Ford RS200 Rally Car '86

The Ford RS200 Rally Car '86 is a road car produced by Ford. It only appears in Gran Turismo 2, and has been replaced by it's more accurate race-going version, the Ford RS200 Rally Car '85.
==Colors==
There are just two colors available for this vehicle, they are unnamed in the games:
* White 
* Red
==In-game description==
The mid-1980s was not only a boom time for the stockmarket, but for rallying. The homologation-special Group B cars were kings of the forests and Ford just had to have one of its own. Enter the RS200. This lightweight mid-engined supercar was designed with one purpose in mind - to blitz the successful Lancia Delta S4s and Peugeot 205 T16s in the World Rally Championship. To comply with regulations 200 would have to be made, about half of which had to be for road use. Ford not only enlisted its greatest rally engineers to work on the RS200 but also Formula One expertise from Jackie Stewart and engine-designer Brian Hart.
The centrepiece of the RS200 was its 1.8-litre turbo 16-valve BDT engine. In road trim it mustered 250bhp, but for rallying this was hiked to some 450bhp. The mid-engined RS200 had four-wheel drive - split 37 per cent to the front and 63 per cent to the rear on road cars, but with a manual split and differential locks for the rally car. A five-speed manual gearbox was fitted to both road and rally versions and the all-round independent suspension was multi-adjustable. Road cars wore 16-inch Speedline alloy wheels and 225/50VR16 Pirelli P700 tyres while rally versions wore whatever the stage suited. Brakes were big vented discs all round. Clothing the lightweight composite/aluminium honeycomb chassis was a stunning glass-fibre body designed by Italian styling house Ghia. The RS200 was easily the prettiest of the Group B monsters. On its World Championship debut at the 1986 Swedish Rally the RS200 came third with Kalle Grundel at the helm. Sadly the death of Henri Toivonen in a Lancia and a horrific accident involving spectators in Portugal that year spelled an end to the Group B cars and the RS200 never got to show its true potential.
==Acquisition==
==Trivia==
*In NTSC version of GT2, the description text mentions the Ford Escort RS1600 and RS2000, none of which have yet to appear in a Gran Turismo game.
**However, in the demo versions of the game, there is a entry for Ford ESCORT RS2000, with the internal name of efe2n, which would be used for the RS200 in GT2.
*The model in this game seems to be a mix of a race-trim engine in a road-car body. This was later rectified and split into the proper road car and rally versions.
==Pictures==
File:Efe2nl--.png|The vehicle banner as it appears in Gran Turismo 2.
==References==
Category:GT2 Cars
Category:Ford Cars
Category:Cars accepting dirt and snow tyres
Category:1980s automobiles
Category:Coupes
Category:Turbocharged Cars