Full-time four-wheel drive transformed road cars in the
nineteen-eighties, adding speed, excitement and safety and the
Ferguson Formula was at the heart of that revolution. Though the
Audi quattro made the world sit up and take notice of full-time
four-wheel drive, its technology was not available to any other
maker and indeed Audi came to adopt Ferguson technology in their
next generation of quattro models. Full-time four-wheel drive was
the dream of racing driver Fred Dixon, to make cars safer on the
road. Harry Ferguson, of tractor-making fame, backed the idea and,
under the control of Le Mans winner Tony Rolt the talented
engineering team built some astonishing cars, sometimes behind the
scenes and in secrecy. Traction for Sale is the story of two
companies; Harry Ferguson Research, which did all the backbreaking
development work and FF Developments, who succeeded in delivering
the technology to the world's car makers. In telling the story of
the Ferguson Formula, the book brings life some of the most
remarkable cars of the '60s, '70s and '80s, from the Jensen FF, the
first car in the world with full-time, automatic four-wheel drive,
through the development vehicles like the Ford Zephyr V6 and Ford
Mustang 4x4, the Capri 4x4 and the British Army's top-secret Opel
Senators, to competition cars like the astonishing Lotus 56 turbine
Indy and F1 cars, rally cars like the Ford RS200, MG Metro 6R4 and
Lancia Delta Integrale and on to production cars like the legendary
Sierra XR4x4 and Escort Cosworth Turbo and the original Volvo XC90.
This book is indispensable reading for all Ford and Jensen
enthusiasts, students of the British motor industry and anyone
interested in 80s-era 4x4 road and rally cars.
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