Launched in 1962, the Cortina went on to become one of Ford's most iconic European nameplates. But more importantly, it spawned the Lotus Cortina, a race-prepped version engineered by Colin Chapman, ...

Being a global player and all, Ford was forced over over the years to make models that were greatly successful in some parts of the world, and entirely absent in others. It still does so to this day, ...

While Ford has offered innumerable U.S.-market sporty models over the years, only the Mustang has really entered our public consciousness. Not so on the other side of the Atlantic, where the “fast ...

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Ford and Lotus held hands for a brief time during the previous century, with their relationship resulting in the birth of the first-gen Lotus Cortina. Assembled in the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1970 ...

Jonathan loves just about anything with a motor and a steering wheel. As a kid, Jonathan collected any kind of toy car he could lay his hands on, and begged his parents to take him to the monster ...

According to its seller, today's Nice Price or No Dice Cortina GT is "mostly there." As an obvious project car, we'll need to decide if it's worth saving and, if so, at what cost. One of the main ...

Forget the little yellow badge on the rear quarter panel - this isn't an original Ford Cortina Lotus. It's got the same sweet two-tone red-on-gold color scheme found on some real Lotus Cortinas, and a ...

We all know the score when it comes to an old Ford these days. It’ll be one of those cars loved by many back in the day (even those that weren’t great), traded for a pittance and sufficiently ...

The post My First Car: The Go-Betweens’ Lindy Morrison’s 1965 Ford Cortina appeared first on Drive. Lindy Morrison, best known as the drummer of Australian band The Go-Betweens in the 1980s, bought ...