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• The last golden-ish age of car choice? 13 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  (flat 4) Austin 1100 (hydrolastic suspension and great packaging) Citroen GS (air-cooled flat 4 and hydropneumatic suspension) Daf 66 (continuously-variable automatic transmission via rubber belts) Fiat 128 (transverse engine with end-on gearbox) Ford Escort/Cortina (utterly conventional) Hillman Imp
• Ford Mondeo IV (2007 - ) - Three weeks with a 2.0 TDCi auto 15 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  what the Cortina and the Sierra did very well - plenty of accommodation for a sensible price, but corners have to be cut to achieve the price point - sound insulation being one obvious area. It will be cheap to buy, service and fix. Exactly what a Ford should be.
• Accessible Classic: The Fantastic, Forgotten Citro 5 Apr 2015 (Forum)
  that this was the marques’ new volume car. The 13.7-ft long (4.2-metre) GS was aimed at the growing middle class, and competed both in size, performance and price with cars like the Ford Taunus/Cortina, Opel Ascona, Saab 96, Morris Marina, Fiat 124, Alfasud and Volkswagen K70. Why pick the GS over
• Reborn classics - your choices? 5 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  the Z4 a run for its money! Ford Cortina - to show that cheap, practical RWD thrills are still possible. Ford Capri - ditto. Not that awful Focus-based FWD thing they're planning. Alvis TE21 - if I had to explain, you wouldn't understand, so here goes. Simply the definitive luxury coupé, short
• Driving/cars in Australia and New Zealand 18 Mar 2014 (Forum)
  it happen. Most roads sealed roads are good. Some time was spent on perfectly good unsealed roads, of which there are many, at up to 60 km/h NZ has alot of Japanese cars. In one line of cars parked I counted 12 out of 14 as being Japanese. One of the others was an Aussie Ford while the last