LAST EVER Ford Mondeo V6 BTCC Built! 

90’s touring cars 👌🏼

This maybe the last ARE built Mondeo, but this is far from the last Mondeo V6 in the BTCC. West Surrey racing picked up where ARE left and raced the facelifted Mondeo. Prodrive then inherited the program later on, still with the V6.

Beautiful! The super tourers are such an amazing era of motorsports.

Love the super tourers for how they optimised the factory stuff and hung the engines so low and far back. I think the os driveshaft goes through the v of the engine on these!

Love that mondeo and those wheels would love a set of those in a road fitment (4/5 stud) which I don't think you can get or they ever made could be wrong but type of wheel that suits any car I think. Keep the touring videos coming would like to see the Laguna, Peugeot 405/406 any tourer really. It's so interesting the engineering and design behind them. 👍🏻

Technically not the last v6 Mondeo touring car as they used the MK2 mondeo for BTCC and that was also V6

Absolutely amazing you covering this! All these years just looking at photo's and specs wasn't enough.

Thank you for all your touring car videos ❤I have wanted to see close up videos like this since I first went on internet! 😅

You have come a long way over the decades mate.. Wish you all the luck in the world.... Never thought id be watching you on YT haha.. Your content is bang on mate. I enjoy watching ...

BTCC was the best. Everyone wanted there dads cars, 406, mondeo, vectra etc to look like them beasts!! Good times.

Didn't the audi quattro have the alternator on the gearbox as well so it didn't rob the engine power

i was working for a main ford dealers back in the day and every week i went into andy rouse place in coventry had a coffee and watched these being built , ps its not the last built andy built some left hand drive for dtm , then west surry racing took over building the mondeo s

those look like early 90´s proflex shocks. never knew they did racing shocks.

Great video and good commentary by yourself. I did laugh when you said "stop - Start straight".

The best looking touring car from Ford

Last Mondeo built by legendary Ford racer Andy Rouse Engineering, and the last saloon Mk1 Mondeo to be built for the BTCC, since in 1996, West Surrey Racing took over the project, and they decided to run the Mk1 hatchback Mondeo in the BTCC, and 1996 was the worst year for the Mondeo in the BTCC, they were built by Schubel Engineering in Germany, and were finished very close to the season opener, so an underdeveloped and undertested car ran in the 1996 BTCC, whit a big lack of speed and reliability problems to boot. In 1997 and 1998, the facelifted Mk2 Mondeos were used by West Surrey Racing, this time built by Reynard, and 1997 was another dissapointing year for Ford in the BTCC, and leading driver Paul Radisich left Ford in the end of 97, for a very poor 1998 season in a Peugeot sadly, in 1998, the late Will Hoy did win a wet race at Silverstone, it was the first win for the Mondeo in the BTCC since Kelvin Burt won at Snetterton in 1995 in a Mk1 Saloon Mondeo, just like the one in this video. In the end of 1998 Ford hired legendary firm Prodrive to run the BTCC Mondeos in 1999 and 2000, and things improved alot, since the 1999 Mondeos were a massive improvement over the earlier versions, but sadly, in 1999 it was again let down by a lack of power and reliability from the 2 liter naturally aspirated Mazda KL derived V6 engine, with around 300 + hp and a revlimit of 8500 rpm ( super touring car requirement ) so in 2000, Prodrive took their engine development inhouse, and it make a big difference, since in 2000, they were outstanding, and the Mondeo sounded fantastic as well, this year, and they took all 3 places in the point standings this year, with Alain Menu being the champion, ( The 3 remaining factory teams all ran 3 cars in 2000 to make up for the drop out of several makes after 1999 ( Volvo Nissan and Renault, due to the very high cost of developing and running these mega machines ) in 2001 Super touring was replaced by the new BTC rules, which was cheaper and simpler, and attracted new makes as well, like MG and Proton. In the ETCC Super touring cars run untill the end of 2001, when the new Super 2000 rules replaced them. In Sweden, Super touring was replaced in 2003 by the Super 2000 rules.

Great videos asall ways thanks for up loads mate.

Stunning car

You truly are a vauhall fan😂... at 1.40 lol you say "vauhall wanted to keep running the v6" hahah

Superb filming of all the parts on the car. Some others talk about it whilst facing the camera at them. Subbed !

Remember Nigel Mansell wrecking one of these

Cracking videos mate keep them coming 👍🏻

Alternator on drive shaft is a common mod. Easier engine packaging. You'll gain one or HP Alternator can easily be slowed down if necessary.

Clearly rubs on full lock........tbh no surprises from this era 👍👍👍👍

I have a l4 that came in the scorpio its 2.3 supposedly if the mk5 rs2000 head is fitted compression goes to 1:11 i also have hilift cams does anyone know if this is worth doing

The last Rouse cars, not the last V6 Mondeo. You are factually incorrect on a number of points. I was race engineer on these for 5 years.

ARE lost the contact for the mondeo to WSR I don’t believe it had anything to do with wanting to run a 4pot. Yes Rouse believed that route was likely a better package but there was benefits from the v6 too. Ford decided on the v6 route here, not forgetting this is well into Mondeo competition. ARE already developed the original Mondeo BTCC cars & this was the aero super touring car era . ARE loosing the Ford contract was more the management looking after their own IMO however that’s another story. Last Mondeo BTCC car built by ARE not the last Mondeo built for BTCC. At the time the Ford 2ltr 16v zetec had a very small close valve area which is obviously not ideal. ARE took the Mazda produced 2.5v6 & destroked it to 2ltr’s & got the project going until Cosworth Technology started the engine project & supply. Owner CNC AS is the man who knows this car in & out as he built in period @ARE. Great car proper BTCC super tourer & shame current crop are not as these cars where because the BTCC hit its high point in that era & now far from the exciting days of the BTCC. Andy Rouse proper engineer, old school extremely clever talented individual. Remember a topic on who was best driver in that era & Rouse v Soper was the final. No disrespect to Soper here but he doesn’t even get close to Rouse! Most if not all where arrive & drive guys, Rouse was engineer, team owner, boss, driver all rolled into 1 & he was hands on too he knew EVERYTHING about his cars because he built them. Build develop set them up, probably mapped on his own engine dyno’s (be it Cosworth did later engine) support & race. Good to see the old Zytek ignition fuel adjustments. Think of Ford in BTCC & ARE Rouse Sport was the combination for me, shame it didn’t carry on. He stands alone as Mr BTCC IMO & will never see another like him.

Very cool 😎

I'd gues the alternator being driven off the driveshaft would either be because of space being an issue or probably because it wont be taking power through drag coming directly off the engine. As the car is not sitting idling for long the battery will have enough charge until the car strats moving.

Fantastic car, have loved touring car racing for years. My son's even more enthusiastic than me, despite being only 24, he obviously didn't get to witness trackside the 90's touring cars (aka very expensive banger racing which basically it was!!) Also where we live there used to be race team on a nearby trading estate. When the race team had left and the old unit was being cleared my son was helping his cousin to clear it. In a corner of the yard sat a ford mondeo touring car bumper with EXACTLY the same livery as this car. This bumper, rather than ending its time in a skip now sits in our garden shed, We're not to sure what we're going to do with it or if it's worth anything, especially considering how much damaged panels go for at btcc meetings. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

VERY NICE. 👍👍 ANY UPDATES ON THE XR4I..?

Love it so much however I do prefer the mk2 super tourers mondeo, which is still btcc however, still amazing sound and amazing to look at

Mansell won in a mondeo in the rain!

I didn't know Michael Bisping did car reviews!

Is it a Mk1 wold love to build one with a cosworth v6 and rwd

Whats the brake horse?

I miss those opulent motorsports days 😭😲🤣💪💪

I wonder why vaxhaull wanted to push the v6 ???🤔 " I'm a FORD bloke mate " I could lick that car 4 ever 😝😝😝😝😍😍😍😍

Why is it when a race car is started up they rev them like that? Is it better than leaving the engine to just idle

Proper!😀

Last mk1 ? deffo not the last v6 BTCC mondeo built.....

How much bhp?

The v6 is a 2 litre. Did you mean a 2 litre 4 cylinder?

Definitely not the last v6 mondeo EVER BUIT.

now that's just pron for some people...

Wheels rubbing like a bored housewife