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摘要

This is a 900bhp Escort Cosworth. Except it's not, because it's powered by a five cylinder Audi engine connected to a Skyline gearbox with a rear subframe from a Nissan S14. Oh yeah, it also has electronically adjustable four-wheel drive... This Escort Cosworth, if you can call it that, is what marketing people would call 'a game changer'. Now, this is a phrase that tends to get casually tossed about when someone does something just a teeny weeny bit different and people, who want you to think that that something is actually a lot more exciting than it really is, will call it 'a game changer' in the hope that it will grab your attention and make you all giddy. Well, this is more than just a bit different; this is a car that completely and utterly redefines what is possible with the Escort Cosworth and even if it has done so by removing almost all of the Cosworth DNA, which we know is going to upset quite a few purists reading this, the finished article is so spectacular, so face-meltingly well engineered that anyone who dismisses it for being 'not a proper Cossie' needs to go and sit in the corner and have a quite word with themselves. This is proper alright, and it's all down to the skill, determination and downright bloody-mindedness of its genius owner, Joakim Stigenburg.