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Inside DRVN design and the art of the Continumod

By 2025-01-23T17:36:00

Boreham Motorworks Ford Escort Mk1 RS_Badging_Ladnscape

Car Design News gets a behind-the-scenes tour of the Coventry studio and the design team led by Wayne Burgess 

There is some exciting work going on at the end of a quiet industrial estate in Coventry, but you’d never know it.

Tucked away beyond the nearby university campus is DRVN Group, by all measures a fully-fledged OEM operation that for years has been an integral provider of engineering and design services to some of the biggest car brands in the world. The thing is, you’d only be aware of that if you were in the biz.

Boreham Motorworks Ford Escort Mk1 RS_Side_Landscape

Boreham Motorworks’ Ford Escort Mk1 RS

From bespoke parts for Aston Martin and Bentley to close involvement with leading motorsport teams, DRVN has operated mainly behind closed doors. Media activity has not always been a priority, but interest has surged following a recent partnership with Ford Motor Company to reproduce some of the Blue Oval’s most iconic heros from the ground up. The term Continumod has even been trademarked to set itself apart from the restomod crowd. Not with malice (indeed, some key members of the team come from the restomod world) but to underline that DRVN is essentially a fully-fledged carmaker. 

Specifically, CDN was brought along to discuss the reproduction of a blueprint-accurate Ford Escort RS Mk1. Production will be…

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