After Ford UK’s CEO, Sir Patrick Hennessy, discovered in 1960 that Ford of Germany had been gifted an unused front-drive Detroit compact (“Project Cardinal” – the Taunus 12M), he convinced Dearborn to allow Dagenham to…
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Peak Rover: The P5B Coupe
The term “4-door Coupe” is overused today to the point of being meaningless, but for decades there was only one car that used this term and actually pulled it off. Rover’s P5 Coupe was an…
Innocenti Mini: The Italian Jobs
The Minis blasting through Turin’s streets in The Italian Job were from BMC (who reportedly supplied only the bare minimum, so the production had to buy more) and shipped in from the U.K.; but Italy…
Detroit via Dagenham: The Ford Consul Capri
The Ford Capri is no stranger to these pages – but this is a very different type of Capri. Eight years before it’s famous successor Ford of Britian debuted the Ford Consul Capri, a more…