Very yellow, very cool, and almost famous - it would've appeared in Life on Mars were it not for a snapped cambelt...
for some the key model names from its best-sellers list, including Cortina, Granada, Escort, Capri and Orion, today's spotted is a little reminder of one of those. There isn't a flavour of Ford Cortina that I don't have a fondness for. The Mk1 always reminds me of the GT my old man bought new, the Mk2 my neighbour's 1600E - which I eyed up longingly from over the hedge - while the first car I bought was nearly a Mk5 1.6 Crusader from Enfield Car Auctions.
I've always assumed that the Mk3 was significantly longer than the models that preceded it. It certainly looked that way whenever I saw one in the flesh. But I've just learned that's a load of codswallop: it was actually fractionally shorter than the Mk2, although we're talking 6mm. It was a lot wider , though, and had a bigger wheelbase .
If this sounds like it's adding up to a runaway sales success when the Mk3 hit the showrooms in 1970, it wasn't. At the start of its life it was criticised for being too soft, too bouncy, with handling that was blighted by too much understeer. Oh, and there was too much wind noise, caused by ill-fitting doors. It didn't help that early on production was curtailed by a 10-week strike. By 1971 it was a different story.
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