Ford Escort
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Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Ford Europe
- Production
- January 1968–2004
- Class
- Small family car ( C )
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (1967–1981, 1987), Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (1980–2004), Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (1990–2004)
- Related
- Ford Orion (1983–1993)
- Predecessor
- Ford Anglia (UK)
- Successor
- Ford Focus , Ford Laser (Australasia), Ford Meteor (Australia), Ford Transit Connect (for Escort van), Ford Escort (China)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ford Escort is a small family car that was manufactured by Ford of Europe from 1968 until 2004. In total, the six generations were spread across three basic platforms: the original, rear-wheel-drive Mk.1/Mk.2 (1968–1980), the "Erika" front-wheel-drive Mk.3/Mk.4 (1980–1992), and the final CE-14 Mk.5/Mk.6 (1990–2002) version. Its successor, the Ford Focus, was released in 1998, but the final generation of Escort was phased out gradually, with the panel van version ending production in 2002 in favour of the Ford Transit Connect.
The Escort was frequently the best-selling car in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. More than 4.1 million Escorts of all generations were sold there over a period of 33 years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ford Escort” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.