorpion. www.scorpion-exhausts.com GAZ SHOCKS COSWORTH 4X4 GOLD COILOVERS £1229.16 Gaz is reintroducing the Gold coilover kit for…

August 1997 was drawing to a close. Millions – no, billions – of people around the globe were waking up to shocking news: Diana, Princess of Wales was dead. She’d been killed in a car crash during the early hours of the morning; the black Mercedes S280 she was traveling in had collided with a Fiat Uno and smashed into a roof support pillar in a Paris underpass. She died in hospital at 3am. Regardless of your views on royalty, there’s no denying how much impact Diana’s death made on the world. Outpourings of emotions became surreal, continuing through the media for months; even years. For many, it was life changing: Di had been an inspiration; a fairy-tale princess; how could this blessed being succumb to a mortal passing? The…