Your information is wrong regarding the European Ford granada

@xaenon

4 ай бұрын

He's mingling information for the European and North American Granada, which were two completely different cars. Poor research on his part.

@sicosis

4 ай бұрын

@@xaenon good luck to him He's done a better job than me !

@clydebrothers494

2 ай бұрын

@@xaenon my thoughts too. My family has had 3 Granada’s. Two American. A sedan and a coupe. I had a German wagon when I was stationed there The cars had nothing in common

Wow, this is all over the place! Love the flashed photo of a "Falcon" during the Maverick section. Most N. Americans would not recognised it as an Aussie XB Falcon GT. And the North Am Granada being confused with the European Granada. And then there's the 78 Fairmont apparently replacing the Falcon! What?!, 8 years later? Or did you mean the Aussie Falcon (which would also be wrong). Jeez Louise, did you sub-contract this video out to a Mumbai call centre?

@billolsen4360

4 ай бұрын

Half-fast production quality just to keep the subscription money rolling in.

@BrilloBush

4 ай бұрын

Yup. Forgot about an entire line between the Falcon and Fairmont, called the (Gran) Torino.

@maxheadroom22and26

3 ай бұрын

I also wondered that the european Ford Granada in it's coupé style sold in the US... Maybe an AI generated video??

I, for one, never forgot about these Fords!

@deborahchesser7375

4 ай бұрын

Me either, when you grow up riding in them they aren’t easily forgotten, damn I miss the past.

Well that particular European Ford Granada was never sold in the US, but it did come to the US later on as the Merkur Scorpio, which should be on the list of forgotten Fords.

@jeffking4176

4 ай бұрын

Good point. I knew the Scorpio was a German Ford, but I didn’t know [ or realize] it was based off the same platform as the Euro Granada. 🚗🙂

@semiretired86

4 ай бұрын

it's the european MKI Granada pictured replaced in 1976 by the MKII Granada replaced by the Scorpio (kept the Granada name in GB) in 1985 named COTY for 1986 replaced by the uglt Scorpio in 1994

@garrettrussianbeard893

4 ай бұрын

THE SPORT COUP SHOWN IS NOT AN AMERICAN CAR 🤬!!!!!!! This video is all wrong!!!!

RE: Mustang SVO, the one to own was the 1986, by which time the output grew to 200 horsepower, and it was the only year with composite headlights. People don't get that car, it's way more nimble and track oriented than the GT, and it could accelerate just as quickly by 1986. Ford was trying to market it as the better, more fuel efficient way to make 200 horsepower, at a time when gas was $.89/gallon in the USA .

@shanemitchell477

4 ай бұрын

Yes. They were on par with a GT, but give me 30 min...literally and I can make a GT go from 14.5 to a flat 14.0. The timing was terribly retarded in those cars, and also the air intake not made correctly with weird baffles in it as well.

@demolitionman5003

4 ай бұрын

I drove both the 86 GT 5.0 and the 86 SVO and the SVO was a much more nimble and quicker car than the GT. It was only about 25 horsepower less but it weighed a lot less than the GT which made a world of difference

@stephcrane

4 ай бұрын

Loved the look of those with the composite headlights - looked like an American riff on Mad Max's Pursuit Special.

@ms8596

3 ай бұрын

I worked as an engineer for Ford at the time, and the Probe was supposed to replace the Mustang, but the die-hard Mustang fans rallied Dearborn to not go through with it. I saw the SVO as corporate's response to the overall trend for getting away from V8's and trying to develop performance from 4 cylinder engines. Of course, the GT took off, especially with their "The Boss is Back" advertising, basically killing a performance 4 cyl Mustang. I always admired the SVO and wondered what could have been had they stuck with it as an option. I definitely loved the disc brakes all around and the suspension. I had an '84.5 GT (the half year going from single exhaust to dual) and was ticked Ford still had drums in the rear.

@charleschauffe5884

3 ай бұрын

I own an '84 SVO I bought from original owner back in 1999. Have every book, receipt, even window sticker from new. Only 34k miles, still smells new!❤

This video is AI generated crap.

@cdnmetelhead4013

4 ай бұрын

💯💩

@biglongcadillac

15 күн бұрын

AI videos are seen more and more lately. Smh

EXP was a re-bodied Escort. The doors were identical to the 2 door Escort.

I own a 1982 Ford Granada with an extremely rare factory manual transmission

I fail to see how a European Granada have anything to do with its American namesake.....

I was just a Kid in the 80's, and much to my surprise was given a Company car for work. It was a Ford EXP, Red/Black with super nice leather interior. Did very well at all the high speed long commuting I had to do. Surprised with the quality of the interior, the features as well as the performance. It was a great car for an 80's up and coming young man...enough to catch the eye of my Super Hot Wife of 40+ yrs.

Who wrote this? So many errors, mispronounced words!

1978 Ford Fairmont took over for Ford Maverick. Both a good car for the time. Technology has changed the cars of today. We have evolved time.

@toddaulner5393

4 ай бұрын

My friend bought one and I laughed but it was like a 1981, small v6 engine I think but it got way better gas mileage and we drove that thing back and forth across the country.

@xaenon

4 ай бұрын

@@toddaulner5393 For '81-82, I think Ford was still using the 200 inline-six in their Fox-platform cars. The base engine for those years was the 2.3L OHC four, which was 'adequate' if not particularly thrilling. The 200 had a fair amount of pep and was a very simple and reliable engine, and there was an optional 255 V8 (complete turd of an engine...). I'm pretty sure you could still get a 302 in 81 but it wasn't a well-advertised thing (might have been a 'police' option). The 3.8 V6 showed up in the Fox-platform cars in '83 after they discontinued the 200 six-cylinder.

@toddaulner5393

4 ай бұрын

​@@xaenonit wan back in like 1985 or 1986 when he got it and i really do not remember. I do know it was a 6 cylinder so probably the 200 cu.in.

@user-qr2vj6zc6s

4 ай бұрын

It was crap. My mother had a 79 4 cylinder when I was 16.

What happens when you use AI to generate videos: 3:15 "Lee Eya - cock-a" 4:30 -- lots of irrelevant information about Edsel, nothing to do with it being "forgotten" or "worth forgetting" -- more typical of an AI search on keyword "Edsel" 4:37 -- some auto factory that is NOT producing Edsels, and apparently early to mid 1960s, well after the Edsel was being built 5:25 Seems to have no idea the US and European Ford Granadas were two separate cars with the same name. 7:45 "Ford Fairmont in 1978, the replacement for the Ford Falcon" 1 The Fairmont replaced the Ford Maverick, not the Ford Falcon 2 Voiceover comes hilariously after showing a 1962 Ford Falcon 3 The US Ford Falcon's last year built was 1969, with the nameplate being used through the end of 1969, as 1970 models. Ford Australia had something called a Falcon, all the way through 2016 7:50 "lightweight unit body construction, mostly forgotten today" Unit body construction is near-universal in cars in 2024. 10:22 "Ford EXP was so good looking...." Pretty universally the EXP's dopey hooded headlights made it regarded as unattractive and weird 10:12 "Designed to compete with the Pontiac Fiero, Honda CRX, Toyota MR2" Fiero was introduced in 1984, CRX and MR2 around 1986 -- well after the 1982 EXP intro.

@patrickfitzmichael5940

23 күн бұрын

You know your shit. You should be making these vids.

I have a fully restored 1954 Ford Crestliner glass roof car.

'75 Granada coupe? What kind of Granada was pictured? Must have been a British Ford. I don't remember any Granada around here that looked like that. Pretty much all 1970s American cars were styled like the Mercedes Benz. The mid '70s Granadas did this fairly well. Both 2 door and 4 door models were very popular back then.

@markusjuenemann

4 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right. It's the european model: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Granada_(Europe)

@STho205

4 ай бұрын

Which has nothing to do with the US Granada/Monarch except the name.

@markusjuenemann

4 ай бұрын

@@STho205 Absolutely correct

@mtrgv

4 ай бұрын

It was a European spec. Ford Granada built on a different unibody platform that was sold in England and the Continent.

That 1975 Granada Coupe is from Ford Europe.

Still plenty of '57 Fairlanes kicking around up here in the Pacific NW...I see them every year at my Mustang club's All-Ford show 😊

That was the Maverick grabber.Fairmont replaced the Maverick not Falcon

Look up Ford Durango. There is a forgotten Ford.

Lee i...what ? Lmfao ! Don't use AI IT'S AWFUL!

@Prairieshutterbug64

4 ай бұрын

Lee Eye-a-cocka lol

No squirrels were harmed in the making of this video. 8:47.

Why did you use footage of the very successful European Ford Granada? Your video is talking about the American Ford Granada/ Mercury Monarch which is an entirely different car. You might as well show a Bunch of photos of a Zebra and talk about a Clydesdale horse ( both of which ALSO have nothing to do with each other).

Amazing you have any subscribers or that YT would recommend this channel.

One other forgotten Ford is the early 80s Mercury Capri, based on the mustang with styling differences. Didn't see too many of those back then, especially the 5.0.

@StrangerTurboRanger

3 ай бұрын

Or the earlier 70s Capris( Euro Ford that was badge changed to Mercury for US market.). I have a 1976 Capri II RS. I get tired of people thinking I said Caprice ... Of course the Non Fox platform Capri is not forgotten in Europe. Was UK equivalent to our Fox Mustang, Aftermarket parts still strong for em overseas.

Where's the car from the thumbnail photo ???

@wadesmoker8315

4 ай бұрын

Looks like a Volvo 780, but not quite right??

@300mspecial

3 ай бұрын

Looks kind of like a 1979 Mercury XM concept, but the tailights are wrong. That thumbnail has me baffled (for now).

@chrischaf

3 ай бұрын

@@300mspecialAfter my wife and I zoomed in on the thumbnail, we came to the conclusion it's AI generated. The wheels are weird when you actually look up close at them. It really did look like the xm concept, but the more we looked at the details on this one, the more flaws we saw.

@biglongcadillac

15 күн бұрын

​@@chrischafAI is correct

I worked for the maintenance department for a state run University. We had a fleet of those Ford Courier pick-ups. Rust buckets is what they were. Would get big holes in the floor board.

@anonymousplanetfambly4598

3 ай бұрын

I own a 1980 model. They were made from Japanese beer cans lol. Seriously, very very thin gauge steel and single wall bed construction virtually guaranteed their demise. I can do bodywork on it with my thumbs. In the state of Georgia a fleet of them were purchased and used to destruction by the DOT, which only took a couple of years.

Literally none of these are forgotten.

The only thing i wanna forget is this $hitty vieo.

Time may have forgotten but I sure didn’t, thanks for the vid!

I know a guy that owned a Edsel diesel dump truck. He used to always keep the bed full of brick stretchers.

A hilarious AI generated video that throws in the totally unrelated European Granada as a substitute for the U.S. market Granada. Who creates these videos…. and why?

I would have the Granada coupe any day of the week 👍cheers Stephen 🤠🦅⭐🐴✌️

Oh man when I was a teenager I took a Ford EXP for a test drive with my best friend and damn did I love that car. 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

1957 Ford roof rust? Come on.

@crankychris2

4 ай бұрын

That's BS...Fords, like Mopars didn't 'rust out". By using low grade steel, rust was carefully built in during the build, insuring that rust is built in before our name goes on. That's why our rust has a lifetime warranty, it's built in for life.

@xaenon

4 ай бұрын

Something about the rainwater channels at the edges getting easily clogged with debris. Yes, they tended to rust.

BS thumbnail

My 2001 Ford Excursion enjoyed this video😅

Granada never had a 351C a rare race built, de tuned for the street. Saw a former Police Interceptor with the 351W-. The 302 was pretty common

I had a maverick,loved it

I like the Edsel, the front grille looks like a Bugatti grille

I've spent some time reading about the reasons that the 57 Fords were less common than the 57 Chevy even though Ford outsold Chevy in 1957. My understanding was that their V8 engines had a lot to do with it. The 57 Chevy was often powered by Chevy's original "small block" V8 which remained in production for decades and is still available from GM as a crate motor. It was easy to find a reasonably healthy small block Chevy in any junk yard when the engine in a 57 Chevy died. The 57 Ford still used the Y-Block as its only V8 motor. This engine was removed from automotive use in 1962, and was retired from truck use in 1964. There came a time when the owner of an old 57 Ford had the choice of rebuilding the obsolete Y-Block, or swapping in a different motor. It was easier to keep Tri 5 Chevies going than Fords from the same timeframe. I hadn't heard that the 57 Ford had body problems, that would have been a contributing factor.

@anonymousplanetfambly4598

3 ай бұрын

It was very well known that 57 Fords were rust prone just a couple of years post manufacture. Another bad rust spot was the underside of the leading edge of the hood.

That robo-voice! 3:12 "Lee EYE-OH COCK-AH"

I'm sorry buddy but you have Australian models mixed up with American models. Us Americans didn't have access to Australian models. 👊😎👍

Why does the video show a european Ford Granada that was never sold in the US?

Great video...highly informative

@American.legends

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

My uncle had an 80’s fox body mustang and damn could that car fly. He took me out on the interstate and proceeded to ignore the speed limit.

If I remember correctly my parents bought a brand new Ford Fairmont and it wouldn’t start the second day they had it. So they returned it and got an 80’s Ford Fiesta instead that car was great.

Among other mistakes, the Fairmont was NOT a replacement for the Falcon. The Falcon as a nameplate, died a number of years before Fairmont (which space was taken in the lineup by the Maverick, btw), and certainly not a replacement for the pictured Falcon, which it’s generation ended in 1969, a long time from Fairmont’s 1978 introduction.

Let us not forget the mighty TEMPO and TOPAZ

@PatrickBrannonSr.

2 ай бұрын

Let's please do . LOL

the concord was rust prone .. one still loved it leave spring would come right through the trunk .. easy fix cut out the rust weild in some steel reinstall the brackets and springs.

He said " Wicked Hot"

@anonymousplanetfambly4598

3 ай бұрын

That's a sure-fire marker for someone from the upper midwest.

ALL car makers have models they would as soon forget. !

Between an '86 GT and '86 SVO, starting stock for stock, gimme 60 seconds to pull one hose and take a tiny drill bit to the bleeder tee for the turbo waste gate, allowing it to boost to 18psi, then watch the GT get trounced hard.

Why are you showing these beautiful examples of Ford's with those crummy custom wheels ?

@johnhutchison9782

3 ай бұрын

EXP and LN7 were shod with those goofy rims.

I came close to buying an ‘85 SVO back in ‘99. I passed it up and bought an ‘89 5.0 LX 5spd instead. Recently when foxbody prices dropped I bought a few t-too cars and parked them out back covered. Out of the 16 mustangs I’ve owned, I’ve only had one coupe-fox and now you can’t find them at all affordable.

3:13 Lee Iacocka? Never heard of him. I didn't realize Henry Ford resembled Flea from the RHCP.

Whoever created this has no idea about the difference between American and European Granadas. Huge error.

I had a 1982 Fairmont with a straight 6. never had a problem. And most importantly it saved my life in a bad broadside accident.

I like how whoever made this video has no idea that there was a difference between U.S., U.K., and AU for models.

I don't know what's wrong with the Edsel car's front grill. The cars in Europe has the same shit in THEIR front grill and theirs are older than Edsel. America is not ready....

@CJColvin

4 ай бұрын

I would've imagine what the Edsel Brand would've looked during the Muscle car Era had Ford done a better job with the Edsel Brand.

@xaenon

4 ай бұрын

It was very different from what the US was used to. Some people thought it looked like a woman's... erm, 'intimate bits'. But the radical styling was only ONE problem Edsel faced. The car rolled out in the midst of a recession (bad time to introduce a high-priced model!), and the 1958s were plagued with QA problems. Ford spent HIDEOUS amounts of money to bring the Edsel to market. Edsel damned near bankrupted Ford; if the Falcon had not sold as well as it did, and if the Mustang had not been the success it was, Ford would probably not have survived the 1960s.

@pyrexmaniac

4 ай бұрын

1970-71 Pontiacs were far, far worse.

@xaenon

4 ай бұрын

@@pyrexmaniac In what way? styling, engineering, price?

Re: the Ford EXP. The EXP came out in 1982 as a commuter because of gas prices. It was "sporty" car not a sports car. It was the 1st one out so it didn't compete with the other others. Fiero came out late 1983. CRX came out in 1983 also Toyota Mr2 was 1984 or 85 I can't find exact date. As for 0-60mph the EXP wasn't the quickest but it also wasn't the slowest. That honor goes to the Mr2 @ 9.7sec EXP was 9.0sec Fiero was 8.8sec CRX hit 60mph in 7.2sec All this took me about 10min to research so what's your excuse. You said at the beginning that your videos were not getting promoted/pushed well from what I can tell (and see from all the comments) is your information is more wrong than getting anything correct and, at least for me, there were a ton of ads. So no go for me. I try to support smaller channels but not this time. Blocking

This must have been compiled by AI. The info about the Granada is completely wrong, picturing the European Granada - which in Europe was the top of the range model, hardly a compact/cheap car! You need to do better buddy

Ah yes Lee IO-Cock-a my favorite guy they say he saved CRYsler too

Sounds good , can't beat the sound with these new souped up sewing machine motors .

WOW!!!! THAT was A LOT of commercials!

As others have already said, the U.S. did not get the British/European Granada. In fact, these were 2 completely separate lines, and the European versions shared only the name with the North American counterpart. Other than that, it’s a good video. 🚗🙂

KIA actually made some cars for FORD, at one time. The Fiesta was one, but I don't know if there were any others!

@trainglen22

4 ай бұрын

It was Fiestva from Kia, not Fiesta

@rhrh2025

4 ай бұрын

You're right!

@rickk.20

4 ай бұрын

Aspire was a FORD badged KIA.

@mccrackenphillip

4 ай бұрын

Mazda, Escort, Lazer like the one seen in Golgo 13

Congratulations! Your video has been entered into the running for 'most factual errors in a single video' category of the Internet Razzies.

Man i think i lost my heart to crestline skyliner...its wickely beautiful!😍🤩... But that plexi glass would have worked splendid with Packard cars..their dash were studded with beautiful knobs, meters and quirks... Not to forget those lil cute mini trucks...in mini trucks chevy LUV is the the prettiest.. But i must say regarding stuffed dash, ford dashes are the boredom, just straight forward things here and there...nothing fancy..

To be fair the Ford EXP came out before the Honda CRX,Toyota MR2 and Pontiac Fiero and those cars were not quicker during initial first years.

FORD INVENTED THE REAR DEFROSTER, IT WOULD KEEP YOUR HANDS WARM WHILE PUSHING YOUR CAR TO THE SERVICE STATION FOR REPAIRS....

They have the wrong video for the Granada. Maybe there was a European Granada, but the Granada they are talking about was not as presented here. They were quite nicer and better looking, and more expensive than the maverick. The EXP was like a two seater escort. They were awful.

AI? Glad I read some comments first. Thanks guys and gals for saving me from another waste of time.

5:18 , Errrrr. The green Granada is a European one, from Ford Germany I think, but was sold all over Europe. I don't think there were any sold in the US, the Us Granada is the red one on the comparison phto with a Mercedes.

3:13 Ha Ha Ha

What? NO mention of the late 50's Ford Skyliner, where the whole roof slid back into where the trunk would've been.

Didn't realize the 1982 EXP was made to compete with the 1984 Fiero and 1984 CRX. Sounds like the other way around. The bubbleback EXP of 85/86 should have gotten a better, more powerful engine to go with it's updated look. Then it would have stood a chance. When it was crossbred as the Escort/EXP it looked like a bloated caricature of it's original form.

Lee "Eye-ah-COCK-ah" made me chuckle...

Ford Granada sport coupe? Not in the US market......

Also for granada you showed the European granada, not the us version

4 wheels disc brakes were standard in the Lincoln Versailles long before the Mustang SVO.

Lee Iyacocker😂 nice job AI😂

topaz/ tempo and merkur

If this video is trying to be historically accurate, and specifically about Ford Motor Co., then Fox "body" should NEVER be used. Ford has NEVER in its history used the term "body" for its programs, that is a GM term and also used by Chrysler. Never Ford. Never. Ford makes "platforms" (underbody) and "tophats" (upper body). So the 1979 Mustang is most accurately a Mustang tophat on a shortened Fox platform.

@anonymousplanetfambly4598

3 ай бұрын

It's pretty common in Mustang enthusiast circles to use the term "foxbody" when referring to many Fox chassis vehicles. If you're not a Mustang enthusiast...you wouldn't know.

The SVO was better in every way than the GT. It's only problem was the American auto buyer still wanted a v8.

So, did no one ever take a picture of a Maverick Stallion? 6:20

Mostly very cool cars

Lee Who?!😂😂😂😂

With all the nostalgia and ford didn't make a new mustang trim called svo. They had a 2.3 turbo mustang and missed the boat. 😑

You forgot the ford probe

Sigh... this vid could have been good. The SVO is not the first car ford made with 4 wheel disks. The 1977 through 1980 Lincoln Versailles had a ford 9 inch rear end with factory disk brakes. I bought a wrecked one to steal the suspension and brakes from to upgrade a 1968 Mustang fastback. Everything bolts right in.

@American.legends

3 ай бұрын

i meant "first mustang", sorry i didn't made that clear

Wish you could make up your mind if you are going to show the American Granada or the European Granada.

Lee Iacocka🙄🙄🙄

The Granada Sport Coupe, that you illustrate and go on and on about, was NEVER sold in the US! If you don't know what you are talking about, then maybe you should stop talking!

Ok

You got the Reese's m years worms m wrong with the SVO Mustangs song with its capabilities. It was known for beating 5.0 V8 versions of the Mustang. Yep seconds of actual research would've got you that conclusion.

Dude your research sucks. German Granada was never sold in the states. Can't finish this video and I hope I bever accidently hit up one of your again.

"Lee Ia-kah-kah"?! Really?! 😂😂😂

Squint and see a Porsche in the EXP? 😂 Not sure how you squint but it must be with closed eyes while sleeping.

There is so much wrong with the graphics and mis-information loaded narration. Was the Maverick ever considered a compact? '57 Fords way outsold '57 Cheveys, and so on...and an Australian Falcon. Car people didn't make these.

I had a new 1978 Fairmont. Just plain junk. I weighed 190 and the floorboard cracked within a year. The steeling wheel hub cracked. The radio keep acting up and was replaced 3 times. Several times the trany vacuum modulator went out. The 3.3 six was okay in town but gutless on the highway. Worst quality car I ever owned.