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Cortina and pickup
1981 Cortina Mark V pickup
* Ford 1 ton pickup ( Cortina Mk3 + Mk4 based ) 1974 to 1985.

Cortina and was
The company's first model, the Cortina, was released in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968.
Under Murphy's orders, Moore destroyed the taxi and bought a yellow Ford Cortina, which was to be used in subsequent murders.
The " Cortina Wars " also caused disturbances, especially when Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, on his way to a robbery, was intercepted by a force of Texas Rangersqv.
Albertville was selected as host in 1986, beating Sofia, Falun, Lillehammer, Cortina d ' Ampezzo, Anchorage and Berchtesgaden.
Later, Cortina d ' Ampezzo was awarded the 1956 Games, and Lake Placid — which had hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics — was chosen to host the 1980 Winter Games.
Cosworth began its association with Lotus Cars by work on the longer stroke version of the Kent, which had a capacity of and was used in the Lotus 7. and units were developed in 1963 for use in Formula B and sports car racing, and a twin overhead camshaft version was developed to power the Lotus Cortina.
A year before the introduction of the MAE the SCA was introduced, a 1000 cc engine based on a Ford Cortina 116E block that raced in Formula 2, and featured the first totally Cosworth-designed head.
The Cortina engine was also the basis for the FVA, an F2 engine introduced in 1966, and developed under the same contract as the DFV, for the new 1. 6-litre engine rules.
By 1973, however, the Victor was losing sales in a market that was becoming increasingly dominated by the Ford Cortina.
Vauxhall's sales began to increase in 1975, with the launch of two important new models – the Chevette, a small three-door hatchback that was the first car of its kind to be built in Britain, the Chevette carrying the name Opel Kadett in Europe, and Chevrolet Chevette and in the US and Canadian markets ; and the Cavalier ( Opel Ascona elsewhere ), a stylish four-door saloon designed to compete head-to-head with the all-conquering Ford Cortina.
The host was selected in 1981 after having beat Falun, Sweden and Cortina d ' Ampezzo, Italy.
In 1970 a new Taunus, the Taunus Cortina ( TC ), was introduced, as a two-or four-door sedan, station wagon ( or Turnier ) and coupé.
Also, the Taunus was available as a coupe, a bodystyle that the Cortina was never made in.
From 1976 Taunus and Cortina models were identical in all but name, ' Taunus ' being the name used in left hand drive ( LHD ) markets, and ' Cortina ' in right hand drive ones, although the Cortina name was used in LHD South Korea and Taiwan.
The Ford Taunus TC series was conceived in the late 1960s to be a " world car " alongside its technical sibling the Cortina Mk III, with construction and design work taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Taunus / Cortina was replaced in Europe by the Sierra in late 1982.
The Sierra carried over the Cortina / Taunus OHC Pinto Engines and RWD configuration but was otherwise an all new car with independent suspension all round.
The " TC2 "/ 1976-78 Cortina Mk 4 was never produced, switching instead to the " TC3 "/ Cortina 80 ( late mk IV ) bodies directly and also introducing the uniquely Argentine facelift-version of the " TC1 " fastback coupe with the " TC3 " nose and its own taillights only found on this version.

Cortina and exported
A small number were exported to Japan, with the rear of the bodyshell compressed to make it narrower — this was because cars in Japan were taxed on exterior dimensions, and having a narrower body enabled the Cortina to avoid being heavily taxed.
Compared with Britain and many other countries where the Cortina was originally exported, in New Zealand it has a far superior survival rate due to the climate being far drier and more favorable to the preservation of rust-free classic cars.

Cortina and UK
Ford UK originally wanted to call it something other than Cortina, but the name stuck.
Four-speed manual transmissions were by now almost universally offered in the UK for this class of car, and contemporary road tests commented on the rather large gap between second and third gear, and the resulting temptation to slip the clutch when accelerating through the gears in the smaller-engined cars: it was presumably in tacit acknowledgment of the car's marginal power-to-weight ratio that Ford no longer offered the automatic transmission option with the smallest 1298 cc-engined Cortina.
However, although the updated Taunus was introduced to Continental Europe in January 1976, Ford were able to continue selling the Cortina Mark III in undiminished numbers in the UK until they were ready to launch its successor as the Dagenham built Cortina Mark IV, which went on sale on 29 September 1976.
The Cortina was also a popular car in UK Banger racing in the late ' 80s and throughout the 90's proving to be a competitive car and also lasting it out in Demolition Derbys.
This reached near-hysterical heights at one point with UK press making a report that Ford would reintroduce the previous Cortina model out of desperation.
The UK tax system meant that sales to company car fleets comprised a larger proportion of the overall market-especially for middle-weight saloons-than elsewhere in Europe: the Ford Cortina Mk II had been replaced by the Ford Cortina Mk III in 1970, but in the eyes of the all important company car fleet managers the newer Cortina never quite matched the earlier car for reliability, notably in respect of problems with its cable clutch and with camshaft wear in the 1. 6 and 2. 0 litre ohc units.
In the UK, the new Cavalier was a huge success and challenged the supremacy of the Ford Cortina as the company car of choice.
In the UK and Ireland, following the intial lukewarm reception to the Sierra-something which had been attributed to the loss of the Cortina name-Ford took no chances and instead retained the Granada name in those markets, making the Scorpio effectively a Mk III Granada.
In its 13-year production run, its UK market contemporaries included the Ford Cortina, Morris Marina and Vauxhall Victor, although model positioning within the range meant competition with some larger cars as well, including the BMC ADO17 ( that is, in plain English, the Austin ( etc.
The Ford Pinto engine though was successful in European Fords for twenty years, in successive mid and large European sized mainstay models of the ; UK Ford Cortina, German Ford Taunus, the Ford Sierra, and the Ford Granada amongst others.
Other changes included twin Keihin carburettors ( the Ballade had only a single carburettor ), the mirrors were situated on the doors, the independent front and rear MacPherson strut suspension was tweaked for the UK market and the seats were based on Ford Cortina frames.
The Escort was a commercial success in many parts of western Europe, but nowhere more than in the UK, where the national best seller of the 1960s, BMC's Austin / Morris 1100 was beginning to show its age while Ford's own Cortina had grown, both in dimension and in price, beyond the market niche at which it had originally been pitched.
The 2. 0 L RS2000 version, with its distinctively slanted polyurethane nose, and featuring the Pinto engine from the Cortina, was announced in the UK in March 1975 and introduced in Germany in August 1975, being reportedly produced in both countries.

Cortina and form
In the context of BMC's wide, complex, and expensive-to-produce model range, Ford's conventionally-designed Cortina challenging for the number one spot in the domestic market, and the heavy reliance of the British economy on motor vehicle production, in 1968 the Government brokered the merger of the successful Leyland-Triumph-Rover and the struggling BMH, to form Europe's fourth-largest car maker, the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BLMC ).
The car was initially offered with the larger, single carburettor, 1. 5 L Kent engine that was also used in the smaller Ford Cortina, in standard and GT form.
He also was a bobsleigh runner, recruiting several cousins in order to form Spain's first bobsleigh team for the 1956 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d ' Ampezzo

Cortina and Ford
* October 13 – The Ford Sierra is launched in Europe, replacing the Ford Cortina
Shortly after, Ford of Britain first hired Lotus to create a high-performance version of their Cortina family car, then in 1968 launched the Escort Twin Cam, one of the most successful rally cars of its era.
The car described in the Champion book is built using parts from a Mk1 or Mk2 Ford Escort with front spindles from Ford Cortina.
As the popularity of smaller Japanese imports from Toyota and Datsun increased throughout the 1960s, Ford North America responded by introducing the Ford Cortina from Ford of Europe as a captive import.
From 1977, they assembled Ford Cortina station wagons under contract-the loss of this contract led to the closure of the factory.
The car's commercial success has subsequently been overshadowed by the even greater sales achieved by the Cortina: in 1960, when 191, 752 Anglias left Ford's Dagenham plant in the 105E's first full production year, it set a new production-volume record for the Ford Motor Company.
The Anglia Super introduced in September 1962 for the 1963 model year shared the longer stroke 1198 cc version of the Ford Kent 997 cc engine of the newly introduced Ford Cortina.
* Lotus 28 ( 1963 – 1966 ): Lotus version of the Ford Cortina street / racer
This threesome, along with Hyacinth's senile father, are forever turning up inconveniently ( usually in their clapped out Ford Cortina Mk IV-which always makes a characteristic backfire when it pulls up ) and embarrassing Hyacinth, who goes to great lengths to avoid them (" Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight!
Onslow drives a clapped-out 1978 Ford Cortina ( registration plate VSD 389S ) that backfires loudly every time it starts or stops, embarrassing Hyacinth, and frequently crushing her hopes of creating a perfect impression with new people.
He is remembered for his ability to drive and win in all types of cars and series, including a Lotus-Cortina, with which he won the 1964 British Touring Car Championship ; IndyCar ; NASCAR, driving a Ford Galaxie for the Holman Moody team ; Rallying, where he took part in the 1966 RAC Rally of Great Britain in a Lotus Cortina ; and sports cars.
Models from 1970 onward were similar to the Ford Cortina in the United Kingdom.
The major components of the European Taunus " TC2 "/" TC3 " and Cortina Mk 4 ( of the 1979-82 series often referred to as Mk 5 although that has never been the official term ) remained basically the same through the entire production run only receiving minor body changes with the biggest re-engineering in the 1979 model year, which involved a facelift ( identical to the Ford Cortina Mk 5 update ).

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