As a publicity stunt, several Cortinas were driven down the bobsled run at the resort which was called Cortina Auto-Bobbing. The model's name was inspired by the name of the Italian ski resort Cortina d'Ampezzo, site of the 1956 Winter Olympics. Such was its fame in the UK that the BBC Two documentary series Arena once devoted an edition to the car and its enthusiasts. In fact, this new Taunus–Cortina used the doors and some panels from the 1970 Taunus.Īll variants of the Cortina sold over one million, with each successive model proving more popular than its predecessor. By 1976, when the revised Taunus was launched, the Cortina was identical. This was part of a Ford attempt to unify its European operations.
From 1970 onward, it was almost identical to the German-market Ford Taunus (being built on the same platform) which was originally a different car model. The Cortina was produced in five generations (Mark I through to Mark V, although officially the last one was called the Cortina 80) from 1962 until 1982. In other markets, particularly Asia and Australasia, it was replaced by the Mazda 626-based Ford Telstar, though Ford New Zealand did import British-made CKD kits of the Ford Sierra estate for local assembly from 1984. It was eventually replaced in 1982 by the Ford Sierra. It was also Britain's best-selling car of the 1970s.
The Cortina was Ford's mass-market compact car and sold extremely well, making it very common on British roads. The Ford Cortina is a large family car built by Ford of Britain in various guises from 1962 to 1982.
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