Ford Consul 375 de Luxe - The Giant of Dagenham
Summary
Eight centimetres wider and 20 centimetres longer than its predecessor: even as a four-cylinder Consul, the largest English Ford was a handsome car. As the Zephyr or Zodiac, it even went one better. As an article has already been dedicated to the six-cylinder model, this article presents the second Consul generation with the registration 204E and shows a late "Lowline" model in the picture, accompanied as usual by plenty of historical images and text material as well as three sales brochures from the time.
This article contains the following chapters
- Longer and wider with a touch of the exotic
- Performance-enhanced for a show career
- More luxurious, lower, safer
- The day the music died (again)
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Not only in Germany, but also in Great Britain, the USA was the great stylistic role model after the Second World War - at least in automotive engineering. When the British Ford subsidiary wanted to modernize its model range at the beginning of the 1950s, which was still exclusively equipped with free-standing fenders, it not only took its cue from the brand new 1949 US models, but also had its designer George Walker reduce his own design to European dimensions. With 14 inches less wheelbase (100 instead of 114) and an exterior length reduced by the same amount, this was certainly no easy task, so that the shape of the new Ford perhaps looked a little too similar to the Ponton that gave it its name.
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