You coild do that on old SAABs also:)

As I was a kid my mother drove a Mazda 323 from the 80es. One day we were at the supermarket she locked the key in the trunk. I dunno how excactly, because this was before mobile phones, but we managed to message my father to come from work and bring us the second key. Meanwhile a friend of my mom joined us and as my dad arrived he had the idea we should try just for fun the key of her car, which was a VW Jetta iirc. The Mazda trunk opened with the Jetta key… 🙄

whoever is stealing your Granada probably needs it more than you.

How did Ford keep that key design for SO Long, 1985 till the Mk3 Transit in 2013? they should've obviously seen the security risks and returned back to the conventional key design.

Yes a better time .. had a mk2 a lovely car. Should have kept it.. didn't make the same mistake again have had my mk3 mondeo titanium x a lovely car all the power that you need after 17 years and nearly one hundred thousand on the clock still starts on the button..

Too much American influence killed Ford in Europe, and in a way led to the demise of Ford Australia. You just have to look at US Ford products...a design free and taste free zone. Yuk!! So much potential....look how they RUINED the Mustang for years and turned it into a glorified saloon car, after the brilliant Lee Iacocca initial design. Ford US is a just a disaster.

The looks were the best part of the American Granada, it was just a warmed-over 1960 Falcon under the skin. The Chevy Nova was an objectively better car.

It’s best to forget every 1970’s American Ford or GM vehicle that wasn’t a muscle car. They are all just so ugly.

@@bsrbck The Zephyr wasn't a 70s car tho

@BEST the actual reason FoMoCo isn’t bankrupt is because of the Taurus, if the Taurus had failed not even Ford Europe would be able to save Ford from going under due to how much money Ford had been loosing since the oil crisis.

Whats ironic is the 70s US Granada shown in this video was heavily based on the Mercedes 450SE design of the time, and was even directly compared to a Mercedes in the advertising.

Yep had one in my younger day's it was a great car, never had power steering before then...

every day at scorpio 98 , Odessa Ukraine:)

Андрей Рачинский , братан !!!! Я с Павлограда !

все эти машины в вашей ukraine осели, мне скорп 2 достался. И конечно с территорий бывшей Украине

Хочу покупать как первую машину)) на что посоветуешь обратить внимание? Привет из Киева)

FunnySimbaOne , привет , ищи живой кузов (не гнилой) и двиг рядный 2.0 L ( проблем с запчастями нет ) По ходовой и т.п. новые запчасти не проблема . Будет нужно - дам контакты .

Rapidly. It’s taken over my television viewing.

Going from 0-60 like a Morris 1000

Sure is. Top gear is a joke now, just a load of middle aged men loafing about trying to be funny. I watch auto mundial for new car news on itv4, again more about cars in a 25 min episode than a whole series of joke gear

Agree

This series is like Donut Media's Up To Speed but for grown ups (no hate for UTS, I love James and I hope it will come back soon).

LOL !!! "Granada" has never meant "luxury" or "big car" in USA !!! It meant lowest priced mid sized car! Priced above it was the Mercury Monarch/Cougar versions and further above that the Lincoln Versailles 'luxury' version that everyone knew was still a Granada in the middle with different front and rear despite being highest priced Ford car... engines were 3.3L and 4.1L straight 6, 5.0L, and 5.8L V8s...

@@BuzzLOLOL in America it was a totally different car to the rest of the world, the same as how the Falcon was a compact in the states but a large family car in Australia and South Africa

@@FrndsCallMeDaz - Video and text starts off saying what Granada was in North America, which was far from true. Looks like Europe and USA Granada were similar after 1975 for a few years.

The Capri was a lovely car the used to come in to the port of cork in the 80s just fell in love with them👍

They looked old and Soviet-like to my French eyes in the 1980's, compared to anything by BMW or even French cars. In fact, they simply looked American, and we were not used to that, and not ready for this kind of cars.

I miss the chrome and when the Ghia cars stood out from the basic L and GL models.

Yeah even the Fiesta ghia was clearly special compared to the pop plus models during the 80s

Ford product placement was second to none.

I actually sat in the both cars from the sweeney as a teenager my mates dad worked for the production company as a stunt driver.

Now I'm retired I love to watch those programmes. Not just Granada and Cortina Ghia's I've had, but the other cars that incidentally appeared in the show too.

@@norfener And of course the MK2 Jags that were always getting wrote off in the car chases.

@HEY 4Q2 R$2000

That was an interesting anecdote. The USA version was known for a false veneer of smoothness on good roads that fell to pieces once you hit a few potholes, with the suspension bottoming out loudly. But it was so floaty that no one would be conned into trying anything too daring with it; I don't think many of them ended up in ditches, at least not because of accidents.

We averaged 25 mpg just with average driving. That dropped to 16 with a 4-berth caravan on the back.

THAT never happened in the Sweeney police TV Series! Probably edited out.

Didn't Fords odometers go zero instead of 100 000km or miles back then? So no turning back was needed, it was "automatic". :)

Gov'ner.

Your nicked !!

Proper policing.Forcing people to sign confessions by planting evidence.

@@michaelscales5996 and a good old kicking if you started any of yer shite.

'Get yer trahsers on, yer nicked!"

I had a 3 Ltr Ghia Coupe when i was in my early 20's When the lottery win comes in another one will be the first car i buy. Loved it and miss it

many of my cars were Ford Falcons,here in Aust.

UK too!

Us aussies wanted to export the Falcon overseas in the late 1980’s. Ford Australia even went to Ford America asking for money to actually do it. Unfortunately Ford Australia was also asking for money to design and build the next model at the same time. Ford USA told Ford Australia that they will only give enough funding for just one of those ideas and Ford Australia had to choose which one. Either design the EA Falcon or start exporting the now obsolete XF Falcon with just a minor facelift If they were lucky.

The Ford Barra motor fitted to the last of Aussie Falcons was an excellent motor for tuning. A rival of the Toyota 2JZ and the Nissan RB engines

Regarding the looks I don't think it was too shabby, at least it was on par with the Mercedes E-Class of the same era. I owned a 1996 Scorpio Estate up until 2016. It was a great car with the largest load area I have ever seen in a passenger car - 2.3 x 1.3 meters with the rear seats folded down. Needed to transport matresses, beer garden tables or 20 crates of beer? No problem - just open the rear hatch and in with the stuff. Needed a place to sleep after a party or concert? No problem - inflate your air matress, roll out your sleeping bag and ready was a comfy makeshift camper. My car also had a trailer hitch. With its 2.3 l, 147 hp in-line four-cylinder engine, it had no problem pulling a 1.7 tonne caravan across the Dolomites, no matter the incline. The only problem with the car was that it guzzled petrol like it was free - an average of 13.7 litres per 100 km (20.62 miles per gallon UK or 17.2 mpg US) in city traffic, which would be completely unthinkable today and would probably bankrupt me at the moment. But at the time it was great.

Ours wasn't on the road by the time I'd passed my test but I drove it on private land. It had a water problem in Scotland - boiled up and probably cracked a cylinder head as it used water after that.

pmailkeey 🧱👍🏽

NHK 295M wasn't a Granada it was the lower spec Consul as would be par for the time with British police cars. Top level engines suspension and brakes but poverty spec interiors.www.imcdb.org/v028751.html While we're at it Only Fools And Horses used a Reliant Regal Supervan III not a sodding Reliant Robin! nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/vehicle-collection/reliant-regal/

Volvo is now a Chinese car. BEWARE!

Ford bought Volvo because the Ford Motor Company wanted to build-up a Prestige Auto Group, know as PAG, it also acquired Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin, but, unfortunately Ford management knew nothing of how to operate in the high end of the market, and failed totally, off-loading each company at a loss.

In Taiwan, Granada was equipped with 2.8 liter engine with rather spacious compartment to local family then. Granada's 2.8 liter engine enable the car to be chosen as the runaway option by local gangsters. The comfort inside makes Granada preferred over BMW.

If Ford were to bring back the Mark 1 Granada and Mark 3 Cortina, I bet they would sell. I'd love one myself.

@@Glamrockqueen I agree. Although it's been off the road for 5 years I got lots of smiles, waves and comments from people when I had my Mk3 Cortina out for a drive.

They were really smart

Ditto Mk1 Escort..... but I guess none would meet EU road safety standards now !

@@millomweb in my opinion cars are now much worse in what concerns to safety but i never crashed a car all my life but see others crashing and it´s not a sight to see even after years some images come back to my mind, but today if one crashes with most of the cars from comercial brands it´s certain death and when cars had bumpers and made of metal if at high speed the efect is similar but when talking about mercedes or bmw´s it ´s incredible how a front colision at 60 miles an hour or 100 km´s an hour the front part of the cars dissa pear but from the firewall to the back in a mercedes you see the dash one finger moved from the front window and in a bmw 2 or 3 fingers moved but all inside is ok just people a bit confused by the strong impact, but talking at the maximum speed of 40 or 50 km´s /hour most of new car seemed to be broken into litle pieces as the people inside you can´t even guess what was the car all made into litle pieces, as an example about 4 years ago i saw two citröen´s C2 ,this told by the emergency rescuers litle bit´s of flesh through out 50 meters of road and a sniker other was a girl i knew since i was 14 crashed into a truck not at high speed and she was with her mother both died they were going to celebrate her birthday with his father at the time working has an health minister of the country ,what makes me sick is the fact that i always see her driving good 2nd hand cars and for the first time i saw her in a new C2 ,that´s how new cars are improved in safety ,i don´t mention Volvo´s or Saab´s because i never saw one crash, i owned a 84 Volvo 740 if it´s really the model or 744 and a saab 9000 turbo and either than mercedes or bmw they were very safe while driving them the same can not say about some other brands , i think metal was better than plastic as a material used in new cars body and even damgerouse the all front part of the car but as some say´s money talks people listen safety is not 1st (wich i think it should) first ecomical reasons , regards

100% Agree :-)

If nobody wanted to buy them for restoration then just use them for bangers. Some year's ago classic car people were whining on about the banger drivers ,but one classic car had been repeatedly advertised for sale in classic car magazines etc at below market prices for nearly a year with nobody showing any interest in it so it was used for banger racing. And you guessed it some classic boy's were whining.

i loved my mk2 escort

Granada wasn't a good car at all! Cheap allround

Carpocalypse? The original Mad Max film had that covered and then some... Max Rockatansky's mid-'70s Ford Falcon coupe aka the V8 Interceptor. A classic car from a classic Aussie film. Ditto for the other XA & XB Falcons (and the Holden Monaro that the Night Rider stole) involved in that immortal car chase at the beginning of the film. Memories... "I am the Night Rider! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine! I'm a rocker, I'm a roller, I'm an out-of-controller!"

I had a Cortina, an Escort and a Capri. Was desperate to bag a Granada back in the day but by the mid nineties they were as rare as hens teeth. My cousin had two. The first one was the 2.3 Ghia "Sweeney" model. An absolute thing of beauty that drove like a limousine. Ford absolutely owned the 80s but let it slip. Real shame

Excuse me, it was a 2.8 ghia

Certainly reminds me of hoping I could watch Reagan and Carter with my old school mates. When tv was worth watching. My Uncle had a mark 1 Capri with a vinyl roof at the time!

🤣 I'm working in the Dagenham engine plant right now replying to your comment while turning out panther diesel engines

Back then Ford and Rover were as good as BMW/Audi. The problem was that both Britain and UK opened up their market places and the German and Japanese cars could out compete Native cars.

@Nigel Rowe That was not market forces. It was the UK government planning their economy. The US has done the exact same thing. It allowed Japanese cars into the market and then over regulated the US car industry to the point it could not compete. If it was real market forces those foreign manufacturers would not be able to out compete.

@ferkemall The Royale was the Vauxhall badged version of the Monza. I think it may have had the even more potent 3.0i unit in for the final year before being merged into the Opel badged Monza.

@@bighands69 people preferred German luxury cars, and still do.

@@adamw2911 The Royale Coupé was the Vauxhall-badged version of the Monza, there was also the Royale saloon which was the rebadged version of the Senator. I once went on a trip to Skegness in one in the 90s, compared to my dad's Morris Ital it was like taking a ride in an alien spaceship.

I had a white 2.9 Scorpio...... was asked twice to use it as a wedding car..

Had a '75 with the 302 and 3 speed, Cragar S/S all around, How many people thought you put the 3 speed in it ?

@@ericwsmith7722 My sister had a 1975 with the 302 and a 3 speed manual floor shift, I loved that car!

Pitch Black windows ?

Still watching that today in September 2019, love the escorts 2000 and the capri 3 litre

The car smashing through the window was a Consul !!

I always like that they have accessable cars. Not lotus,Astons and jags. Accessible, low key cars that wouldn't draw attention..

Done.

Which Dealership? I was wit Ford motor Co and later invicta motor co. Canterbury.

Rust is a pretty big fault in my eyes.

We had a brake disc fail - cracked - and a coolant problem latterly. Got rid of it years ago - but we still have some rust ! (rear suspension/axles)

Cory Turner Talks Cars For real, I had the American Granada but the UK version looks way better.

Those Ghia seats were on par with Saab, nothing, even S-class could match their butthugging form.

Quite LX of you to say.

You were right. It WAS!!

Yes - Ford of SA did some wonderfully mad things. I notice they also made a mad Escort!

In the '80s BMW SA did a 333i

There is A tuning and styling company called Smoke'em garage around the corner from me that are recreating the Bazil Green Perana kit in Paarden Eiland Cape Town South Africa, So glad I am not the only South African on here anymore man ! Isn't this channel the best ?

@@BigCar2 ... Perana were like a low volume manufacturer of sorts. Their vehicles were Ford approved and sold through Ford dealerships. The cars of theirs which I'm aware of are V6 powered Mk II Cortinas, V8 Capris and the V8 Granada Coupes.

@kevin paul halliday .. The only "XR8" which I'm aware of are the Australian Ford Falcon XR8's. These were not "made" by Perana, or indeed in South Africa. They were made only in Australia. Obviously, a 5.0 litre or 5.4 litre V8 is always going to produce a lot more torque than a turbosupercharged four cylinder.

My first drive too. I was nicked driving my dad's mkII at 15. The police piled 5 of us into the back of a Mini Metro jam sandwich. My dad wasn't happy when he had to ride his bicycle to the police station at 4:30 am on a Sunday morning. :)

Yep my ex worked at the Ford head office in Essex UK and she had the 24v 2.9 estate ........... wonderful car..

Well there you go, that told us; eloquence personified.

@Bigg Papa you just need your eyes ripping out fukkin reject

Cosworth Shithouse ..you seen how much they are ?? No because you are a Shithouse

I have a 1985 zcorpio its great only do ne 35000 miles neil

Is the film speeded up for effect? It was a common trick in 70s TV. Look at how fast the water and spray from the puddle disperse. It seems unnaturally quick to me, though I could be' mistaken.

as a fellow BR I immediately noticed the similarities

You should never apologise for liking something. It's better in life to like something than to hate it.

I've had a few of the 24v BOA powered grannies awesome engine, better with a manual gearbox and chucked into a Sierra or Cortina but still good in the Granny. ;) I also had a really rare Mk2 2.8i Ghia S, 4 speed manual and LSD from the factory, that was quite a nice car.

if everyone would drive the same etc. the same etc. the word would be a pretty boring place the difference to the fun and something to talk/discuss about

Glad you had a soft spot for the Scorpio estate. There are a number of reasons why we designed and developed the Scorpio the way it is, but that's for another day ...