Worldcars granada

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When this car first parked on my street the light had fallen. By early morning it had driven off. Would I ever see it again? Some good fortune meant that I did, as the photos attest. The Granada is both banal and not uninteresting. And seldom even as a four door.

Worldcars granada

In , production switched entirely to Germany. The original version was replaced in by a second-generation model which was produced until From to , the Granada name was used, in the United Kingdom and Ireland only, for a third-generation model which was sold in other European markets as the Ford Scorpio and in North America as the Merkur Scorpio. At first, lower models in the range were called the Ford Consul. This may have been because of a lawsuit by Granada Group , a major British conglomerate of the time; however, their application for an injunction failed at appeal and they could not prevent Ford from registering the name Granada as a trademark [5] thus from on they were all called Granadas. The car soon became popular for taxi , fleet, and police use. It was also converted into limousine and hearse versions by the British companies Coleman Milne and Woodall Nicholson. German models employed a Ford Taunus V4 engine in 1. The V4 engine option was short lived - and was later replaced by the in-line "Pinto" TL-series unit in A two-door saloon joined the range in May , [8] reducing the entry-level advertised German price of the car by Marks, but the two-door saloon version was never produced nor officially sold in the UK. This was the reverse of the situation with the TC Cortina and Taunus , where the British model had the " coke-bottle " styling.

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During this time, performance, efficiency, handling, space utilization and essentially all practical or objective qualities were thrown out the executive suite window in favor of padded tops, opera windows, tufted velour, plastiwood, stand-up hood ornaments and other tacky accouterments. But it took no less then three previous posts here to hunt it down, although I should have really known all along. All hail the victor, a triumph of fluff, feebleness and imitation style over substance, engineering and performance. The Granada optional std. The 49 state version made a whopping 72 hp at rpm. These are truly astounding figures, right from the late s, especially compared to what the Japanese and European competitors were able to muster, never mind the American competition. Adding almost a liter of displacement somehow knocked off several horsepower.

Worldcars granada

No vehicle better sums up the pluses and minuses of Malaise Era Detroit machinery to me— yes, there were pluses— than the Ford Granada that my parents bought in from Hertz. As I recall, it never managed to top 20 MPG in super-stingy highway driving cue the enraged comments from readers whose Granadas habitually knocked off 38 MPG with the air-conditioning on , and nobody in my family wanted to know what its city mileage really was cue the enraged comments from readers whose Granadas beat Honda Insights in city fuel economy. Thing is, the Ramada was ugly and slow and uncomfortable and leaked in the rain and wandered all over the highway and sucked gas, but it always ran.

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Foxy Posted a lot. Type your email… Subscribe. Would anyone go for it and why not if it had all the impracticality of an Audi A5 but similar poke? Pony2 Pickup According to Liepedia the Amazon breakdown is:. Taunus P1. Porter HD Pony2 Lawsy Posted a lot. This model used the same 2. The only one that appeals to me is the mk2 Granny 2 door.

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There were also a number of detail improvements under the shell; the gearbox, clutch, and brakes were revised, the semi-trailing arm rear suspension geometry was altered, and variable rate rear springs became standard across the range. I would barely look twice at a 4 door though. Small family car. Ford automobile timeline, European market , s—s — next ». The interior remained largely the same, apart from detail changes such as new trim materials and steering wheels - the dashboard layout was altered with the heater controls now oriented vertically next to the instrument cluster to make space for the optional trip computer, and higher models in the range now featured the electronic check-light system first seen on the Escort MkIII housed within an aircraft style overhead console above the rear view mirror. UK and Irish spec 2. Cortina Mk II. The E21 is ornate in this regard. BenzBoy Probably posted too much. Pilot E71A. Can anyone explain the northern European fixation with large two door saloons? Squire E. Taunus P3. Ford Australia President Brian Inglis had taken particular interest in the development of the forthcoming Granada, and in arranged for a key member of Ford of Europe's design team, Trevor Creed, to produce a Falcon clay that reflected its design.