The Future: Cosworth here, Cosworth now

Cosworth recently teamed up with Gordon Murray Automotive to develop a naturally aspirated, 3.9-litre V12 engine to power the GMA T.50 supercar, which will be the first ever GMA vehicle ever to go into production.  In case you didn’t know, Gordon Murray was the South African-born British designer who developed the fetish object that is […]

Fistful: Cosworth rarities

It’s sixty two years now since Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth launched Cosworth Engineering in a greasy corner of London. Since then the engineering firm has provided the connective tissue of some of the world’s finest and most winning sports cars the world has ever known – and has collaborated with a wealth of mainstream […]

Cosworth DFV

“Well, the thing that’s impressive apart from anything else in an engine is that each individual cylinder manages to go ‘suck, squeeze, bang, blow’ 92 times per second. The sparks required at 11,000rpm are 733 per second. The piston weighs five and a quarter tons at 11,000rpm…” explains the Cosworth DFV’s Chief Engineer Keith Duckworth […]

Cosworth at 60

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In 2018, Cosworth turns 60. In celebration, Influx was granted behind-the-scenes access at the company’s engineering base in Northampton, England, to meet some of the men and women who make Cosworth what it is today – and what it will be tomorrow.

Ford Escort RS Cosworth: meeting a childhood hero

Cosworth in storage

Fast Ford hysteria has hit cataclysmic heights in recent years. The latest Focus RS was launched, instantly becoming the world’s favourite hot hatch and trumping all of its – much pricier – German rivals for both pace and driving pleasure. The Mustang has finally arrived in the UK, triggering off-the-scale order numbers. And, at the […]

Ford Focus RS500 Cosworth

An electric blue badge burning with neon intensity against a dark background-matte black- like a stealth bomber. That’s what first hits me in the hard morning light at the Ford Heritage Centre whilst signing the release forms for the Focus RS 500. That and the space it takes up. The large volume of air it […]