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Cortina time warp: Ben Oliver drives the Ford Cortina Mk5

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Ben Oliver, 22 June 2012 12:25

I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline briefcase and I use the firm’s Cortina. By 1982, when it finally went out of production, the Ford Cortina had enjoyed a 20-year Tescopoly on British motoring. For ten years it was Britain’s best-selling car; in its best years nearly 200,000 were sold and one ...

Driving the classics: Lotus Cortina (1965) CAR review

3.5

Ben Barry, 08 May 2012 13:31

We deal with new cars here at CAR Online, but every now and again an oldie captures our attention and we just have to go and drive it. The Mk1 1965 Lotus Cortina you see here ticks that box, especially within the current context and the recent drama at Hethel. I’ve known Paul Wankle from Classic Cars Ltd in Pleasanton, ...

Georg Kacher looks back at the 2012 Detroit auto show

Georg Kacher, 06 February 2012 10:38

More glitz and glamour, plenty of new concepts, growing confidence and a greater diversity in terms of engineering and design - this was the essence of the 2012 Detroit auto show, aka the North American International Auto Show. Ford at the 2012 NAIAS The Big Three in particular had regained an encouraging portion of their former strength. Ford's new Fusion ...

Why Mondeo Man has got it right

Ben Whitworth, 27 April 2007 09:19

Give me a Ford over a BMW any day, argues Ben Whitworth Much to my disappointment, my eldest brother doesn't give a damn about cars. 'They’re just tools, something to get you from A to B,' he says flatly. 'Nothing more.' He drives a Mondeo. Before that he drove a Ford Probe. I rest my case. But the irony of ...