Sierra Development - 1982
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- čas přidán 31. 12. 2019
- This film follows the development and launch of the radical new Ford Sierra. It shows early sketches, clay modelling, wind tunnel tests and the car being put through its paces at Ford's Lommel test track.
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Love the background music. Makes me want to watch The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
For a second I thought the guy with the cigar at 0:47 was Lee Iacocca. Of course by '82 he'd been at Chrysler almost five years.
I remember the when the Sierra was just being released. My dad was up for getting a new company car and I was begging him to get one. He ended up getting one of the last cortina 2.0 Ghias.
That's Bob Lutz
Lincoln-Mercury dealers sold the Merkur XR4Ti, which was based on the Sierra hatchback, from 1985-89. All Merkur XR4Tis and Scorpios were built in Germany.
Read that the final appearance for Sierra as it first appeared was signed off in late 1979 for the 1982 release. Daresay the clay model at 2:34 would have had 2-doors on one side, and one on the other.
Did you know that the name MONDEO has almost lasted the same length of time as CORTINA and SIERRA combined
Very good point, that had passed me by.
Mind blown
Very modern looking car back then,scared the hell out of Cortina buyers and gave Vauxhalls Cavalier a sudden sales boost!
Is that Martin Jarvis narrating the film?
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Interesting Ford Video on the 1982 Sierra which the Cortina was Replaced by the Sierra
It was called a "Jelly Mould" by it's detractors, and with good reason; It was an ugly car!!
Ford really lost the plot in the early '80s after making really great cars in the 1970s: Capri / Escort / Cortina. Afterward the greats like the Fiesta XR2 came their boring years: Ford Orion / Mondeo/ etc.
I always thought the 1986 Taurus and Sable were more ahead. Equal to the Audi C3 of 1982/83.
I would not say the Sierra was ugly but in a world of boxes out of place too radical. The aerodynamic trends of the 80s were just beginning. Ford and Audi were pioneering smooth jelly mould shapes that would define the 90s.
It would have been easier to produce what people were expecting at that time looks wise and they chose the radical route.
Ford got it so wrong with the very first Sierra, the shape was disliked, the styling was weird, and only when the style changed to something more toned down did people give it any real notice. Even then more upmarket rivals were overtaking it.
Oh, I don't know. Vauxhall dealers loved the Sierra. It helped sell a whole bunch of mk2 Cavaliers to fleets up and down the country and beyond.
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Had such promise...but archaic running gear was always its Achilles heel, typically Ford, too big an idea, poorly executed. Cortina was king, but Sierra allowed the competition to catch up and overtake. The whole world changed while Ford assumed it would always be No.1 - look at them now, just an ‘also-ran’ in Europe, now the Motor industry (as we know it) is in terminal decline, they will never recover.