In 2019, I bought one of the last Alfasuds, made in South Africa. It spent most of it’s life in the Kalahari Desert. The last Suds here had an overdrive 5th, but mine has close ratio, and a Ti engine in a saloon. Half the weight and half the power of a modern hot hatch, the look on a 2017 Golf GTi driver’s face 10 miles later was a picture! 😂
My first car was an Alfasud 1.5 Superhatch, I got it with a blown engine, found a mechanic in Bedfordview that had a race car motor on one side from a car that had a nasty rear ender on the track, he fitted it to mine and I regularly gave a buddy of mine with a Golf CTi a good hiding on the highway between Benoni and Boksburg...I really miss that little Bull Terrier of a car...
@@ca9968 they are so much fun. it took me 25 years to find one again, and because it spent 32 years In Oudtshoorn, it is very rust free. But..I have a theory the whole car was pressed from local steel due to local content rules. Certainly the floor pan was. But then, they were apparently painted better than Mercedes out there. Why not recreate your youth? Find one. I know 2 people out there with 5 Suds each 😂
I remember when these Sierras first came onto the market, the motors from the US were "detuned for emission control" once they hit these shores they were tweaked for maximum power!
Fantastic car. As with most who are viewing this video I'd never heard of this Sierra until stumbling upon your channel. It's amazing how Ford shoe-horned the Windsor into that small engine bay. It would have been warmly welcomed in Australia had it been available as Ford here stupidly ceased V8 production for most of the eighties. Great video sir.
Ford build 255 xr8 there were 5 prototypes the 1st car was a automatic the two prototype cars is still in posession of the owner of koekenaap garage in the western cape.
I have one of these in essex in the uk and there was another one local to me, also one up near Birmingham, don't know if either are still owned by rhe same people
I remember this car coming out in the 80’s. At that time it was the fastest production Ford in the world at just over R30,000 brand new. I was very disappointed not to see one Ford Sierra in the Ford museum in Detroit Michigan. . To me the most successful Ford in racing. ruclips.net/video/srZrC98E0W4/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Except the car and ford in general have nothing to do with south africa ford even created samcor which is now defunct.. I'm sure you are aware that ford builds cars in many countries.
The soundtrack definitely makes it stand out from the Sierra Cosworth. Loved the Cosworths when they were racing in Australia.
In 2019, I bought one of the last Alfasuds, made in South Africa. It spent most of it’s life in the Kalahari Desert. The last Suds here had an overdrive 5th, but mine has close ratio, and a Ti engine in a saloon. Half the weight and half the power of a modern hot hatch, the look on a 2017 Golf GTi driver’s face 10 miles later was a picture! 😂
My first car was an Alfasud 1.5 Superhatch, I got it with a blown engine, found a mechanic in Bedfordview that had a race car motor on one side from a car that had a nasty rear ender on the track, he fitted it to mine and I regularly gave a buddy of mine with a Golf CTi a good hiding on the highway between Benoni and Boksburg...I really miss that little Bull Terrier of a car...
@@ca9968 they are so much fun. it took me 25 years to find one again, and because it spent 32 years In Oudtshoorn, it is very rust free. But..I have a theory the whole car was pressed from local steel due to local content rules. Certainly the floor pan was. But then, they were apparently painted better than Mercedes out there. Why not recreate your youth? Find one. I know 2 people out there with 5 Suds each 😂
my dad worked for Ford (then SAMCOR) in the 80s and 90s. I got to right in this car befor it was officially on the market.
I remember when these Sierras first came onto the market, the motors from the US were "detuned for emission control" once they hit these shores they were tweaked for maximum power!
Fantastic car. As with most who are viewing this video I'd never heard of this Sierra until stumbling upon your channel. It's amazing how Ford shoe-horned the Windsor into that small engine bay.
It would have been warmly welcomed in Australia had it been available as Ford here stupidly ceased V8 production for most of the eighties. Great video sir.
Ford build 255 xr8 there were 5 prototypes the 1st car was a automatic the two prototype cars is still in posession of the owner of koekenaap garage in the western cape.
we had the 3 door XR4i , with spoiler and a 2,8i 6cyl
I have one of these in essex in the uk and there was another one local to me, also one up near Birmingham, don't know if either are still owned by rhe same people
I’ve heard of the XR8… it’s practically a 4-door Foxbody!
And for me I thought I was tripping when I saw a foxbody for the first time.
Please also do a video of the 3.0iRS SAPPHIRE 3.0IRS WAS ALSO A VERY RSA EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION CAR.
BMW South Africa also had a e28 745i with the BMW M1 engine instead of the turbo used overseas. Basically the first supersaloon...
They did a lot of their own things... Land Rovers with BMW engines.... Sierra utes. VW flat 4 vans with golf motors ECT.....
@@danieltynan5301 Yuuuup...it was a crazy time
Beast! ❤
Ah, the good old glory days of Ford Muscle 💪
Love the Sierra, sadly in Argentina the most powerful version had an 2.3 liter 120hp...😢
Note that the XR8 was de-tuned......
I have only seen one in my whole life, and it had a coyote swap lol.
It had Ronal wbeelrims not Momo.....My XR8 was number 233 of 255 produced
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Can you please do a video about running cars on ammonia?
Ill look into it😁
I fail to see why the golf 1 was mentioned.
Does it matter? It's a little beast
I remember the Sierra when it came out , I knew it was a fast car but ,,,ugly. Great walk down memory lane.
I remember this car coming out in the 80’s. At that time it was the fastest production Ford in the world at just over R30,000 brand new. I was very disappointed not to see one Ford Sierra in the Ford museum in Detroit Michigan. . To me the most successful Ford in racing. ruclips.net/video/srZrC98E0W4/видео.htmlfeature=shared
This story is as South African as biltong and Bobotie.
Except the car and ford in general have nothing to do with south africa ford even created samcor which is now defunct..
I'm sure you are aware that ford builds cars in many countries.
Looks like a Dodge Lancer