How Times Have Changed,

many years ago I owned a Ford Cortina Mark III,

in yellow just like the one above the XL model with a 2 litre engine, great car, I had so many adventures in it, well the wheel may have turned full circle for any one wishing to purchase a Ford Cortina in the future, motoring magazine Auto Express, wanted to know how the car giant might transform the legendary family saloon car and re-invent it for today,


the brief for making this happen was from Auto Express Editor Steve Fowler who said, 'Ford is celebrating 50 years of the Cortina and we’ve got them to design a Cortina for 2012 – meeting all today’s regulations, but with the size and style of the original, we told him (Paul Wraith) we weren’t looking for a new take on the original but wanted him to stay as true to the design of the original as possible, but with every modern bit of technology and safety built in',

note the phrase, 'to stay as true to the design of the original as possible', the job was given to Ford Europe’s chief designer Paul Wraith, naturally changes had to be made for Health & Safety, but I have to say I can not see a single thing to link the two cars except the name, more than a million of the original Mk1 Cortina’s were built between 1962 and 1966 with total Cortina production topping nearly 4.3million by the time the Mk IV came to the end of the road in 1982, will this new Cortina hit the road soon? it is a matter of wait and see.