Early life
Mansfield belonged to the 750 Motor Club.
John Roderick Ward Mansfield (born 29 May 1934) [1] is a British engineer and business executive, influencing British motorsport, and ultimately many British boy racers .
Mansfield belonged to the 750 Motor Club.
He created the Special Vehicle Engineering (SVE) department at the Dunton Technical Centre in Essex in 1980, [2] and ran it until 1990. It produced the more-powerful roadworthy versions of the Ford Sierra. [3]
Dieter Hahne took over the department in January 1991; he had been manager of the Medium Cars programme for Ford. [4]
Mansfield became Managing Director of Lotus Cars on 14 August 1995, when Lotus was owned by Bugatti, who had bought the company from General Motors in 1993. [5] He left Lotus in February 1996. [6] Group Lotus employed around 900 people at its Norfolk factory.
Mansfield lives in Little Burstead in Essex. He married Valerie Jones in 1958 in Surrey.
