Ricardo PLC is a company that often gets ignored by the casual four-wheeled enthusiast. Headquartered in a West Sussex coastal town, the British outfit was contracted by the Ford Motor Company to ...

These days we're surrounded by mega-buck high-end builds, so it becomes easy to forget that the essence of hot-rodding is going fast on the cheap. Yeah, we can appreciate the big-money builds, but for ...

Ford tried hard to create the world car, one it would be able to sell in all major global markets. It did this variously over the decades with Escort, Focus, Contour/Mondeo, and even the dinky Fiesta.