Ford Cortina Mk IV | Retro Car review | Ford Cortina | Drive in | 1976
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- 'Drive In' reporter Tony Bastable takes a look at the new offering from Ford Dagenham factor - the Ford Cortina Mk IV.
First shown: 20/10/1976
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Love watching these old reviews as it takes me back, it’s amazing how they did not bother cleaning them up to look gleaming and shiny like they do nowadays. Paint was so dull back then.....
With the 1976 Ford Cortina, I always think of Onslow from Keeping up Appearances as played by the late Geoffrey Hughes. When he started it or stopped the engine, there was always the signature backfire.
I was going to make that comment myself,you beat me to it! 🤣
I learned recently that Onslow’s VSD 389S was still registered as late as Oct 2020.
Aaaa a fking TV genius in our very mists
They also had another one rotting in the front yard, if I recall.
@@saxongreen78 a hillman avenger that the dog lived in
"Made in this country..disputes permitting!!!" Classic!
Yes. How did Britain survive the 1970's?
@@hugglescake We were the 'sick man of Europe'. The eighties weren't much better if you ask me.
£17200 for the Ghia in today's prices
Was this what John Lydon and his band were ranting about?
My grandpa had two of these. Remember it well. Went on holiday to Yorkshire s few times, remember stopping halfway on side of the road to make a cup of tea using the gas stove and cucumber sandwiches. Happy times. It feels like you can almost reach out and touch that time again, it's so close in our memories and yet so far off. I miss those times. I miss my grandpa too.
No one cares
a b Knock it off. You cared enough to reply. I thought it was a nice memory to share, better than all of the miserable and inevitable “You can see this car rusting away on this video” posts.
a b piss off
@@ab-jp8mf Everyone cares. Some people pretend not to that's all. Hope your life gets better. Memories are important and sharing memories may seem totally irrelevant across a vast internet, but there will always be at least one person who can relate. Be happy!
@@ab-jp8mf I think enough has been said hasnt it?
BRAND NEW in the long hot summer of 1976 and sadly went to car heaven in 1991...YES CAR HEAVEN
R.I.P Old girl
U let it die!!?
Lovely car,was this the model in the Bond film The spy that loved me.Nice
@@tsomeone950 replaced by Sierra
I had a Mk4 1.6 GL , cambelt snapped , got towed home , fitted a new one , good to go . Also hired. mk5 2.3 and it was rapid .
Cars from that era were not only great looking, but you could work on them yourself.. not like cars of today, when in most cases you have to take them to a garage and get stung!
It's amazing how recently cars you can't fix yourself are though.
Just last week, me and my dad fixed my 10 year old fiesta with a hammer, a set of hand wrenches and an impact wrench that really isn't needed, but dad just loves whipping a wheel off in seconds. Admittedly bushings and gaskets are probably still largely the same, but I think the real thing that's been lost is the knowledge by the average person on how to do these things since cars now are so reliable that there is no reason for the average person to know how to do even basic maintenance. The only reason I've started to learn how to do things is because I need to know them because my car is held together with cable ties courtesy of its last owner.
The most advanced thing even on a car that only went out of production 3 years ago is the AC compressor.
Agreed, they had character.
Dispute permitting... Hilarious. God bless the 1970s..
As a foreigner I don't get "dispute permitting". What does it actually mean?
@@Runeakb Labour unions striking
Rune Britain’s manufacturing industry was crippled by industrial action in the 1970s
The Mk 4 Cortina is my absolute favourite car of all time, I know I'm weird but when I first saw one as a child in 1977 I just thought it was the best looking car I'd ever seen.
Same. I was 10 and thought the boxy shape was revolutionary.
I saw the Sierra in 1982 as a 10 year old, and though that was revolutionary, the future, over the boxy Cortina/Taunus.
I was a big fan of all cortina's except perhaps the Mk I - prefered the bigger Zyphr back then. Really loved the Mk III's and dreamed of owning a GXL. Later when working in a Ford dealer I had to deliver a 2000E to a cusomer living a long distance away. God that was some car and still recall that drive but all Mk III's were deadly on fuel and a bit wallowy on the road.
The Mk3 version was far better looking than the later Mk4 version, where all the lovely curves have gone
from the previous version.
Another classic and practical summary from Tony Bastable.
I like the comment that "this one will be produced in Britain..disputes notwithstanding". Sadly very true and typical of the era.
Lovely car to travel in however, much nicer place to be in than the earlier mark 3s, and one I remember fondly especially the 2 litre models.
Proper review, just a shame it was only a few minutes.
2.0L GT Mk III - 1974 Purple Velvet Metallic with Black Vinyl Roof, High-Back seats (cloth trim). Think it was what was referred to as the "facelift model" as it had the rectangular headlights. What a car - especially being my first. If only it hadn't rusted away to sh*t in a couple of years. Still - replaced it with a a MkII "Grannie" 2.3 V6 - and that lasted a bit longer. Happy days!
I love cortinas, I have had 3 and I wish I could travel back in time to buy a mark IV brand new.
Why? They weren't very good.
Do you wish you kept it?
@@assininecomment1630 I had a Mk V 2.0 GLS and that was a great car. Biggest headaches I ever had were with a couple of Mk I Golfs I owned.
ask doc brown to lend u the delorean
"Disputes permitting". Lol.
Dull looking car
The MkIII was beset by the same problem six years earlier...it's a wonder they ever made _any_ cars!
My Dad bought one brand new in 1979 for my Mom - it was a diamond white 1.6L Station wagon with choc brown velvet interior - what a great car and economical too!
My uncle had one of these in the mid-80s in Greece I was like 10 years old and only remembers how much fun the car was he would fly around everywhere with it it was bad ass it reminded me of a Dukes of Hazzard car
Iv just checked on the dvla site and that red cortina went to the scap yard around
24th August 1991.
Could you provide a link - can't find info on scrapped cars on the DVLA site thanks!
@@speedbird737 you are thinking of it wrong, put in a reg no. it shows you the mot due date, you just asssume as it was so long ago it has been scrapped
:(
Made at Dagenham “disputes permitting ...” Ouch Tony you sceptic ....
I remember them. Most people in my street had a ford back in the lates 80s and early 90s. With the exception of a few vauxhalls and a bmw.
I do recall my neighbours cortina was constantly in need of repair. He had another for parts though. I've sinced moved, but i imagine its still there. He was a hoarder.
my parents hired one of these when I was 12 or so.Very similar if not the exact same model and the same colour. An orangey red. All I remember was the thing stalling lots of times on the way down to London.
South Africa enjoyed British built MK4 Cortina's with police specials which had the 3.0 Essex V6 in, a racier type 9 box and aggressive diff gearing as well as a unique bodykit. The South African police Interceptor's had the 5.0 Windsor V8 in a 2 door body and again with the very unique bodykit which included underspoilers and arch embellishments plus a meaty ol' boot spoiler for putting lights into. Best Britain got in engines was the 2 door 2.3S which was a bloody super towing package.
I had a 1982 MK5 2.3 Cortina in 2006. It had the best gear change of any car I've ever owned.
The shifter was lovely...I once drove a 1979 2lt with a 5 speed.
i have one now as a first car and i agree. smoothest gearbox i have ever seen.
That cortina with the two litre and the Slightly later Granada, which looked so similar were lovely cars.
The 2.0l sohc 'Pinto' engine was used loads of 70s and 80s Fords. It had some problems with cam oiling and oil leaks from the cam cover but it would keep going forever.
I had a few Capris with that engine and a Sierra 2.0 GL estate all were reliable in the end the Sierra went to the scrap yard only because no one wanted it. 177,000 miles on it at the end.
@@nigeh5326 I can vouch for going on forever. My second car was a MK V 2.0 Ghia S "MOO 668V" I seem to remember (first car was a Mini, of course) and it was a lovely car to own, apart from the void bushes. The cam belt broke on mine and being a young inexperienced driver I kept on turning it over and over when it had conked out *cringe* I took it to the garage, they just put a new cambelt on it, and away it went. I drove it for another 2 years with no problems at all. Built like a tank, comfortable and with twin port webers, pretty quick for it's day. I sold it in the end to a guy who I thought would take care of it, he used it for demolition derby. May she R.I.P.
@@nigeh5326 love the pinto love my capri
@@fraggit Neighbour had the same model. I remember the sad morning when I woke up and there outside his house was the 2.0 Ghia on bricks. Some tealeaf had nicked his alloys. No wheel locks in 1980 I guess.
I owned one of these in a fetching navy blue. Really liked it. Mostly reliable but the gearstick used to have a habit of disconnecting itself from the gearbox. I got very good at putting it all back together at the side of the road😁
I personally preferred the mk 3. Nicer shape! Each to his own I suppose. Mk3 was my very first car, Olympic blue. Loved it, I artexed the wheel arches, rusty, noisy cam, Still loved it......
Mine was Olympic blue first car!
From the beautiful MK 3 to the ghastly MK 4, how could Ford get it so wrong?
My father had one , 1978 mustard color 1.6 gl.. And my uncle had a white colored 2.0 Ghia, wonderful cars...
Lots of comments about the MK3 being better looking. At the time (no hindsight was then available) the Mk3 was seen as dated and as an old throwback to the Coke bottle profiles of try-hard Americana.
This one (when new) had a much fresher, more "European" look.
Had a 1.6 GL in white. The first car I had that I knew would start when the key was turned
Funny how the ford cortinas look so tinny and boxy yet i want one! Haha i might pop into my ford dealers and see what they have this afternoon haha amazing how as the decades pass cars change so much, sometimes for the better, sometimes not!
I love how so detailed car shows used to be, the technical spec is far better than the crap shows of today, made me laugh how he mentions the 1.3 has only gone up £28.50! Haha
Ford Taunus was the name in the Netherlands if I’m not mistaken.
Every where , except for the UK
No nonsense review by Tony. Never be presented like this anymore. Imagine Clarkson talking about negative camber and spring frequencies
Hard to believe that this was 42 years ago. Jeremy Clarkson, born 1960 was a 16 year old kid in 1976 and unable to drive when Ford replaced the curvy Mk3 Cortina with the the square rigged Mk4.
Yes - great to hear a review by a proper motoring journalist, not a celeb. I have respect for Freddie Flintoff as a cricketer - but presenter of Top Gear??? What were they thinking?
He is basically reading the press release while parked in a National Trust car park, the reality was the car (which I have driven) was in terms of handling, a dog, and scary to drive if you were used to its European Fwd competitors.
Everybody moans about no old top gear being on but yet nobody watched it, hence why it was cancelled. Same with 5th gear that was basically the exact same..
@@grahamariss2111 the Cortina was European. What continent do you think Germany is on??
In the early 1970s, Ford still had a trademark look: The Mk3 Cortina, Maverick, Torino, LTD, Australian Falcon, even the Pinto and Mustang carried those "coke bottle lines" (though quite awkwardly, in the case of the latter 2). By the mid 1970s, Ford couldn't decide how a Ford looked; weird roof lines with front tailfins here, euro-boxiness there, then there was the U.S. Granada that was actually advertised as a fake Mercedes. The Mk4 is the look you'd get if handed a pencil and ruler to a kid and said "Draw me a car in 3 minutes."
"Only a general worsening of the economic situation (if that's possible)" 😂Love the thinly veiled despair of 1970s reporting.
My first car! Bought 2nd hand in 1984.. Beige with brown vinyl roof👍🏻
Never owned a mkIV, but my first car was a MkV which I had in 1989... 2L Pinto. Loved it!
Made in Dagenham..was the dispute he is talking about the famed Equal Pay dispute.?
yep was around that time, see made in dagenham the movie
First car of my dads I can ever remember. S reg mint green with vinyl roof
I can still hear the clapped out camshaft clatter due to oil starvation! LOL.
Yes..that and the sound of rust eating the chassis and floor alive
My late father used to sell Cortina's back in the 70's and the camshaft on some
models did have a problem with oil starvation, which led to premature wear.
This made the cam rattle, we called it back then "Cortina Camshaft" I seem to
recall Ford issuing a kit to Dealers which improved oil distribution to the cam,
to cure the problem.
Regular Oil changes and quality Oil at that would ensure the camshafts feeder spray bar stayed working.
@@lazycalm41 True - my Father's 1600's never developed cam clatter and he had two of them - they were quiet right up to 98,000 miles - when the rings would then suffer serious blow by and finish the engine. He was fastidious with oil changes every 6000 miles and Castrol GTX!
Yeah, if you take an old cassette tape and shake it sideways, that's what
a knackered Cortina camshaft sounded like. It was known in the trade as
Cortina Cam. And yes it was down to poor oil circulation around the over
head cam, I seem to recall.
My uncle still has a brand new cortina special edition carousel and a fiesta ( festival ? ) squirrelled away in his barn, he was partner in a small ford dealership that went bust in 1983 and some of the cars from the inventory `found`their way into his barn. I joke that when he dies I will put them on ebay :-O
He didn't show anything about the car,just talking about fuel economy
I owned an identical car to the one featured a 1.6 GL same colour, only problem was it hadn’t had an easy life one of its former owners was Avis lol. The wipers only worked on the fastest setting, the sills and rear arches were eaten away by corrosion, the drivers seat was completely shagged out you’d sink half a mile downwards. Can’t remember the mileage or even the year of it but I didn’t lose any money when I sold it on and it never broke down on me, absolutely as tough as old boots
Belting motor. Soon as I get some money together I'm getting myself one!
A great car to own and a sensible investment.
Becoming hard to find. Very collectable now.
There can't be many left on the roads these days.
One thing I remember about being a young rear seat passenger of these Fords in the 1980s was how difficult it was to see out of the side window. The rear bench seemed really low and windows very high. My parents ran an R reg Granada 2.0 L in the early to mid 1980s.
I'd love to own a Cortina or Capri for rear wheel drive shits and giggles but ultra high scene tax put that dream to bed.
The days a car show did not require clowns to present it ..
yeah, very boring. nobody other than you wants to watch this crap
I always think of Onslow's car backfiring in Keeping up Appearances when I see this!
with signature backfire upon starting
In germany its named "Taunus".
... and the exhaust is its anus.
Also in continental europe.
Do you mean Taurus?
@@andyburnett8012 Taunus
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taunus_TC
Mm. Always fancied a mk4/5 Cortina but never got the chance. And now a good one would be so far out of my financial reach.😢
I was fascinated by this car when it was released. I was 10 years old. Loved cars. Shane they didn’t show the interior. Imagine a top of the range car for £3000 or bottom end just £1200 now! Can’t get a phone for that lower price.
Seeing the Thames logo and accompanying music, I almost expected the "Benny Hill Show" to commence. Our local public TV station in North Texas used to air Benny Hill reruns.
It reminds me of Morecambe and Wise. They added the 70s singers over the top of the music.
🎶Here they are now. 🎶Morecambe and Wise🎶
The Thames opening logo is synonymous to my growing up in the 1970's. Takes me back each time I hear it and at one time that was multiple times a day. Each tv company had their own catchy opening at the beginning of their own shows; Thames, LWT, Yorkshire, ATV were my personal favs.
@@TheGramophoneGirlI remember it commencing several British shows and specials on Channel 13, our local PBS station in Dallas-Fort Worth. Especially Benny Hill.
Good looking, but the 1.6 L I had was a definite Dagenham Dustbin like the Mk1 I bought as my first car.....
£8,000 in today's money for the base model, £13,000 for the highest, a base model 2018 Mondeo is £17,000...
I came for the car is wonderful/rust bucket and look at thoses 1970's clothes comments. And also the Thames intro to.
Proper car programme. Proper cars.
Alas these cars never had durability in mind, obsolescence was Fords idea, until the public click on....
Yes please I always wanted one never did get one great looking motor unfortunately I can't afford one now great footage enjoyed that any chance of complete episodes yet hopefully soon just wondering 😊👍🏻
Cars like these were all individual and were all very different from one another and you could tell them apart.Nowadays they all look generally the same as each other and are pretty Bland
I still don't understand why this square design was better than the mk 3 it replaced - which was rounded and svelte, by comparison.
Well, that kind of look was modern and new back then. I like both looks to be honest.
"disputes permitting"
I had a MK3, 2 litre GXL was my first car,,,good ol' days,,,great vid,
Looks a lot newer than many 70s cars in North America. Looks basically like an 80s car
When one compares the MKIV Cortina with the MKIII Taunus (which did not have a Coke-bottle hip like a Cortina), one can see how efficient and minimal the facelift actually was.
My dad had the 2litre ghia estate, we thought it was amazing at the time.
Heading to Gates to buy one with my Midland Bank loan.
Cool! Had a mk4 2.0L about 8 years ago, in red. Cost me $500 was great fun in the wet.
I so much prefer the Mk3....
So do I. I'd love to own a 2000E saloon in metallic purple.
The Mk3 was too curvaceous and from the Swinging 60's. No we wanted boring BOXY styling in the 70's! It was all straight lines done with rulers in the 70's! Remember the uproar when Ford went back to curves or 'jelly-mould' styling for the Sierra in the 80's? Evidently we still wanted our 'Box' cars! I once saw a very early light brown 1982/3 Sierra with the pre-facelift single headlights and slatted grille wearing a 1986 'C' plate as it had sat on the forecourt for years! I guess the colour didn't help!
@@georgejacob3162 Boxy styling...yes wasn't this when the 'Etch-a-sketch' toy was popular? ;-)
Re: the brown Sierra - could it have been a "saloon" base entry level model or was it really from 1982/3?
It was a 5 door hatchback. Definitely from 82/83 with the original front end styling with single headlamps and slatted grill. The pre-facelift model didn't sell well. Not to private buyers anyway. Many saw it as a 'bubble' car! They'd still rather be seen in a box rather than a bubble!
@@georgejacob3162 they didn't change the front end until 1986. The only difference was very early cars had the front headlight surround / grill painted black to look a bit like a Tina. The twin headlight and no grill was on the ghia model from 82, and on all models from 86...
"Made (disputes permitting) at Dagenham" :)
I had a MkV Cortina. Absolutely loved that car. I put a 2.0L engine, 5 speed gearbox and differential from a Capri in it. I had it for nearly three years. 😍
Makes a change most people i know put sierra boxes in
Ha ha, built in Dagenham disputes permitting!! No wonder ford shut it.
marvelous cars thoses "Cortina" moreover the 70' (i remember, as i was teenager at that time). The better generation among the different "MK" second me. A very elegant model, more than the german "Taunus" which was more "rigid" regarding the general esthetic line.
I had a second hand mk 4 1600 a long time ago !! Soon after buying it the gearbox kept jumping out of gear. Solved by fitting a used one from a scrapyard. The fuel consumption was around 28 mpg average. Typical for the time. The cam belt broke on my drive, very easy to replace. The main fault ,as was the majority of cars from that era was body corrosion. Mine had to be scrapped because the body had rotted away, something rarely seen now. Compared with the equivalent car from today it was crude, and very basic, but it got me and the family around until it died from the rust bug.
Australian Cortina's..1978..had a 4.1 litre motor in them..my fist car..1982
Gas guzzler..a 2 litre in a cortina was more than efficient
Steve Dickson : The in line six was very economical..26 mpg in mine. They carried a 2.92 or optional 2.77 axle ratio, 2300 rpm at 70 mph. Better mpg at 60 mph than my Mark 3 2.0 XL Cortina.Auto. If you didnt drive it like Clive from the episode in Neighbours about 1987, where his wife died and the mad bu99er did a "Sustained Loss of Traction" in his Mark 3 XLE 250 TD crimson red Cortina with vinal roof. Even my 2.0 auto could pop a burnout at will on its Koeran 185S13s. I experimented
.The great thing about a 4.1 litre Cortina is the Borg Warner 78 axle was the same "weapons grade" diff the Aussies exported to the USA for F body Firebirds and some S10 trucks. You could incinerate one right hand side 185S13 tyre than explode it, then move on to the spare. Then onto your mothers Escort Van 175S13s...after that, the 200 mm crown wheel diff still wouldnt break. I couldn't possibly comment on how I know this.
Love the Cortina. We had one when I was in high school. The design holds up well. On the other hand, the host’s bell bottom does not.
I seem to remember that there was a suspension update with the similar Mark 5. My friend had a Mk 4 back in the 70's and it was a bit roly poly but he loved the gear change and engine
I just preferred the first 3 cortinas before it shape wise , still nice cars back in day
Sensible no nonsense car, but would’ve liked to have seen twin round headlights for the top end model like on the old gxl..
For some reason in 1976 Ford both in Europe and the USA began fitting either square
or rectangular lights from 76 onwards. I don't know the reason for this change, but
I preferred the look of the round lights.
Because non-round headlights looked more modern, and allowed for many more styling choices. The US mandated sealed beams until the early 80s, and styling suffered as a result.
@@nkt1 I still prefer round headlights to the more square or rectangular shape. Look at the Jaguars, nearly all
those had round headlights, as did most luxury cars of the 70's including Rolls Royce, and Aston Martin.
It was just the down market "Fiesta's, Escorts" and the GM equivalent models "Chevette" "Cavalier" and "Victor"
Not forgetting the original "Austin Princess" range, and the dreadful "Austin 1100's, 1300's and the even more
dreadful. Austin Wolseley 2200 six, and the even more aweful Maxi's.
Back then "Bland was beautiful" get rid of the chrome, put a black plastic grille up - front, and take all the
shape out of the vehicle. ie- all the curves. result :- Euro box design.
@Gary Dunn Luxury car makers stuck with sealed beams for much longer because a) they didn't sell enough cars to justify the expense of developing unique lights and b) aerodynamics were less of a consideration for their target market.
That's Polesden Lacey in Bookham Surrey
I thought when Shaw Taylor said 'the beautiful Polesden Lacey' I thought Drive had suddenly got a female presenter with Mr B.
Yea he said that. Not that anyone cares..
We Had these in Australia...But with a 4 litre six cylinder engine
When you actually got proper info on cars ,not ott like it is now
The Mk4, the rarest of the Cortina's now
Iv just checked on the dvla site and that red cortina went to the scap yard around 24th August 1991.
@@Bruce-vq7ni Did quite well then, the blue Ghia was last taxed in 1986
@@Bruce-vq7ni probably took a detour to the banger races first!
I learnt to drive in my Dad's 'T' reg Signal Amber 2 litre GL Cortina back in 84'. When I passed my test he would let me borrow it on the weekends until I bought my first car, a Capri 1.6 s. The Cortina was a lovely car, I think it drove nicer than my Capri I bought later.
Great car the Cortina...
Knock knock
Who's there?
The patron saint of Llandudno
The patron saint of Llandudno who?
Tony Bastable
Why were there no shots of the interior? The review seems incomplete without a look at the inside.
When I was a young sprog these were very popular with the cabbies. They weren't too shabby for their time, just needed a five-speed box.
I like it when he kicks fuck out of the car test driving it, sadly he didnt here
2:59 hints at it, got a feeling a rwd live axle Ford was not suitable for pre watershed viewing or it ended up with him in a ditch ;)
He had this available but Iacocca decided easier just to put more chrome on something and give it a new name.
25 thou on the plugs and points unless you had the Bosch distributor at 18 thou
£3121 for the top of the range model is £19930 in todays money (August 2023) It goes to show that in real terms cars have become more expensive. The equivalent now would be closer to £40k. The base model comes in at around £12.5k in today's money. You cannot buy much for that now...
You're paying for the safety features, the emission standards, and better comfort. Give me a modern car over an old car anytime.
@@tiadaid I would take a modern car too (or at least a fairly modern one) Technology and better production methods has offset much of the cost of added features compared to older cars.
My dad had this and a princess plus others, we use to wash them every weekend starting when I was 5+, I use to sit inside and polish the entire car with furniture polish, I'd be in there for hours pretending to drive, when I started get 7,8,9 I was tall enough to use the pedals and he always bollocked me for flooding the engine because I'd be constantly pressing the accelerator while messing with the gears! He would also tell me of because he was a rep and I'd always re set the mileage everytime! The numbers use to irritate me and I just couldn't help preempt that button in every time, I remember his rover princess in a mustard colour with fake wood interior and electric windows! I thought we was rich because we had those and none of my mates/cousins dads had electric windows yet, I also remember at an early age, I was born in 76 and was always in shorts and I think It was very hot one year and the seats were a sort of black fake leather/plastic in one of his earlier cars and they would get so dam hot they would burn my legs! My favourite car though was his Capri he got when I was in my early teens I think, I remember he put a paving slab in the boot to weigh the back end down so it would grip better on corners and stop the back end from flying out! Amazing memories! I probably gonna binge a load of these old reviews now especially as my dad will have watched them when they was originally aired!
They were a pretty good little car. In Australia you could buy them with a 4.1 six cylinder engine. They went like hell!!
Britain: Engines will be a 1.3, a 1.6, a more powerful 1.6 and a 2.0 litre.
Australia: Stuff that! Just stick the 4.1 six from the Falcon in there.
Grandad had car just like this
Then got cream beige mk5
And then 2.0ghia
Every mot rubber bushes had tobe replaced
I liked the 2.3 v6 ghia
Ive driven the 2.8 v6 capri
Good solid cars with no bullshit.Miss the old Ford no nonsense cars.
Yep,no car designer in the 60s or 70s would have envisaged 40 or 50 years later cars would have daft things like electronic parking brakes and tyre pressure monitor Bluetooth on the tyre valves or hideous styling.
I loved the mk3 lovely car 2000gt
I had a canderman yellow R reg.
Looking back now I shouldn't have sold it for £50
I briefly owned a 2 litre Ghia which was powerful and comfortable. It made a sort of wooden ship noise when cornering and at the garage they informed me that the floor pan was just rust !
A friend took the engine and dropped it into his mk 2 escort.
When he gets out and the flimsy door creaks, then shuts it and it makes that cheap *Snap* noise 😂
At least doors like that made less noise, because modern cars sound literally like a bomb going off when my neighbours slam their doors shut. With my old Escort 1.3L Mk4, I could gently lean on the door with my hip and it would click shut, to avoid waking my family when I arrived at 2am. Not possible to do that these days, due to heavy doors and also having rough neighbours with their aggressive nature handling things.
@@EgoShredder and you could be killed if those doors got hit sideways by a kids tricycle...
@@TheAllMightyGodofCodYes the doors on my Escort could physically be bent using your bare hands. I was also once hit side on at speed, by a lunatic reversing at full speed out of a side road into the main road I was travelling on. He hit my driver's side wing on that occasion, as he reversed out of the side road and fully across the carriageway to my side. He had his entire family onboard too!
Just like a golf
@Retro Collected No I just wish people would learn to close doors with more care and consideration. Even when I have given someone a lift, they slam the door that hard and forget there is a person inside receiving the full force of the blast. Also within the car door there are electronic cables and other things easily damaged by excessive force. People have zero respect for anything these days, probably because things are too easy to obtain.
My mum had one of these in the 80s. The Reg was VOT 43T. It was a dark brown version with a vinyl roof. Just checked and it’s been off the road since 1990. Great memories though.
The 1300 must have been as slow as pig s**t up a hill
They were a bit underpowered but were quite low geared so hills weren’t that much of a problem. They worked bloody hard at motorway speeds though
yeah.. the OHV’s were dog shite. good in a fiesta.. but not in a cortina👎
Hills... in England?
i had a 1.6 payed £130 in 1990. great motor
@@stephenm6100 they were still very common then wern,t they? despite already being a banger racers favourite
I had a red GLS model W Reg , it looked great ( if you didn’t notice the filler) lovely comfortable interior, gear box that was super smooth, if you painted up the wheels ,silver and black and added spots on the front it looked even better , you could open it with practically any set of cortina keys😮 and it was quite thirsty on fuel , but I felt like a king driving it
I have to say in the wet this car if pushed highlighted reasons for improvement in road holding as it would loose grip then become impossible to control . A car like the rover sdi built in the same era was far superior which might explain why the police favoured them on their fleet usage.