Everyone has their favourite automotive Frankenstein; mixing powertrains, components and bodies to create some kind of fantastic four-wheeled freak. How about a VW Passat fitted with a twin-turbo W12, ...

Ford's Cortina was the most typical of typical English family sedans during the Sixties and Seventies. A right-hand drive, slightly smaller, Falcon. The Blue Oval was on a motorsport kick at the time ...

In the 1960s, North America got the Ford Mustang, and Europe... also got the Ford Mustang, sort of. But in addition to the quintessentially American pony car, Ford of Europe offered the Ford Cortina, ...

A car that was to become one of Ford's best-sellers in modern times and whose nameplate was to last for two decades started in development with the code-name Archbishop. It would be produced in four ...