The Ford C100 is a sports racing car, initially built and run as a Group 6 car, but later as a Group C car. The C100 was built by Ford in 1981, and initially featured a 4-litre Cosworth DFL V8 engine, which was replaced by a 3.3-litre version of the same engine in 1983, after the car had passed to private hands. Five cars are known to have been built. Although the cars were often very quick in qualifying, reliability problems plagued them, and restricted their successes to two Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft victories in 1982, and a single Thundersports victory in 1983.
Ford C100
An early C100 on display
Group C was a category of sports car racing introduced by the FIA in 1982 and continuing until 1993, with Group A for touring cars and Group B for GTs.
A sticker on a race car from the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans, denoting the car is part of the Group C category.
The Porsche 956 was a dominant car in its many factory and customer built forms in the early 1980s.
Jaguar XJR-8 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2008.