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Originally Posted by VIVA GT
IIRC the engineer's name was Alan Wilkinson (?) who I think had some connection with Ford Motorsport.
Also IIRC, initially the car ran a strange sort of combined gearbox/rear axle (transaxle) with a strangely numerically low final drive ratio. Something to do with reducing frictional losses due to the mechanical gearing reduction.
I also seem to remember that this was the component that usually failed! Other (more conventially engineered) Sierra's didn't have these problems.
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that name definitely rings a bell- he was ex-Ford and Mitsubishi amongst others I think. I'm pretty sure you're right about the transaxle as well