Ford Cortina

The Cortina was Ford's medium family car for Britain and the Commonwealth, built at Dagenham from 1962 until 1982 and named for the Italian ski resort that hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics. It was a conventional rear wheel drive saloon and estate, offered through five generations, and from 1970 it shared its platform with the German Taunus. It was Britain's best selling car for most of the 1970s and sold more than 2.8 million units there over its twenty year run. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 5 generations: the Mark I (1962 to 1965); the Mark II (1966 to 1969); the Mark III (1970 to 1975); the Mark IV (1976 to 1978); the Mark V (1979 to 1982).