Ever wondered what Life on Mars crossed with Mad Max might look like? Here's your answer. Think fast Cortinas and there’s only one answer: Lotus. It’s the icon of five generations of Ford’s best-selling saloon, and a tin-top racing hero.
Ever wondered what Life on Mars crossed with Mad Max might look like? Here's your answerThink fast Cortinas and there’s only one answer: Lotus. It’s the icon of five generations of Ford ’s best-selling saloon, and a tin-top racing hero. Even the less popular Cortina Lotus that came with the MkII is still one of the better-recognised fast Ford s out there. From the Mk3 onwards, there was never really a proper performance flagship of the ‘Tina from Ford (though the Savage builds continued).
Or not for the UK, at least - there was a 3.0-litre V6 for South Africa and everything up to a 4.1-litre straight six in Australian cars. And in Ford’s defence, the V6 offered here didn’t do brilliantly: ‘2.3-litre Cortinas never sold particularly well in the UK’, says one well-known online encyclopedia. So the overwhelming majority of Cortinas in the UK are four-cylinder. But we all have a favourite V6-powered Ford, be it a Capri, Granada, Sierra, Mondeo or, um, Probe. Because they were great. Now there might be a new one, more potent than all of the
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