Ford Conquistador

The Ford Conquistador was an upper mid-size passenger car sold under the Ford name in Venezuela and built in two generations. It was assembled at Barcelona, Venezuela, by Consorcio Inversionista Fabril, a local company that produced cars and commercial vehicles for Ford from about 1978 or 1979 until 1989. The Conquistador was not a separate design: each generation matched a car from the United States. The first generation, listed as running from 1978 to 1984, corresponded to the Mercury Marquis, and the second, listed as 1984 to 1989, to the Mercury Grand Marquis. German and Italian reference articles on those Mercury cars give the same account, and the Italian one adds that the Grand Marquis was sold as the Ford Grand Marquis in Mexico. No production figure for the Venezuelan cars is stated in the sources read.