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The Ford Zephyr is an executive car manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1950 until 1972. The Zephyr and its luxury variants, the Ford Zodiac and Ford Executive , were the largest passenger cars in the British Ford range from 1950 until their replacement by the Consul and Granada models in 1972.
The Ford Zephyr engine was a line of automotive OHV internal combustion engines that were designed for and unveiled with Ford of Britain's Zephyr/Zodiac and Consul models. The family included both straight-four and straight-six versions. Production began in 1951 and lasted until 1966, when it was replaced by Ford's Essex V4 and Essex V6 engines.
The Ford Consul is a car that was manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1951 until 1962. The name was later revived for a model produced by Ford in both the UK and in Germany from 1972 until 1975. Between 1951 and 1962, the Consul was the four-cylinder base model of the three-model Ford Zephyr range, comprising Consul, Zephyr, and Zephyr Zodiac ...
A few cars were built from 1961 to 1963 with a 2553 cc tuned Ford Zephyr engine and sold as the Aceca 2.6. Based on the open two-seat AC Ace, the Aceca was a hand-built grand tourer in the British tradition, with ash wood and steel tubing used in their construction.
Ford Motor Company Limited, [2] [note 1] trading as Ford of Britain, is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Technologies Limited (formerly called Blue Oval Holdings), itself a subsidiary of Ford International Capital LLC, which is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. [3] Its business started in 1909 and has its registered office in Laindon ...
The mainstream full-sized Ford line of cars from 1960 to 1964 was now complemented by a variety of other Fords, including the Thunderbird and compact Falcon, and from 1962 the midsized Fairlane. So the mainline car grew even more, now riding on a 119 in (3023 mm) wheelbase.
A revised Essex V4 with a 2-bbl carburettor was fitted in the 2000E version of the Corsair. The most powerful factory version of the Essex V4 appeared in the Ford Corsair 2000E Deluxe and produced 103 hp (104.4 PS; 76.8 kW). The revised Zephyr Mk IV line debuted in 1966. The Zephyr 4 model was powered by the 2.0 L Essex.
Zephyr UK: 1950–1971 ... Ford produced multiple types of trucks in Germany for military during WWII. e.g. Ford G917T, ... (1960) Ford La Galaxie (1958) Ford La ...