I think it hit the junkyard about 30 years ago.

That nosedive is also legendary.

The moon doesn't exist.

In the cruising shot beginning at 2:33 the camera car was bouncing like crazy too.

This is pure porn for those of us who get off on buttery smooth floating rides. Appears to ride smoother than my mid 90's Towncar and that makes me incredibly jealous.

brthdan Surprising that they'd have ever built a wagon that soft and floaty, since the whole point of a wagon is carrying loads.

Its still use as a case study for the NBA!

hahahahaah..excellent.

American suspensions!

😄😄 Thanks for a good laugh! Spot-on observation. Suspension made out of jiggly gel.

@@jessicah3450 this Ford Granada is nice suspension. Great classic wagon

@@jessicah3450 Ford Granada is autentic american wagon

I know lol

Damn car went sideways lol, imagine braking that hard from 70-80 mph lol

Just remember this is the same company that brought you the Pinto! lol

Dad is driving, you'll be okay

Scary was 10 years later when some teenager bought it for $900 with 'worn' shocks

I needed Dramamine to watch the whole review.

... and sea shanties for the road.

LOL

Now I know why I was car sick.

lol jinx

Same here. Born in '84

He the best since mwk begins 1980?❗

When he was born the Dead Sea was just sick.

Ford: please sell are pos. mgmt: sure....no problem..sigh.

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Ha ha....so it's not just me.

If the wagon was blacked out so we couldn't see what he was on about, you'd swear he was talking about a Mercedes or BMW

Of course comparing this car to other offerings in 1982, it probably wasn't that bad. Cars of that era were almost universally terrible.

Dying in laugh in 2022 :D Together with the braketest

Hey, it was a big deal in the early Reagan years.

No, they switched them out for the ones in Uncle Buck's car.

NESherv Ha!

Horrid bounce!

Lol..... I did notice it bouncing like a ball!

Good for a hearse, you gonna need one after ride in this thing

there was FLOATY/CREAM like the 70s cadlliacs - and then there was BOUNCY - this was a fucking bouncy castle!!

torres3800 People telling you that back in their day cars were way more reliable seem to forget tiny details like having to carry along half your car's worth in spare parts if you were planning to take a slightly longer trip.

mipmipmipmipmip Yes very true. I hate it when they tell me "they dont make them like they used to" Of course, you could travel on modern cars and don't have to be on the side of the road overheating.

At least it has a freaking spare tire, unlike many new cars in 2017.

@@mipmipmipmipmip Not at all...but in 1982, most part stores (and even many rural dealers) likely would not HAVE the then-new serpentine belt in stock. Most cars in that era (indeed, into the mid-80s) still used V-belts.

@Rich Santoro I have never had a car overheat unless there was something seriously wrong with the cooling system. 95 degrees...none of the many pre-1990 cars I have owned had any trouble.

I'm not! I had to buy an old-ish car to get that floaty ride back.

These cars, as a kid, literally made me sea sick.

@@Gazdatronik Lincoln Town Car to 2011.

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I like soft cars but these looks uncomfortably soft. Is that possible? We’re these dangerous due to their handling?

1982

@@hgpo27 Even in 1982 Honda and Toyota interior quality was lightyears ahead of Ford.

@@joe6096 don't see anything wrong with the interior

@@hgpo27 In this era, really beginning around 1977-78, Ford used very, VERY hard and cheap plastic that creaked and rattled even when brand new. They say it had no squeaks or rattles so maybe it just came right off the truck from the factory. Give it a month once it's gone over a few chuck holes. These cars were all rattle boxes. All the way through the mid-1990s they used that garbage plastic. Also, this was when Ford thought it was cute to have the horn be the wiper stalk (don't get me started on having both stalks on the same side of the steering column). You had to press the wiper stalk forward for the horn. The European influence was right, maybe they had the engineers drinking Absynthe from France.

Quality was NOT job 1

No kidding!! In the braking test it looked like a bloodhound..tail up, nose to the ground!

The new Lincoln’s have nothing close to a luxurious ride like this.

I didn't know getting seasick from a car was luxury... These are fox bodies though, so some Mustang parts should whip it into shape.

Did they fit shocks to that car or were they an option?😄

At a certain age this feature gains a good bit of appreciation. I love my 91 Colony Park. I wouldn't mind one of these fox bodies at all but I much prefer the straight six to the V.

Yeah. Definitely a granny car.

BCJDM Hahahahahahaha

It just needs an "I ❤ Bingo" bumper sticker.

Not just a Granny Wagon its a tank ;)

BCJDM me too x)

Did you see when they put the brakes on it teeter totted back and fourth LOL. Epic

Tom Hertz That's definitely the funniest part of the video. I like the part where it pulls to left when the brakes are locked up lol.

LS1 Corvette Fan And all this while the voiceover reports: "the drivers felt secure". If my 20 year old car wouls slide like that at an emergency stop, I feel like I need to visit the mechanic ASAP

Hers was an '83, correct?

The cars were too slow to have a proper crash

@Gator Johnso Slow means safe, even when you have no idea what's going on around you? You sound like a zombie.

@Gator Johnso what does slow and careful have to do with one another?

We actually knew how To drive, that is all

Because idiots couldn't text and drive back then.

LT[ur]D

@@digitalfootballer9032 I guess that's why our '77 racked up over 530,000 miles on the original engine. Idiot.....

@@67marlins81 I agree these thing are nothing more but tanks and are bulletproof I love these cars and I still occasionally see LTD's on the road today still no often but they are still around

@@zackstopzackstop8091 You got that right. Notice the digital dummy I corrected has since withdrawn his ignorant statement and gone back to hiding beneath his keyboard.....

@@67marlins81 Man that was fast

alfamonk At 4:05, car brakes and bounces and slides off-course uncontrollably: "the drivers felt secure and there was no fade"

1982 braking standards right there!!

yah these old reviews on bad cars are hilarious

waait! you get breaks...we are talking about ford right??? This is costly optional extra. No brakes came with the 65-ish mushtang.

Fred Flinstone, feet on asphalt breaks..!

i dont thinkk it had a 4.0 L6 pretty sure they all had3.8 essex v6

hmm i was wrong

:)

The '79 was the older, original Granada. It had a 3.3 liter, 200 CI 6 cylinder engine, and an optional 4.1 liter, 250 cubic inch 6 cylinder engine. That may have been what you had.

Wow...I thought NO ONE knew the optional engines on these crapboxes anymore. It was such a dark time in American car history.

not for a second - the creamy rides of 70s cadillacs were better than this bouncy castle

because they used to break all the time

​@@jonahpeacock2561 They still do, even more so now. 🙄

rip all of those

@@qrud Mercury also had a wagon version of the Cougar out at the same time, their second attempt since the Montego-based version in 1977. The 1982 Cougar wagon, inherited from the Zephyr series, was equally short-lived and hence replaced for 1983 by the new Marquis wagon, which forced the existing Panther-based Marquis to become Grand Marquis.

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LOL

Motor week :)

I like the guerrilla-style photography in that scene

Tom Hertz If that clip proves anything, it's the horrible suspension on the camera car.

***** Boat like LOL

Lmao I never made that connection

You should take a look at what was "mid sized" before 1975, hell, how about full sizes before '78

Pre-1977 wagons were aircraft carriers compared to that thing.

No, it's a midsize. (Note that when the Fairmont it's based on showed up, it was considered COMPACT.) Running gear the same as the 1981-88 Thunderbird.

105" wheelbase....is firmly in compact car territory by modern standards. A 2005 to 2012 Nissan Sentra has a very similar wheelbase and is only little bit smaller than this car (due to the short overhangs of the Nissan) That Granada was styled to look like a barge but was not large at all.

My 91 Colony Park is much larger but would gave been considered a midsize in the 70s.

Jag, BMW, and Mercedes still make em

+Eric Fortune Crossovers are a scam by car companies to make more money. Here's why: back in the day, you could buy something like an Escort or Focus wagon for only a small amount more than a sedan version of the same car, but today, an Escape is only the size of a theoretical Focus wagon, however, they charge you the price of a Fusion for it. An Edge, which is based on the Fusion, is way more than a Fusion. Then you also have the disadvantages of poorer fuel economy because they aren't as aerodynamic as cars, and the handling on them isn't as great either because they sit higher. And subjectively I find them ungainly and ugly.

Maestro_T Those Crossovers as well as a lot of modern are made out of Plastic.

Maestro_T There actually is a Focus wagon: media.caranddriver.com/images/media/51/2015-ford-focus-st-diesel-wagon-inline2-photo-658422-s-original.jpg

AE86 of Mt. Akina Nice. What kind of Ford Focas wagon is it.

Yes we have... "unique feature, the glass lifts separately from the rear door" oooooooohhhhhh

The Bel air wagon with the power rear window and drop down door beats it with cool points

I really dont think so. We've gone backwards. There are new cars out there that would be belittled by this granada. And this vehicle is just awful.

LRulesTheWorld A 5 year old used car from any brand with 70,000 would be better than this car when it was new.

MAN_ON_WHEELZ That was noteworthy in an era when 1 piece hatches were becoming common.

That car ain't soo bad. Worse could of been a 1976 pontiac. I think 1976 was the worst of the malaise era when the cars were still heavy, but still kept the iron duke engine that produced little torque.

Fairmont/Zephyr took some cues from European models (recall the Fox platform was named since the benchmark for the Fairmont was the Audi Fox).

Just in power ratings, the real rock bottom was 1979-1984 I can't name an American car from the era I would like to be seen on

XdreamR Nope. Peter's car is closer to a '79 LTD Country Squire

*hey lois*

Late 70s Ford LTD wagon

And the Belchers' car too

Yep it is the Griffin’s car exactly

Yes, for 1978 and '79 only; for 1980-81 the 302 was replaced by the smaller 255, which almost nobody seems to love. With the exception of the 1982-87 Lincoln Continental, the 302 would not appear in a Fox-body sedan again until the 1984-85 LTD LX.

The jokes just wrote themselves in this review...

Ford sure got a lot of miles out of the Squire name. For a while you could even get a Pinto Squire and later an Escort Squire. Shame they never did an Aerostar Squire to take on the woody Dodge and Plymouth minivans.

Granada refers to the Spanish city of the same name.

lol