5:38 That hesitation of how hard should I close this damn door, and then the sound of a jar of coins shattering =)) Priceless footage! Edit: 5:50 these quality door locks, I laghed my ass off
Just checked the car details on GOV UK. Both the Mark 1 and 2 in this video are still taxed and on the road! The Mark 3 built 1972 has been untaxed since 2009. Mark 4 is also still on the road! The white Sierra is untaxed since 1999, the grey one untaxed since 2001. The white one at the garage is untaxed since 1999, the grey estate at the dealership untaxed since 2012, and the white one at the end untaxed since 2006.
I have owned a 1974 Mk.3.Cortina (over 44 years), now being restored to "Brand New" on my channel, it spent 12 years off the road stored in damp conditions and rust took hold everywhere, so needed a full shell rebuild, most said it was beyond saving, but after lots of new old stock panels, years of work, and thousands of pounds spent, the new 100% rust & filler free shell is now at the paint shop, if you like the Mk.3 you might find the work on mine interesting, as it is a very rare model, with fully traceable history right back to the factory production line, (one of Fords Press fleet promotional cars), and the only one that survives.
Respect to you sir! Most of us don't have the time or patience to finish such a job. Hope it all works out, its great that people like you exist to look after our fondly remembered old motors.
@@Runeakb The Mondeo had brake rotors/discs that would rust to the hub. Changing them was a nightmare. The headlights turned yellow on the mk1. You could however replace the glass lens inside them.
Wow, this really is from 1993. One of the clips shows a 1988 E reg Escort or Orion which reminds me of a car I used to own at the time. I was persuaded to drive a Sierra to Germany and back in 1993 fully loaded with 5 people and luggage. It was only upon returning that we found out the anti roll bar was broken. I wonder what Clarkson thinks when he looks at these old Top Gear’s and how they turned out in the end?
Oh, and for our UK viewers, we in America did experience this 1st generation (today's on its' 3rd one on both sides of the Atlantic) Mondeo, it was made and sold here as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique. Their biggest complaints were the too short (for almost any size adult) seat bottom and the "sticker shock" (big price increase) over its' American immediate predecessors, the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz.
Agreed if you can find a good one. The first good looking Mondeo came out in 2015. I didn't think my MK2 Mondeo was as nice to drive as any of my Sierras but it did handle better.
The chap saying about one of his customers has a car with 150,000 miles, how things have changed. My Peugeot 407 had 300,000 miles when i replaced it. Engine was still in great shape.
Having owned a Mk11 Mondeo for 10 years I can honestly say what a superb car it was to drive. Ultra reliable (1.8LX Petrol). I only parted with it as it had got to nearly 16 years old and it needed the front arm bushes doing (Again) and I had been offered a 2002 facelift focus at a very good price. Sadly worth very little in 2011 so it went for scrap. I paid £2900 for it in 2001 with 34k. Only cam belt and front arm bushes were the big bills.
I've never been a Ford lover..I've always found them boring and built to a price...However..I've owned a Mk1 Mondeo Diesel and years later a Mk something or other on a 54 plate..I bought them out of necessity because i needed a 'no brainer' car...Both of these were two of the best cars I've ever owned in terms of reliability and ease of ownership..They cost me a pittance to run and they never, ever let me down..EVER..the diesel had 259k on the clock when i sold it..it was really tatty when i sold it but it kept going..The second one still looked really clean.. I have a Ford Transit Connect Sport van as a second vehicle..Again, it is built to a budget, but i have to say, it is brilliant and so easy to own..That's the beauty of Ford..You can buy one and forget about it..I'll never be a 'fan' of the brand, but of the four i've owned, they've all been dirt cheap to run and proved to be very reliable.
Reading through comments it's nice to see my thoughts are echoed by many. It appears Ford across the pond was a decade behind the times until the mid 80's.
My work colleague in the early 1980's had Sierra as a company car, i drove it once. Massive under steer to the point of being scary. A mechanic told me they were't reliable cars, but cheap and easy to fix.
Says something about how unrefined cars were back in the day when even in the adverts you could hear the doors making a loud "CLONK" when you shut them.
I remember the mondeo release being a big deal in my house as my dad was gonna be getting one as a company car... even brand new it looked like a 20 year old heap of shit 😂
I loved the sierras but could never get into the Mondeos, the new 2015 on models are the first ones to get my attention. The Mondeos did solve the rust problem, I had an 8 year old 1.6 sierra with holes you could put you fist through on the rear arches and bits falling off the doors when you closed them. When I had an 8 year old Mondeo it didn't have a spot of rust on it.
@@DurkoppFordertechnic Most cars yes. But my 1994 Toyota Celica still looks beautiful today, 24 years later. Some cars are just that bit better than the rest. Mudanos on the other hand... Sticky tape holding the bumpers together was almost a factory standard.
I had 4 sierras 1 hatchback and 3 sapphires. Great cars. Never had any problems with any of them. Last one I had was a j reg a d I only sold it cos of the job I was doing and I was driving 25k a year. Sierra was a 1.8 and very thirsty. Still miss it though
Loved the part were he shuts the passenger door on the MK3 cortina and it looks like the hinge pins have already dropped, oh them good old two doors shuts with sounds of a empty biscuit tin.
I had a mk1 1.6 mondeo it was under powered and tired when got it with 78k on the clock there was a black hole in 4th gear and it used to cripple my right knee after long journeys but in 4 years it only let me down twice (battery and starter motor died) both avoidable and cheep to fix and for that i loved it and have many fond memories of it
@Smokeango no never had a Sierra but nearly bought one as my first car i test drove a couple but got a mk4 escort instead mainly for the insurance and better on fuel always liked the Sierra sapphire its the one I'd have given the choice
@Smokeango i agree that car was a bit special the mexico especially given the choice of any escort it would be a mk4 RS turbo it was a car i wanted most back in the day
Back in the day I had a mk1 Cortina GT, followed by a mk2 1600E , a mk 3 2000GT and finally a mk5 Crusader. These were all easy to live with but quick to rust and with fairly poor handling. The Sierra 2.0GLSI I had later was a much better car but it was the Mondeo that really stood out being a turning point for Ford Europe where they started producing great handling cars. Its easy to sneer nowadays at the dull looks of the early versions but later versions when fitted with one of the bigger engines were very capable cars.
They were really rated when new, much like the Focuses were when they came out. Fords before the Mondeo wre ecrtiicised for being very lacklustre dynamically, (not terrible, but just very average). Mondeo changed the game when it came out
PRODUCTION NOTE' The Red Mk.3 Ford Cortina "GXL" used in in this was Supplied to the BBC TOP GEAR team By Keith Macey (TV/Film Production Consultant) from the FORD CORTINA Mk.3. OWNERS REGISTER, from their cars available for TV/Film/and promotional work and also supplied the Daytona Yellow Crayford Mk.3 Cortina used in the Top Gear Magazine feature, for the BBC publication,
The Yellow GXL 2 door Ford used in the Advert was one of their per production cars, (note it has missing exterior trim, on petrol flap and gutter rails, with vinyl roof just hanging over the drip rail, so did not have the sound deadening pads fitted inside the door skins either!, thus the hollow sound) as they shut, funny how Ford made ads to show off their "NEW CARS" that were not in fully finished, as show here,and even damaged condition, as seen in another advert with the rear valance dented in!!!, I have owned a Mk.3. for over 43 years and the doors on mine sound a lot nicer when you shut them when Ford have fitted the sound absorbing pads!!! lol.
Sierra 2.3D, my dad bought it on aftermarket and he sold it when it had 650,000 km and engine was still in good shape, only exterior and interior did fade.
Strange to think that nowadays, hardly anyone buys a Mondeo and silly SUVs and "premium" German cars have taken over. Sierra/Mondeo man has become 320d man. How fashions change! I kinda miss the unpretentious functionality and character of cars like the Sierra. Modern cars are so over complicated!
I pretty much learned most of my car knowledge on fixing my step-Dad's Sierras in my teens. Have to say, these days I've gone "premium German" too, with Mercedes C-classes. The interesting thing is thy C-class is very similar to the Sierra (certainly the later Sierra Azure fuel-injected version) the only main difference being a OBD II code reader is needed.
It's because a Mondeo costs as much to fix as a BMW now and they look sh#t where the BMW doesn't. 2015 Mondeo looks good though so I might go back to Ford.
Clarkson's enunciation still had a slight pluminess to it back then. His market trader drawl hadnt quite been perfected at this stage and was still a 'work in progress'
Hello. Are there pistons with compression greater than 9.5 for a 1.4 engine? I want to put 100 octane gasoline. the goal is to choose economic consumption
it's cause ford wanted handling. and back in the days if oyu wanted handling you went for RWD. unless you were alfa romeo or honda. still the only real downside from RWD is a bit higher fuel consumption and its not very good in the snow unless its mid mounted.
i've always wondered why the Sierra was RWD, all of its competitors, the Cavalier, the Montego, and the 405 were FWD, even it's AMERICAN counterpart, the Taurus was FWD
It could be and this is just a guess. That they thought okay we are radically changing the shape, so let's go conservative with the drivetrain. British buyers were well known for being conservative back then. And the shape wasn't setting the world on fire with popularity at first
Did you ever have problems with the headlights going dull? Did the dash digital clock work especially it's backlight or the original radio backlight stop working too?
Jeremy I know you won’t believe me when I say this but one day you’re going to work for Amazon after you punched a producer for the bbc,rest assured you’ll still be loved
I had one of the last Cortina’s in 1982 it wasn’t a bad car for its day but it didn’t have electronic ignition so you were forever adjusting the circuit breaker but the most serious fault was the camshaft. Not the camshaft itself but poor lubrication. Mine failed through its inability to climb any hill. So I took the camshaft cover off and on starting the car I noticed that the lub pipe which ran along the camshaft was pumping oil over the top of the cam shaft and that was in tick over! Oil was going nowhere near the cams! It was out of warranty unfortunately and the Main Dealer didn’t want to know. After that I completely lost faith with the standard of Ford engineering. But I subsequently In the 1980’s had a Mondeo as a company car in maroon, it was quite a good car surprisingly good, but the standard of the paintwork was very poor I would rare similar to BMC Marina of the 1970’s. Never had a Ford since, never will! I’ve moved up to BMW!
Ah, the Mondeo, a British institution. Rolled onto the screen at 1:13 to Elgar's "Nimrod", a classic piece of rousing Brittania written by one of the best British composers. And then we're introduced to a car which was built in Belgium by the German arm of an American company. About as British as Sauerbrauten, followed by Mattentaart and washed down with a pint of Budweiser...
Despite some people's attempts to convince us otherwise, RWD isn't an instant passport to driving nirvana. The vast majority of the time, it makes no practical difference in everyday diving. It isn't intrinsically 'better'. Once upon a time all cars were RWD, even the most mundane, but it didn't make them all exciting supercars. They can be fun, but for every benefit, there's downside.
Having driven a Mk4 Cortina 78 or 79? and a 1991 Sierra 2.0 GLX, countless Mk2/3/4 Mondeo's and owning a Telstar TX5, I can sense and feel where Ford were going in terms of R&D and driving dynamics across the different years. I can see where they were going with the Mondeo - a midsize Ford which will become a global platform, although for me it was the mk3 Mondeo ST V6 2.5) where Ford had it together, I just didn't like the feel and dynamics of the first 2 generations. Global Ford offerings in the mid 1980's you had from Asia the Telstar (FWD) Europe has the Sierra (RWD), America has the Taurus (FWD). They have their own models, trims etc. Jump ahead a few years to the early 90's and midsize segment is going to FWD. The Sierra is being phased out. Telstar is still in production (Until 1999). America gains the Contour (FWD) Which will become the Fusion to the midsize line up - which looks ALOT like the Mondeo. Now look at them - they are extremely similar in appearance and in spec. Taurus is still in production as a fullsize platform after the end of the Crown Vic. Ford Australia discontinued the Falcon, their fullsize car. Guess whats there instead? Mondeo. Not a bad car by any means. In terms of business I understand - one global offering. As a consumer it kinda sucks my choice is limited, what if I want RWD and V8? No Falcon. No Crown Vic/Marquis etc. And its not just Ford doing this, its GM too and others starting to follow suit.
The Mk 1 Cortina to give it it's full title was known as the Ford Consul Cortina. All the subsequent marks of Cortina were just known as Ford Cortinas.
Parents had one of the first 1.6L Sierras. It was the most unreliable cars they had up to that point and the doors were rotten after 4 years. They had three R21s after that, that proved spacious, great to drive, reliable and after the first R21 died being side swiped by an Astra at 40mph, safe.
Martin Jones my parents had one too! My dad drove it a least 10 years and did big mileage. The most reliable car they ever had and never welded. Many happy memories.
About classic ford cortina is one of special and successful car in the world, since from mk-1 corporation with lotus created hi-performance sport car, light weight, hi-performance engine, driving real handling and easy control after mk-2 once again cortina to be luxury sedans, comfortable, luxury, hi-quality products ! In 70's mk-3 coke cola bottle body design have more engine to choose from line-4 ohv to v-6 ohc engine, more powerful, more stylish at mk-5 cortina back in modern family sedan and sedan wagon again, reliable, comfortable, for every family daily to drive Until in 82 ford created new generation family car have brand new featuring design most by the bodywork body line very smooth and good looking But new generation ford Sierra mk-1 engine 1.6L~2.0L line-4 ohc engine only can tell is smoothly not hi-performance and quality ! But by that engine running real smoothly in fuel economy control is good, more better early old cortina mk-2 to mk-5 ohc engine until new sierra mk-3 in 90's choose brand new DOHC twin cam line-4 engine and more better fuel injection system making engine keep hi-quality fuel economy control in the same time have more horsepower,making engine have more hi-performance ! But real sad is ford in same time stop created new XR no more 2.3L & 2.8L v-6 engine in brand new sierra, even since after ford granada, capri and scorpion stop production after Europe ford no more highest level hi-performance sport car and luxury sedan By now ford mondeo metrostar taking old granada his place About "sport" in Europe ford may be by now is ford focus ST / RS !
Now in 2020 (in lockdown in Melbourne) & looking back at the British auto industry, I scratch my head & ....... think. Why? Cars overall are really better nowadays. Panels fit. You don't screw nuts up like the Charlie Drake type in the Ford Dealership. All told. Ford existed and at times even thrived. It was just a good thing not to let the public know. Of course, Ford Globally is rather better, but it's still rather less than the sum of its parts. I still like stuff built sometime somewhere in the USA (or pretend to). When I worked in Kentucky, my (Ford) MercuryGrandMarquisBrogham had a 8litre V8 & was 19feet long, but again, build was really very good and even in the seventies it had climate control auto trans, auto light covers, & other stuff - you name it, complete with auto seats & as for the kids, we lost 'em in the back. And as for all Fords made anywhere on Earth, better left unsaid as to what they routinely produce over the years. Yet ford has improved, at least somewhat. Now zeeGermans rule the rich (&or snobs) and Japan thinks it's tops with Toyota and such, so, soon we'll just have to see the South Korean Moon rising, to show everyone how to do car making, and proper(ly)..
The first Sierras were terrible to drive, that's why the Cavalier had a free run. Ford saved themselves a tiny amount of money per car with penny-pinching false economies. When they sorted out the driving vagueness it was a decent car. Terrible nylon upholstery though. It looked knackered within a year.
@@paulgraham4567 it's the DVLA online vehicle enquiry service; you just type the reg in. H726BRV blue 1.8 petrol August 1990: untaxed. Tax due 1st of October 2000. No MOT details held. Logbook last issued 26th of January 2000. H725KOV blue 1.8 petrol August 1990: untaxed. Tax due 1st of August 2002. No MOT details held. Logbook last issued 4th of November 2002. As they actually came up, rather than "vehicle details could not be found", technically they shouldn't have been scrapped or changed to privately registered etc. My family have had a car in a garage since 1998 and it still comes up, saying that it's been untaxed and that the tax expired in March 1999 and that the logbook was last issued in September 1997.
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I miss the days of Quentin. I always liked his style
they knew how to do it in those days feed him first
Lmao best comment ever.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I just hope to God, the chips were hot enough!
Lol ! So true! 👍
take me some 2 seconds to get this "joke" 😮😮 true reality
Nice one Brian !
5:55 She's just pleased the seat folds down for a good ride :D
i had lots of those, lol
Lol 🤣
5:38 That hesitation of how hard should I close this damn door, and then the sound of a jar of coins shattering =)) Priceless footage! Edit: 5:50 these quality door locks, I laghed my ass off
Ford Sierra 👍 The Mondeo could never be as good as the Sierra was
Both are good cars for different reasons. You can't really compare the two imo
Just checked the car details on GOV UK. Both the Mark 1 and 2 in this video are still taxed and on the road! The Mark 3 built 1972 has been untaxed since 2009. Mark 4 is also still on the road! The white Sierra is untaxed since 1999, the grey one untaxed since 2001. The white one at the garage is untaxed since 1999, the grey estate at the dealership untaxed since 2012, and the white one at the end untaxed since 2006.
That old commercial was really cool! :)
I have owned a 1974 Mk.3.Cortina (over 44 years), now being restored to "Brand New" on my channel, it spent 12 years off the road stored in damp conditions and rust took hold everywhere, so needed a full shell rebuild, most said it was beyond saving, but after lots of new old stock panels, years of work, and thousands of pounds spent, the new 100% rust & filler free shell is now at the paint shop, if you like the Mk.3 you might find the work on mine interesting, as it is a very rare model, with fully traceable history right back to the factory production line, (one of Fords Press fleet promotional cars), and the only one that survives.
Respect to you sir! Most of us don't have the time or patience to finish such a job. Hope it all works out, its great that people like you exist to look after our fondly remembered old motors.
she only knows its a really smooth sophisticated ride
That mondeo looked worn out even when it was new!!
Could of cleaned it😂
When the Sierra finally was a good car, they stopped making it. And made the horrible car that is Mondeo mk1-3 :S
Danish police had many problems with its Mondeos. The brakes were underdimensioned and the headlights were too dimm.
@@Runeakb The Mondeo had brake rotors/discs that would rust to the hub. Changing them was a nightmare. The headlights turned yellow on the mk1. You could however replace the glass lens inside them.
:-)
Wow, this really is from 1993. One of the clips shows a 1988 E reg Escort or Orion which reminds me of a car I used to own at the time. I was persuaded to drive a Sierra to Germany and back in 1993 fully loaded with 5 people and luggage. It was only upon returning that we found out the anti roll bar was broken. I wonder what Clarkson thinks when he looks at these old Top Gear’s and how they turned out in the end?
Oh, and for our UK viewers, we in America did experience this 1st generation (today's on its' 3rd one on both sides of the Atlantic) Mondeo, it was made and sold here as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique.
Their biggest complaints were the too short (for almost any size adult) seat bottom and the "sticker shock" (big price increase) over its' American immediate predecessors, the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz.
and the cortina too
And let's not forget the XR4Ti...
A nation of burger munchers so no surprise it was to small
That poor lady at the start spent such a long time wrapping those chips... for Jeremy to instantly unwrap them.
I thought it was Susan Boyle
The mondeo dated quicker than the sierra also the sierra still looks good today
Lol Sierra looks good today. Ok then Biggles!!!
Sierra looking good? You need to give Specsavers a visit
Agreed if you can find a good one. The first good looking Mondeo came out in 2015.
I didn't think my MK2 Mondeo was as nice to drive as any of my Sierras but it did handle better.
@@johndavies3969 The Sierra does look good today, I saw one for sale at a garage recently amongst a bunch crappy modern eco bubbles, much nicer!
Agreed!
The chap saying about one of his customers has a car with 150,000 miles, how things have changed. My Peugeot 407 had 300,000 miles when i replaced it. Engine was still in great shape.
I was expecting James May at the wheel of the Cortina ;)
Having owned a Mk11 Mondeo for 10 years I can honestly say what a superb car it was to drive. Ultra reliable (1.8LX Petrol). I only parted with it as it had got to nearly 16 years old and it needed the front arm bushes doing (Again) and I had been offered a 2002 facelift focus at a very good price. Sadly worth very little in 2011 so it went for scrap. I paid £2900 for it in 2001 with 34k. Only cam belt and front arm bushes were the big bills.
I've never been a Ford lover..I've always found them boring and built to a price...However..I've owned a Mk1 Mondeo Diesel and years later a Mk something or other on a 54 plate..I bought them out of necessity because i needed a 'no brainer' car...Both of these were two of the best cars I've ever owned in terms of reliability and ease of ownership..They cost me a pittance to run and they never, ever let me down..EVER..the diesel had 259k on the clock when i sold it..it was really tatty when i sold it but it kept going..The second one still looked really clean..
I have a Ford Transit Connect Sport van as a second vehicle..Again, it is built to a budget, but i have to say, it is brilliant and so easy to own..That's the beauty of Ford..You can buy one and forget about it..I'll never be a 'fan' of the brand, but of the four i've owned, they've all been dirt cheap to run and proved to be very reliable.
But how fast does it go round our track?
Reading through comments it's nice to see my thoughts are echoed by many.
It appears Ford across the pond was a decade behind the times until the mid 80's.
My work colleague in the early 1980's had Sierra as a company car, i drove it once. Massive under steer to the point of being scary.
A mechanic told me they were't reliable cars, but cheap and easy to fix.
Cortina 1600E was a nice car
Blooming heck Michelle Newman!
Says something about how unrefined cars were back in the day when even in the adverts you could hear the doors making a loud "CLONK" when you shut them.
I would be happy just watch all old Top Gear if they are this good
I remember the mondeo release being a big deal in my house as my dad was gonna be getting one as a company car... even brand new it looked like a 20 year old heap of shit 😂
Most cars back then looked like heaps of shit, and within no time at all were rusty heaps of shit
I loved the sierras but could never get into the Mondeos, the new 2015 on models are the first ones to get my attention.
The Mondeos did solve the rust problem, I had an 8 year old 1.6 sierra with holes you could put you fist through on the rear arches and bits falling off the doors when you closed them. When I had an 8 year old Mondeo it didn't have a spot of rust on it.
But they drove well and went for ever! Unfortunately every one had a cracked bumper!
@@DurkoppFordertechnic Most cars yes. But my 1994 Toyota Celica still looks beautiful today, 24 years later. Some cars are just that bit better than the rest. Mudanos on the other hand... Sticky tape holding the bumpers together was almost a factory standard.
@@video99couk Toyota celica? That's your car of choice and you judge other cars?
18yrs old and my 1st car was a 1600E. Loved it.
Many followed
MK3 2000E
MK4 2000GL
MK5 2000 GL
Sierra 1800 LX auto
Sierra 2000 Si 😀
1st car was a 1600E. Bit special for your 1st. Kudos. When I was 19 I bought an Escort 16 Ghia mk2 thought I'd arrived! Good memories 👍
@@jesuspobre88
Indeed they were my Ford friend, indeed they were 👍
I had 4 sierras 1 hatchback and 3 sapphires. Great cars. Never had any problems with any of them. Last one I had was a j reg a d I only sold it cos of the job I was doing and I was driving 25k a year. Sierra was a 1.8 and very thirsty. Still miss it though
From the days when Top Gear was actually worth watching.
Loved the part were he shuts the passenger door on the MK3 cortina and it looks like the hinge pins have already dropped, oh them good old two doors shuts with sounds of a empty biscuit tin.
I feel old. I remember getting into a Mondeo the year they were first on sale and thinking "Nice car".
I had a mk1 1.6 mondeo it was under powered and tired when got it with 78k on the clock there was a black hole in 4th gear and it used to cripple my right knee after long journeys but in 4 years it only let me down twice (battery and starter motor died) both avoidable and cheep to fix and for that i loved it and have many fond memories of it
@Smokeango yeah the body and bumpers were spotless the only dent was were some pratt jumped on the bonnet one night
@Smokeango no never had a Sierra but nearly bought one as my first car i test drove a couple but got a mk4 escort instead mainly for the insurance and better on fuel always liked the Sierra sapphire its the one I'd have given the choice
@Smokeango That';s why Paul Radisich's bumpers flew off with great regulairity in the BTCC championship!
@Smokeango i agree that car was a bit special the mexico especially given the choice of any escort it would be a mk4 RS turbo it was a car i wanted most back in the day
Back in the day I had a mk1 Cortina GT, followed by a mk2 1600E , a mk 3 2000GT and finally a mk5 Crusader. These were all easy to live with but quick to rust and with fairly poor handling. The Sierra 2.0GLSI I had later was a much better car but it was the Mondeo that really stood out being a turning point for Ford Europe where they started producing great handling cars. Its easy to sneer nowadays at the dull looks of the early versions but later versions when fitted with one of the bigger engines were very capable cars.
They were really rated when new, much like the Focuses were when they came out. Fords before the Mondeo wre ecrtiicised for being very lacklustre dynamically, (not terrible, but just very average). Mondeo changed the game when it came out
PRODUCTION NOTE' The Red Mk.3 Ford Cortina "GXL" used in in this was Supplied to the BBC TOP GEAR team By Keith Macey (TV/Film Production Consultant) from the FORD CORTINA Mk.3. OWNERS REGISTER, from their cars available for TV/Film/and promotional work and also supplied the Daytona Yellow Crayford Mk.3 Cortina used in the Top Gear Magazine feature, for the BBC publication,
Anyone else hear the sound of the mk3 Cortina doors closing, sounded like metal dustbin lids.
I was thinking someone should have edited that sound - what a nail
The Yellow GXL 2 door Ford used in the Advert was one of their per production cars, (note it has missing exterior trim, on petrol flap and gutter rails, with vinyl roof just hanging over the drip rail, so did not have the sound deadening pads fitted inside the door skins either!, thus the hollow sound) as they shut, funny how Ford made ads to show off their "NEW CARS" that were not in fully finished, as show here,and even damaged condition, as seen in another advert with the rear valance dented in!!!, I have owned a Mk.3. for over 43 years and the doors on mine sound a lot nicer when you shut them when Ford have fitted the sound absorbing pads!!! lol.
Sierra 2.3D, my dad bought it on aftermarket and he sold it when it had 650,000 km and engine was still in good shape, only exterior and interior did fade.
I love the Sierra Sapphire 😍
The early Cortina looks like the first Ford Falcon. Those tail lights.
Strange to think that nowadays, hardly anyone buys a Mondeo and silly SUVs and "premium" German cars have taken over. Sierra/Mondeo man has become 320d man. How fashions change! I kinda miss the unpretentious functionality and character of cars like the Sierra. Modern cars are so over complicated!
I can't stand any suv/ crossover ! They should all be collected up and fired up in to space or destroyed !
I pretty much learned most of my car knowledge on fixing my step-Dad's Sierras in my teens. Have to say, these days I've gone "premium German" too, with Mercedes C-classes. The interesting thing is thy C-class is very similar to the Sierra (certainly the later Sierra Azure fuel-injected version) the only main difference being a OBD II code reader is needed.
It's because a Mondeo costs as much to fix as a BMW now and they look sh#t where the BMW doesn't. 2015 Mondeo looks good though so I might go back to Ford.
@@marcustaylor670 - Mondeo is far cheaper to fix than a Beemr.I like BMWs, but you are wrong there
@@mattylamb9194 - I mean't BMW's from the E46 era, I wouldn't touch the newer ones. I'm still living in 2004
Loved the advert for the Mk3. Smooth bastard. Knocked her bandy!!🤪
That Sierra section went very heavy on the Peter Gabriel songs! 😂😂
5:34 went for kiss, then realized it was Dad...
Haha 😅
That cortina is still on the road today,
That 'A' reg Sierra 2.3 Ghia with the pepper pot alloys is a working class mans
dream.
I bought the Ghia alloys off a fellow sierra owner for extra street cred on my 1.6L, with fat 195/14 tyres.
MY god the fast show sketch was spot on lol
Somewhere in the middle of the video audio started to sound like my neighbor's watching the show.
Clarkson's enunciation still had a slight pluminess to it back then. His market trader drawl hadnt quite been perfected at this stage and was still a 'work in progress'
I recall the Sierra 4x4 2.9 such a great car/engine..
“It’ll go along at 70mph all day” hahaha
...If you REALLY floor it 😀
The high quality version can be found on TVArk.
They are talking from their heart and pure soul with calm attitude... The old is better and get better.. The new programs are such a waste of time 🚶
Quentin is in Birmingham for this one. 11:00 Bristol St Motors, Bristol Road.
That reminds me to order a skip next weekend
Still better than new topgear
That tiny person in the chippy!!!
'93 it's the year I was born. Oh I'm a fan of Top Gear⚙.
Hello. Are there pistons with compression greater than 9.5 for a 1.4 engine? I want to put 100 octane gasoline. the goal is to choose economic consumption
Had three Sierras. Great cars, if a bit rust prone in their twilight.
If only they knew how rare and collectable these cars are
No Cosworth Sierra?? And no wearing seatbelts in the cortina? Fun times!!
it's cause ford wanted handling. and back in the days if oyu wanted handling you went for RWD. unless you were alfa romeo or honda. still the only real downside from RWD is a bit higher fuel consumption and its not very good in the snow unless its mid mounted.
A very young looking Quentin...Hair is the same as today 😊
I can see now where Chris Morris got his inspiration for The Day Today 😂
I want to find a garage that will change my oil and filters for £14 these days. You'd be lucky if they would open the bonnet for that now!!
If you earn the same money as the people 60 years ago, you are clearly doing something wrong
i've always wondered why the Sierra was RWD, all of its competitors, the Cavalier, the Montego, and the 405 were FWD, even it's AMERICAN counterpart, the Taurus was FWD
It could be and this is just a guess. That they thought okay we are radically changing the shape, so let's go conservative with the drivetrain. British buyers were well known for being conservative back then. And the shape wasn't setting the world on fire with popularity at first
Great to see this old Top Gear. Shame about the sound.
A u nas, leciał Magazyn Auto i człowiek się cieszył.
Got a mk 1 si mondy now, still a good reliable car, would like a mk 3 cortina!
I don't think that you would get away with the advertisement for the Mk 3 Cortina today.
Hahahaha that mondeo looks like an old banger even back then
I still own a Mondeo lol the MK1 1.6i it's got 150.000 miles on the clock. Solid but needed alot of repairs in its life 😂
Did you ever have problems with the headlights going dull? Did the dash digital clock work especially it's backlight or the original radio backlight stop working too?
Jeremy I know you won’t believe me when I say this but one day you’re going to work for Amazon after you punched a producer for the bbc,rest assured you’ll still be loved
And then you're going to host a non-motoring quiz show on ITV.
Hahahaaaaaaa
before all that he's going to turn in to a narcissistic obnoxious wanker
Maybe you are one 😅😅😅
Still be loved? Not by me!
I had one of the last Cortina’s in 1982 it wasn’t a bad car for its day but it didn’t have electronic ignition so you were forever adjusting the circuit breaker but the most serious fault was the camshaft. Not the camshaft itself but poor lubrication. Mine failed through its inability to climb any hill. So I took the camshaft cover off and on starting the car I noticed that the lub pipe which ran along the camshaft was pumping oil over the top of the cam shaft and that was in tick over! Oil was going nowhere near the cams! It was out of warranty unfortunately and the Main Dealer didn’t want to know. After that I completely lost faith with the standard of Ford engineering. But I subsequently In the 1980’s had a Mondeo as a company car in maroon, it was quite a good car surprisingly good, but the standard of the paintwork was very poor I would rare similar to BMC Marina of the 1970’s. Never had a Ford since, never will! I’ve moved up to BMW!
Michelle Newman looks and sounds like a Rebecca Front character, with the exception of the humour.
The Grand Tour has just remade this episode.
Its sad to think these cars are no longer around 😕
Every woman i can remember from my kid days worn this light blue jacket.
This is When they actually Reviewed cars not all the bulshit they previously did
5:48 ... "clang!!!!"
That cortina has consul on the bonnet.
Early mark 1 were known as consul cortina
Ah, the Mondeo, a British institution. Rolled onto the screen at 1:13 to Elgar's "Nimrod", a classic piece of rousing Brittania written by one of the best British composers. And then we're introduced to a car which was built in Belgium by the German arm of an American company. About as British as Sauerbrauten, followed by Mattentaart and washed down with a pint of Budweiser...
Shame that most have now rusted away. You hardly ever see an escort these days and they were still being made in 2000.
Not exciting - well, it's rear wheel drive.As someone who's never driven a rear-wheel drive car, I'd love one
Despite some people's attempts to convince us otherwise, RWD isn't an instant passport to driving nirvana. The vast majority of the time, it makes no practical difference in everyday diving. It isn't intrinsically 'better'. Once upon a time all cars were RWD, even the most mundane, but it didn't make them all exciting supercars. They can be fun, but for every benefit, there's downside.
I see SUBO working in the chippy @45secs before she hit the big time on X factor .
Having driven a Mk4 Cortina 78 or 79? and a 1991 Sierra 2.0 GLX, countless Mk2/3/4 Mondeo's and owning a Telstar TX5, I can sense and feel where Ford were going in terms of R&D and driving dynamics across the different years. I can see where they were going with the Mondeo - a midsize Ford which will become a global platform, although for me it was the mk3 Mondeo ST V6 2.5) where Ford had it together, I just didn't like the feel and dynamics of the first 2 generations. Global Ford offerings in the mid 1980's you had from Asia the Telstar (FWD) Europe has the Sierra (RWD), America has the Taurus (FWD). They have their own models, trims etc. Jump ahead a few years to the early 90's and midsize segment is going to FWD. The Sierra is being phased out. Telstar is still in production (Until 1999). America gains the Contour (FWD) Which will become the Fusion to the midsize line up - which looks ALOT like the Mondeo. Now look at them - they are extremely similar in appearance and in spec. Taurus is still in production as a fullsize platform after the end of the Crown Vic. Ford Australia discontinued the Falcon, their fullsize car. Guess whats there instead? Mondeo. Not a bad car by any means. In terms of business I understand - one global offering. As a consumer it kinda sucks my choice is limited, what if I want RWD and V8? No Falcon. No Crown Vic/Marquis etc. And its not just Ford doing this, its GM too and others starting to follow suit.
any colour as long as it was RUST ;)
why does it say Consul on the bonnet when it's supposedly a Cortina?
The Mk 1 Cortina to give it it's full title was known as the Ford Consul Cortina. All the subsequent marks of Cortina were just known as Ford Cortinas.
Back in the days when Jezza could do his jacket up.
Parents had one of the first 1.6L Sierras. It was the most unreliable cars they had up to that point and the doors were rotten after 4 years. They had three R21s after that, that proved spacious, great to drive, reliable and after the first R21 died being side swiped by an Astra at 40mph, safe.
Martin Jones my parents had one too! My dad drove it a least 10 years and did big mileage. The most reliable car they ever had and never welded. Many happy memories.
oh, VHS went muffled
Yeah! and Gina Mckee's character in Brass Eye
About classic ford cortina is one of special and successful car in the world, since from mk-1 corporation with lotus created hi-performance sport car, light weight, hi-performance engine, driving real handling and easy control after mk-2 once again cortina to be luxury sedans, comfortable, luxury, hi-quality products !
In 70's mk-3 coke cola bottle body design have more engine to choose from line-4 ohv to v-6 ohc engine, more powerful, more stylish at mk-5 cortina back in modern family sedan and sedan wagon again, reliable, comfortable, for every family daily to drive
Until in 82 ford created new generation family car have brand new featuring design most by the bodywork body line very smooth and good looking
But new generation ford Sierra mk-1 engine 1.6L~2.0L line-4 ohc engine only can tell is smoothly not hi-performance and quality !
But by that engine running real smoothly in fuel economy control is good, more better early old cortina mk-2 to mk-5 ohc engine until new sierra mk-3 in 90's choose brand new DOHC twin cam line-4 engine and more better fuel injection system making engine keep hi-quality fuel economy control in the same time have more horsepower,making engine have more hi-performance !
But real sad is ford in same time stop created new XR no more 2.3L & 2.8L v-6 engine in brand new sierra, even since after ford granada, capri and scorpion stop production after Europe ford no more highest level hi-performance sport car and luxury sedan
By now ford mondeo metrostar taking old granada his place
About "sport" in Europe ford may be by now is ford focus ST / RS !
sure that mondeo is fugly, but the good thing about the era 1995-2000 is that it has good electronics, not the crap nowadays
Now in 2020 (in lockdown in Melbourne) & looking back at the British auto industry, I scratch my head & ....... think. Why? Cars overall are really better nowadays. Panels fit. You don't screw nuts up like the Charlie Drake type in the Ford Dealership. All told. Ford existed and at times even thrived. It was just a good thing not to let the public know. Of course, Ford Globally is rather better, but it's still rather less than the sum of its parts. I still like stuff built sometime somewhere in the USA (or pretend to). When I worked in Kentucky, my (Ford) MercuryGrandMarquisBrogham had a 8litre V8 & was 19feet long, but again, build was really very good and even in the seventies it had climate control auto trans, auto light covers, & other stuff - you name it, complete with auto seats & as for the kids, we lost 'em in the back. And as for all Fords made anywhere on Earth, better left unsaid as to what they routinely produce over the years. Yet ford has improved, at least somewhat. Now zeeGermans rule the rich (&or snobs) and Japan thinks it's tops with Toyota and such, so, soon we'll just have to see the South Korean Moon rising, to show everyone how to do car making, and proper(ly)..
Old is gold
The first Sierras were terrible to drive, that's why the Cavalier had a free run. Ford saved themselves a tiny amount of money per car with penny-pinching false economies. When they sorted out the driving vagueness it was a decent car. Terrible nylon upholstery though. It looked knackered within a year.
So why the Consul?
AFU 809K ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 01 August 2009, that's not good...
LOE302X still going strong!
A780 KHP ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 19 February 1999
C977 GOV ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 01 March 2001
E421 ROK ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 01 July 2001
J856 AHL ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 20 April 2006
Hey, can you check my old Sierra's.
H726 BRV
H725 KOV
@@paulgraham4567 it's the DVLA online vehicle enquiry service; you just type the reg in.
H726BRV blue 1.8 petrol August 1990: untaxed. Tax due 1st of October 2000. No MOT details held. Logbook last issued 26th of January 2000.
H725KOV blue 1.8 petrol August 1990: untaxed. Tax due 1st of August 2002. No MOT details held. Logbook last issued 4th of November 2002.
As they actually came up, rather than "vehicle details could not be found", technically they shouldn't have been scrapped or changed to privately registered etc.
My family have had a car in a garage since 1998 and it still comes up, saying that it's been untaxed and that the tax expired in March 1999 and that the logbook was last issued in September 1997.
Thankfully, when the sound went a bit dodgy I stopped hearing the proper plummy accents old chap! Good video though.
What happened to the sound track half way through
It appears TH-cam restricts the audio on some videos due to copyright but not in all countries.
just after 7:09 it goes muffled. seems like somehow the tape is like that; TH-cam doesn't muffle sound like that, only mutes (silences) it completely