The Ford RS200 - Information

25/10/2026

A slightly sad post from me, but I wanted those of you on here to hear it from me rather than spot it elsewhere first.

After 23 years, I’ve decided it’s time to offer chassis 193, E846 OCW, for sale.

It’s not been an easy decision. This car has been part of my life for a very long time, through the RS Owners Club, the book, the Ford A12 photo recreation and countless conversations, events, friends and memories along the way.

The simple truth is that I’m not using it enough. In fact, I think Stevie the cat has probably climbed into it more times than I have this year, which says rather a lot.

I’ve always believed these cars should be driven and enjoyed, not just sit under a cover, and I’ve reached the point where I’d rather see it go to the right next owner than keep pretending I’m going to make proper use of it again.

It remains very much the car I’ve always wanted it to be: fundamentally original, carefully maintained, sympathetically updated where it made sense, with the original parts retained. I know its history intimately and I’ll be very selective about where it goes.

There is an advert out there that you might see, so this is really just a heads-up to friends, owners and enthusiasts here before word inevitably gets around.

It will be a strange day when it finally leaves the garage.

£275,000 no offers before you go looking ;)

This FB page has been created to complement the information contained within www.rs200.org

03/10/2026

I have a sudden desire to immediately logo my 200 up to support their return 👏👏👏 Peter Trace what you up to this weekend? 🤣

25/09/2026

So who can work out what car this is?

Taken in Leeds around 1987 / 88 on display at Motosave.

09/06/2026

When this FB group was set up (years ago) it was, for some reason, set (by me fiddling probably) to "Private" and when our membership grew the option to turn it over to "Public" was removed by Facebook.

Today they asked me if I wanted it to be set to public and I said yes, please have a look at the photo attached to see what will happen next.

Karl Ashdown - Once the change has happened I'll turn on "participant approval" before someone can post or comment for the first time so we don't get spam.

09/06/2026

MOT time again.🤞I hardly drove her last year and I am starting to realise that I have far too many toys and hobbies with not enough hours in the week and not enough years left to play with them all. If I don't use her this year I have vowed to find her a new home. 😪

05/06/2026

I've been trawling through some more photos in my library here.

This day was when Steve (H20DRS), Dave (H673WYT), W***y (F99GKL) and myself (E846OCW) went up to Castle Coombe in 2005 for Rally Day I think.

C200RAN, C20ORS and C836SRB were there also - we had a little play on the track of course!

04/06/2026

03/06/2026

Fellow RS200 Owners - We have an invite to take our cars to this event - I know I have mentioned it a couple of times over the past few months but if any owners are up for an outing with their cars please email me :) - [email protected]

30/05/2026

Just in case you missed #053 selling recently 👍

29/05/2026

I sometimes get asked "how did this photoshoot come about" so ready for when I get old and can't remember the answer here it is (while I can still remember)!

I used to meet Dan Alcock from Ford PR for regular coffee chats as he lived locally. The new Focus RS was just being launched (2016) and that was of course 30 years after the launch of the RS200 (1986) and we were looking at the old photo on our phones taken on the A12 (which isn't far from where we were having the coffee) and we both sort of said, "Shall we"?

Dan arranged it all through the proper Ford channels and with a professional photographer we met on either a Sat or Sun morning while traffic was light, he also brought their RS500 Focus along. I don't think the images of the RS500 have ever been seen so here is a first for everyone.

That is me with my own RS200 ( #193 E846OCW) in police uniform (I was still a Police Officer at the time) and Dan in the Focus RS.

As for the original photo, that is Eddie Cross who told me..

"I was the Fleet Manager at Essex Police in the day, Neil Blackie Ford Account Manager (the other guy in the photo) asked us to assist, with a campaign which revolved around the RS Cosworth and the strap line which was something like "If you have one of these, you will need one of these (RS200) to catch it"

In those days EP especially worked with Ford on a lot of pre-production equipment, often with the competition guy (David Mountain / Mountune) in Witham. I went to Boreham and was given a tour and a ride around the rally circuit by John Taylor.

Essex Police had the car for a few days during which time we fitted the police livery, and the publicity photos were taken on the now A12 @ just down from Boreham we had to dodge the construction traffic!

After the photos, some Traffic officers had the car for a short while until they over rev'd it which caused a misfire, so it was returned to Ford, as you know the publicity campaign was never used.

I have great memories from Boreham with John Taylor, Gwyndaf Evans and Malcolm Wilson, because at the time I was also rallying ending up with an RS2000, which used one of Russell Brooks old shells which still had the witness marks of the ‘Heat for Hire’ livery.

So there you have it :)