Rally

The Ford Escort Mk1 replaced the Anglia, won the World Cup Rally and the Safari, spawned the Twin Cam, RS1600 and Mexico, and became the most valuable ordinary Ford ever made. A guide to the dogbone-grille original, the fast versions, the 2026 continuation and what survivors cost.

The Ford Escort RS Cosworth was a rally homologation special wearing an Escort suit over Sierra Cosworth four-wheel-drive bones, its whale-tail wing the defining fast-Ford image of the 1990s. A guide to big-turbo and small-turbo cars, the rally record, the replica problem, buying checks and values.

The Mini Cooper turned Alec Issigonis's economy car into a giant-killer, and the Cooper S won the Monte Carlo Rally three times. A guide to the 1960s Cooper and Cooper S, the 1990s revival, how to tell a genuine car from a clone, and what to look for when buying one.

The classic Ford Escort ran across six generations from 1968 to 2000, from the rear-drive rally cars to the front-drive hot hatches and the mighty RS Cosworth. A guide to the Mk1 to Mk6, how the generations differ, the everyman saloons and the celebrated fast Escorts, the booted Orion, and what to look for when buying.

The squared-off Escort Mk2 of 1975 was a humble rear-drive family car that doubled as one of the most successful rally cars of all time. The RS1800, RS2000 and Mexico turned the badge into a legend while millions of ordinary Escorts did the school run. The development story, the rally cars, and the survivors.

Rootes Group's last clean-sheet small saloon, sold as a Hillman, then a Chrysler, then a Talbot, with a yellow rally homologation Tiger in the middle of it. A guide to the lineage, the Tiger, what to look for, and what they're worth.

The Vauxhall Chevette was Britain's best-selling hatchback for parts of 1978, the rally homologation HS won the 1979 British Rally Championship, and almost all of them are now scrapped. A guide to the variants, the HS, what to look for, and what they're worth.