Fast Ford – September 2019

SAPPHIRE COSWORTH

You can’t really call a Sapphire RS Cosworth a sleeper

• but you might not expect Andrew Cross’s

subtly styled executive saloon to be packing

such mighty horsepower. That big ol’

Borg Warner has a lot to answer for...

Words DAN BEVIS / Photos ADE BRANNAN

I

t only takes one out-of-place

anachronism to ensure

amusing double-takes and

perplexed discussions aplenty.

Look at the film Robin Hood: Prince of

Thieves, set in the year 1194, in which they

use a refracting telescope that wouldn’t

have been invented until the early 1600s. In

the movie Glory, set during the US civil war,

you can clearly see an extra wearing a digital

watch. The Pirates of the Caribbean series

seems to have an issue with correctly dating

fruit, featuring Granny Smith apples and

sweet bananas that wouldn’t have existed in

the 1740s. There are countless examples of

this – the point is that if something jarringly

new appears out of context, you have to rub

your eyes and take a second look, just to

ensure that you really are seeing what you

think you are. The same is the case with this

Sapphire RS Cosworth’s engine bay. At

EXECUTIVE

DECISIONS

SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DѲȭ

You can’t really call a Sapphire RS Cosworth a sleeper

• but you might not expect Andrew Cross’s

subtly styled executive saloon to be packing

such mighty horsepower. That big ol’

Borg Warner has a lot to answer for...

Words DAN BEVIS / Photos ADE BRANNAN

I

t only takes one out-of-place

anachronism to ensure

amusing double-takes and

perplexed discussions aplenty.

Look at the film Robin Hood: Prince of

Thieves, set in the year 1194, in which they

use a refracting telescope that wouldn’t

have been invented until the early 1600s. In

the movie Glory, set during the US civil war,

you can clearly see an extra wearing a digital

watch. The Pirates of the Caribbean series

seems to have an issue with correctly dating

fruit, featuring Granny Smith apples and

sweet bananas that wouldn’t have existed in

the 1740s. There are countless examples of

this – the point is that if something jarringly

new appears out of context, you have to rub

your eyes and take a second look, just to

ensure that you really are seeing what you

think you are. The same is the case with this

Sapphire RS Cosworth’s engine bay. At

EXECUTIVE

DECISIONS

SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DѲȭ