CONSUL AND GRANADA 1972-84
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It’s not often that Ford drop the ball and take a financial battering, but Ford of Britain managed this three times in the 1960s. First was the 1961 Classic – not a bad car, but one that was already out of date when launched, offering 1950s Americana just a year before cars like the Morris 1100 and indeed the Cortina. The Corsair came next – again good, but not a rousing sales success because it offered little over a 1500 Cortina Super, and the 2000E was Ford overreaching itself trying to compete with executive saloons from Rover and Triumph.
It was the 1966 Mk4 Zephyr and Zodiac that did Ford’s image the most damage, though. Whilst these cars had good points – they were cheap for the size, rode quite well in
