Ford didn’t make revolutionary cars in the early post war years (although this was soon to change) and their reputation was based on development rather than innovation. For example the Ford Anglia, for which the Escort was a replacement, was a solid, development model that sold and sold and sold throughout it’s quite long production run with little modification.
However, towards the end of the 1960s decade in 1968, the company produced a new model that really was a new development. The Ford Escort was a car that was to have quite an impact on the motor scene and was a car that most people, at sometime in their lives, have owned. So how about me? No, I’m afraid I never owned one but I have had the pleasure of driving several from time to time (including some quite hairy ones!).
Ford made various hot incarnations of the Escort but this article deals just with the base model and with the Mark 1 that ran from 1968 to 1974. I hope to cover the various other models in later articles.
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