Ford Popular

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The Ford Popular is a car from Ford built in England between 1953 and 1962. When production of the older Ford Anglia and Ford Prefect was stopped in 1953 the Popular was developed as a budget alternative. The Popular was based on the old, prewar-style Anglia. It was powered by a Ford Sidevalve 1172 cc four cylinder engine. The car was very basic. It had a single vacuum powered wiper, no heater, vinyl trim and very little chrome. Over 150,000 Populars were made.

This car proved successful because, while on paper it was a sensible alternative to a clean, late-model used car, in practice there were no clean late-model used cars available in postwar Britain due to the six-year halt in production caused by World War II. This problem was compounded by stringent export quotas that made obtaining a new car in the late 1940s and into the early 1950s difficult, and covenants forbidding new-car buyers from selling for up to three years after delivery. Unless the purchaser could pay the extra GBP100 or so for an Anglia 100E, Austin A30 or Morris Minor, the choice was the Popular or a prewar car.

In 1959 the old Popular was replaced by a new version that was in production until 1962. As the old version it used the Anglia shell, the 100E this time, and it was powered by an 1172 cc sidevalve engine.

[edit] Revival - 1975-1980

In 1975 the Popular name was revived for an absolute base model of the newly released Ford Escort Mk2. This model would be bare on luxuries, had a standard 1.1 litre OHV Kent motor, and drum brakes all round.

[edit] Trivia

In 1970, a Ford Popular was extensively modified by the British Broadcasting Corporation to become "Bessie", the Doctor's sprightly Edwardian roadster on the long-running science-fiction television show, Doctor Who.

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