Ford Puma Rally Driving Experiences

The Ford Puma was a unique compact sports car when it was launched in 1997. Produced exclusively at their plant in Cologne, Germany, for the European market, they are front engined, front wheel drive situated cars - which just so happens to make them ideal for rally driving.

It was in fact the British Ford Rally team at Boreham in Essex who helped create its rally incarnation, the Ford Puma Rally, with conversions being carried out at Tickford’s base in Daventry, Northamptonshire. So what you have with the Puma Rally is a European car with very British motor sporting prowess.

There’s some seriously heavy throttle and force to handle when you take to the dirt and mud track in this little hot runner. Powered on a 1.7 litre engine pumping 123 bhp, it roars from 0 - 60 mph in just under 8 seconds, with a top speed possible of 126 mph, making it an ideal car to book for our range of Rally driving experience packages we offer at venues nationwide with TrackDays.

Interestingly, despite the fact that 1000 limited models of the Ford Puma Rally were set to be built - 500 were scheduled to be sold in Germany, with the other 500 here in the UK - only the UK quotient of cars were produced and sold, making this a very rare find for rally driving enthusiasts, meaning its lack of demand at the time has increased its value further.

The Puma Rally has also had some superb racing pedigree in rally driving. In 2008, Luke Pinder drove a Ford Puma Rally in the R2 Class of the British Rally Championship. The BBC motoring show Top Gear also awarded the standard Ford Puma road car as their Car of the Year in 1997.