{"id":1164265,"date":"2026-08-23T05:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1164265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T05:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:05:19","slug":"is-ford-considering-a-cheap-rally-car-sure-sounds-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1164265\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ford Considering A Cheap Rally Car? Sure Sounds Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Ford CEO Jim Farley, speaking to Top Gear, said the automaker wants to &#8220;democratize the rally car.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Farley explained that Ford wants to offer an affordable rally car option, but it&#8217;s unclear if he means just for Europe or for all markets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ford has a strong motorsport program right now, and a rally car would slot neatly into that portfolio.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The motorsport division at Ford wants to conquer seemingly every form of racing. There&#8217;s a hypercar in development, Raptor trophy trucks in Baja, and the wild T1 that takes on the Dakar Rally. You even have GT3 and GT4 Versions of the Mustang, as well.<\/p>\n<p>But Ford might also want to take a more aggressive shot at competing in the World Rally Championship. And that could lead to a new production car that would make any rally fan smile.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Top Gear, CEO Jim Farley says that Ford wants &#8220;to democratize the rally car.&#8221; He specifies that notion for both Ford and Europe, but Ford has shifted toward making many more of its cars available for the global market, as of late.<\/p>\n<p>Skip to the ten-minute mark if you want to hear Farley&#8217;s comments:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizer\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAYAAAA7KqwyAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAABpJREFUeNpi\/P\/\/PwMlgImBQjBqwLAwACDAAOVfAw9\/ZDvcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787461519_23_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"16\" height=\"9\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"block rounded-radius-4 img-dim w-num-52 h-num-52 cursor-pointer\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>So could Ford be cooking up a modern version of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/744389\/red-ford-rs200-for-sale\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"0\" data-params=\"%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22744389%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22red-ford-rs200-for-sale%22%7D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ford RS200<\/a>? Or would a &#8220;democratized rally car&#8221; be something more akin to a pumped-up Escort or Puma?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, talk like this gets us excited. Homologated, or even rally-inspired, production car options are typically quite entertaining machines. Farley goes on to say that there&#8217;s also a new supercar in the works, and that it needs to stand apart from what he views as an already well-served segment.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all well and good&#8230; just tell us more about your potential vision for an affordable rally car for the road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motor1&#8217;s Take<\/strong>: Words like these are music to our ears. There was a time when lots of manufacturers offered road versions of everyone&#8217;s favorite rally cars. We&#8217;d love to see Ford bring such a car back to market, but we are extremely curious about what it will look like, what model Ford will base it on, and what the automaker truly means by &#8220;affordable rally car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comfort-title-large flex gap-spacing-sm-base items-center\">\n<p>\t\tWe want your opinion!\n\t<\/p>\n<p>What would you like to see on Motor1.com?<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/survey\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tTake our 3 minute survey.\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"compact-body-medium\">&#8211; The Motor1.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ford CEO Jim Farley, speaking to Top Gear, said the automaker wants to &#8220;democratize the rally car.&#8221; Farley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1164266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[23787,4053,3606,548,316032,316031,316030,25342,316034,22234,28971,1072,391,312167,316033,1663,58033,173498,53,16,15,157224],"class_list":["post-1164265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-adventure","tag-affordable","tag-b2c","tag-ford","tag-ford-group","tag-ford-mustang","tag-ford-rs200","tag-global-market","tag-hypercar","tag-lincoln","tag-mass","tag-motorsport","tag-opinion","tag-racing-oriented","tag-rally-car","tag-rumors","tag-sporty","tag-supercar","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-young-drivers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117143086499909839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}