The Engine, Gearbox and rear suspension were completely different to the standard Europa and were taken in their entirety from the Lotus 23 / Lotus 22 Formula Junior with a 165 hp ( 123 kW ) 1594 cc Lotus / Ford / Cosworth twin cam engine, which used a Cosworth-modified Kent block, and a Hewland FT 200 5-speed gearbox and suspension with reversed bottom wishbone, top link and dual radius arms.

Cosworth has had a long and distinguished career in Formula One, beginning in 1963.

Since 2006, Cosworth has committed itself to engineering consultancy and component manufacture for an increasingly diverse customer base, including original equipment manufacturer ( OEM ) automotive, aerospace, defence and aftermarket sectors.

Cosworth has broadened this range to supply complete high-performance Subaru EJ25 engines and components for Subaru Imprezas, as well as components for Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Nissan vehicles with the VQ35 engine.

Cosworth has had a long relationship with Ford Motor Company, which began when Cosworth started manufacturing racing engines in 1959.

One of the most successful and longest-lived projects of Cosworth has been its CART / Champ Car engine program.

Cosworth has subsequently made several V10 engines for a number of Formula One teams.

In the USA, the name has also appeared in the title of a road car ( well before it did in Europe ) as the Cosworth version of the Chevrolet Vega.

Inside, the CS400 has Recaro leather seats with " Cosworth " label, piano black center console panel, and " Cosworth "- badged floor mats.

It has its own chassis, suspension and interior and is available with either 2 litre ( 200 bhp ) or 2. 3 litre ( 260 bhp ) Ford Cosworth Duratec engines.

During the 1973 season, the Cosworth DFV engine powered to victory in every single race in the 15 race season, a performance that has never been repeated.

File: 1987 ford sierra rs500. jpg | This Ford Sierra RS Cosworth has a factory-installed rear spoiler.

The Escort Cosworth ceased production in 1996, but it has already achieved classic status and has a huge following.

The new engine would become the standard design and manufacturers could opt to use whole units, construct their own from designs provided by Cosworth, or produce their own engine with the caveat that it be limited to the same power as the new " standard " engine.

1. 5-litre turbocharged engines had become universal during 1985, heralding the extinction of the 3. 0-litre naturally aspirated Ford Cosworth DFV engine.

Vickers had outsourced to Cosworth the production of the old 6. 75 litre Rolls-Royce engine for use in the continued Continental and Azure models, so reverting to the old standby engine was a natural choice for the company.

Power came from a 1. 8 litre, single turbocharged Ford / Cosworth " BDT " engine producing in road-going trim, and between 350 and in racing trim ; upgrade kits were available for road-going versions to boost power output to over.

However, with engine rule changes for the 1990 season and the launch of the new Aston Martin Volante model, Ford provided the limited supply of Cosworth engines to the Jaguar cars racing team.

Although Brabham bought Cosworth DFV engines for the 1969 season, Rindt left to join Lotus.

1998 also saw the sale of Rolls-Royce Motors and Cosworth to Volkswagen Group for 430 million pounds beating out BMW's offer of 340 million pounds.

The engine was not ready for the start of the 1985 season, so the team converted their M185 chassis to accept a Cosworth DFV engine for the first two races.

The motor for the racebike was specially built by Cosworth.

Cosworth is a high-performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing ( motorsport ), mainstream automotive and defence industries.

The end of the 2006 F1 season marked the end of Cosworth's remarkable 43 year association with the series, as no team opted to use Cosworth for 2007.

Cosworth, despite being an independent company, was supported by Ford Motor Company for many years, and most of the Cosworth engines were named as Ford engines.

After Keith Duckworth decided he didn't want to be involved with the day-to-day business of running a growing company, he sold out to United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) in 1980, retaining his life presidency and day-to-day technical involvement with Cosworth, and becoming a UEI board director ; UEI was a group of small to medium-sized technology companies which was taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988-Carlton was primarily interested in some of the audio-visual companies in the UEI portfolio and Cosworth was a poor fit with these ; a new buyer for the company in the engineering / automotive sector was sought and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990.

Cosworth began its association with Lotus Cars by work on the longer stroke version of the Kent, which had a capacity of and was used in the Lotus 7. and units were developed in 1963 for use in Formula B and sports car racing, and a twin overhead camshaft version was developed to power the Lotus Cortina.

It was the advent of turbocharged engines in Formula One which sounded the death knell for the venerable DFV, and in 1986 Cosworth returned to the lower formulae preparing the DFV for the newly created Formula 3000, with the installation of a compulsory 9, 000 rpm rev limiter, which scaled power back from 500 to ; the DFV remained in this class until 1992.

In 1968 ; Cosworth created the DFV's first derivation, a version for the Tasman Series, the DFW.

Ford backed Cosworth with creating a new interim design for IndyCar racing in the late 1980s, the DFS, which merged DFR technology into the ageing DFX design, but it was eventually rendered obsolete by advancing technology.

Cosworth increased its association with Ford in 1969, by developing a double overhead camshaft ( DOHC ) 16-valve inline four-cylinder engine for road use in the Ford Escort.

Working from the Kent block, Cosworth created a for homologation purposes.

The YB series of engines are based on the older Pinto engine block, and were introduced in the road-going Ford Sierra RS Cosworth in 1986 with. With 5, 000 units built for homologation purposes in Group A, both for rallies and touring cars.

This made the engine roughly as powerful as the Cosworth DFV, but proved to be too much for the stock block, which broke on many occasions.

It is reputed that many of its key design elements ( particularly the valvetrain ) were first seen in the 1991 Suzuki GSX-R750M motorcycle engine ( also a Melling design ), and that the head flowed better than the famous Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine.

Hahne claimed that chassis and engine were among the worst of the many March and Cosworth delivered that year.

In the UK, the arrival of the Cosworth DFV engine meant that many teams could now afford to build their own chassis around a good engine / transmission package, so Cooper, Lotus and Brabham stopped the production of customer Formula 1 cars.

An Ford Escort RS Cosworth | Escort RS Cosworth on a stage rally, driven by British driver Malcolm Wilson ( Rally ) | Malcolm Wilson.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

Ford offered appearance packages but not a factory performance package similar to the Cosworth Vega or the 304 V8 Gremlin X.

Ford and Chevrolet engines were built in the UK by Cosworth and Ilmor, respectively.

A Ford engine block Cosworth DFV on a Equipe Ligier | Ligier JS11

Cosworth was initially an independent company, later becoming part of United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) and subsequently Vickers, but also had a long association with Ford Motor Company and was a subsidiary of Ford between 1998 and 2004.

In 2004, Cosworth and Pi Research were sold by Ford to the current Cosworth Group owned by Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven.

In 1998, Vickers sold Cosworth and Pi Research to Ford.

In September, 2004 Ford announced that it was selling Cosworth and Pi Research, along with Cosworth Racing Ltd and its Jaguar Formula One team.

Cosworth received the order along with the £ 100, 000 that Ford felt it adequate to spend on such an objective.

A later version of the YB engine was used in the Ford Escort RS Cosworth | Escort RS Cosworth