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THE ONLY CAR I EVER BOUGHT NEW...

IT IS NOW WELL over two decades since the Ford Ka made its startling debut. 1996 wasn’t really a very good year for anything that I can recall, just bloody awful Britpop and an overwhelming blandness in most things. Cars were nice in the main, but mostly unmemorable.

Then the Ford Ka was launched on September 11th 1996, although eager buyers had to wait until early 1997 before they could get their hands on one. This was Ford’s first foray for decades into making interesting cars; the original Mondeo from

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