WHAT IS IT?
What is it indeed? U.S. enthusiasts will need to zoom in on the badging to have any clue at all, and then the perplexity is just starting. Americans who remember the Ford Granada, remember it as a typical, crudely engineered, ill-handling chrome-laden Malaise-era barge that was somewhat hysterically compared to a Mercedes 280SE in U.S. advertising. Ironically, the rest of the world got this, an actual, cut-price Mercedes competitor with sharp styling, a manual transmission, and a powerful (for the time) fuel-injected Ford Cologne V6 which made decent horsepower and great noise. The car is forever remembered by Brits of a certain age as the hero car in the UK action show “The Sweeney” a kind of British “Starsky and Hutch.”
WHY THIS CAR HAS BEST ONE ON THE PLANET CHOPS?
The car is forever remembered by Brits of a certain age as the hero car in the UK action show “The Sweeney” a kind of British “Starsky and Hutch.”
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Check out the 500SEC rear on this one! Can’t imagine there’s a cleaner one out there than this.
Remarkable condition (especially underneath) for a car that could have easily been lost to the ravages of time. The Benz-like headlights and tailamps are hilarious; I’d be surprised to find a better Granada Mk II than this.
It is a shame that so many US based enthusiasts will look right past this car, being saddled with the “Granada” nomenclature. In the US Granada is synonymous with a spinster, librarian living in Lagrange… This Granada is charming on so many levels. For one, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the designer could not have ripped off more period Mercedes design cues: tail lights, rubber rear lip spoiler, wheel design, et al… Yet, it works in period, charming Euro/American/British mashup. I do LOVE the reverse sweep tach, the velour upholstery and the 5-digit KM speedometer sure communicates that Ford did not expect this car to exist in 2025. Loveit!
Is it just me or does this car look like a Mercedes and a BMW had a night of passion… and then a 1980 Ford Escort crashed the party and insisted on being the face of the baby?
Truer words have rarely been spoken in the automotive world.
I’m not from the UK, so this car is a huge novelty to me. Happily, it’s nothing like the Granada we got here. It’s taut, boxy and handsome and it’s a manual. It also looks showroom new. I’d love for someone from Europe or the UK to weigh in, but this one looks like The Best One on the Planet to me.