Ford Granada Mk I Ghia Launch - 1974
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2015
- This film launches the Ghia as the new high-end addition to the Ford Granada range. The Ghia offered such luxuries as body contoured seats, "real Belgian walnut" trim and an electronic digital clock. The slogan "Ford Granada, the feel of total engineering", sets the tone for this range.
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I would love to have a time machine, then go back to 1974, purchase a brand new Mk1Ghia and take it back with me to the year 2020
You'd be a rich man now!!
@@mattcrooke8321 Yeah, in good condition they are very expensive 😀
I think I would prefer to stay in 1974 with my Granada GXL.
That digital clock 🥰
The 1970's are gone this classic is here to stay great work ford
Loved that electronic digital clock
Might well have been "electronic manual clock"
I want one, especially like that electronic Digital clock!
The Mk 1 Granada/Consul was a huge handsome brute of a car with bags of character and I just loved them.
Ford Granadas were awesome cars in billions of ways and I wish I had owned a Ford Granada
@@Eltonlaleham The MK1 did it for me...Awesome.
@@christopherscott2565 A big leap forward from the Zephyr/ Zodiac, a vastly better drivers car, more modern and in GXL/Ghia form a very nice place to be. Leather seats might have been dropped, but I always found velour more comfortable.
My dad had the 3.0L GXL. 'Artic White' with a black vinyl roof. Great acceleration! I was 14 and loved washing it.
Just like in 'The Sweeny'.
The Ghias were absolute luxury and comfort
It was the 70's you daft bat! There weren't any electrical luxuries at that particular time......
@pmailkeey Fords of the time never got any of those till much later
@@anthonyperkins7556 Rubbish. American cars had electric everything from the 50s onwards.
That's the American market you wally, this is the UK you idiot! Cars here in the UK of the 1970's didn't get ritzy glitzy bits and electrical goodies till MUCH LATER ON.......
In the 1970s Austin and Morris made you pay extra for a heater.
I had a 2500 manual V6 XL. L Reg. One of my favourite cars. I was only 19 at the time (1982) and had it 4 years. Great car.
There was a bloke in Abergavenny in the seventies who had a Ford Granada Ghia and a Daimler Jaguar. His wife drove the Granada and I’d see him driving to work in his Daimler as I walked to school. To us he was like A Getty or a Rockefeller. By all accounts he had a carpet factory in Brynmawr. Class
My dad had a 1977 coupe Ghia in Roman bronze and a 77 gl saloon in Naples red. Both great cars.
I'd be concentrating on that clock so much I'd probably crash. It's hypnotic.
My dad had a 1970's UK spec Ford Granada Ghia 3.0L V6 with the optional air-conditioning fitted, and it was a boon on sunny days in Summer, to have an ice-cool chilled airflow through the facia vents.
My father purchased his Granada GXL in November 1972.
Thát seat cloth looks AMAZING!
Almost looks like suede.
The clocks seals the deal for me
They should have kept this model through 1985!
A lot better than the Zodiac Executive it replaced. Remember that the cheaper smaller engined Granadas were initially called Consul.
I still love that dash.
The Granada of my childhood...my family never had one but these were quite a common sight on UK roads in the 1970s. Big, graceful cars, the Ghias epitomized simple luxury, although there was a lack of convenience features that we take for granted today such as power windows and locks. It would take until the Mk2s or Mk3s to get that on the upmarket Granadas.
A true driver's car classic cars don't get better than this.
I remember in the Omen, Peck is driving one around Italy.
ONE OF MY DREAMCARS
Por Dios! Esto es oro en polvo! Gracias por compartirlo! Argentina presente.
My first boss (a bit of a scallywag) had an old, early, slightly rough Mk1 V6 automatic that I parked for him at the multi-storey and retrieved at the end of the day. I had no license at the time. It was my own little daily dream of European Americana (almost), made more visceral at one point by the blowing exhaust.
In truth it was a dreadful, wallowing old tank of a thing, assembled by men on blindfolds and foundry gloves.... But at 17 it was Popeye Doyle keeping up with a train in city traffic.... Aaah.... The Mk1 Granada. Teen bliss in an otherwise dull world.
Granada mk1 just seemed to have really nice curvs about it over the Mk2.
My dad had the budget early consul Grannie with the notorious 1.7 V4 engine, although he covered quite a big mileage in it with no issues. Maybe he was lucky
The last big Ford to be made in Britain and it had the unstressed Essex V6 to make motorway driving a pleasure, not a chore, like many smaller cars then. Also I can remember the Granada Ghia having really comfottable velour seats.
A classic car for a driver who love to go anywhere on business or pleasure this set ford Granada to new levels of driver who love this car .
I thought the styling of this was just SUPERB, both inside and out. A friends dad had the Consul, which if I remember rightly was the 3 door version. It was a stunner, and huge too.
Consul was not a specific body style. In the beginning all the entry level models were called Consul and more upmarket ones were called Granada. This was due to a naming dispute with Granada television. Ford won the case and all models were later named as Granada.
I think that an even better idea is the 1974 Citroen DS 23 IE Pallas! What a car! Design and technical refinement on a level that Ford never even have come close to.
And if it comes to repairing a Citroen DS, you will soon get the point why to buy a Ford Granada :-)
Sorry, mate, but you´ve got it all wrong. I don´t think you know what you are talking about. You could not have been driving a DS, much less owned one. Otherwise you would have known better. The Citroen DS is a very reliable car. I have been driving these since 1972 and I bought my 1974 DS 23 IE Pallas in 1988 (31 years ago!) and still drive it on a regular basis. I have had very few problems, and it does not cost more to maintain and repair that conventional cars. On the contrary. It´s a really heavy duty construction. And the hydraulic system is very reliable and the best thing with the whole car. The suspension spheres last much longer than conventional units, and when the nitrogen-gas pressure becomes low, you just fill them up, and they are like new agian!
And a chockabsorber on a DS is just a small valve in the bottom of the sphere, that never needs replacement! Not to mention the constant ride height, irrepsective of the load, and the superior comfort that the system gives.
So, no, I will never come to a point where I will trade my DS 23 IE Pallas for a Ford Granada!
Or, as we say in Swedish: "Aldrig en Ford på våran gård!"
Citroen is not å famlely frendly car . Ford granada much better car. Citroen no no no.ford granada yes yes yes.
@@jourwalis-8875 Imagine comparing some french aluminium garbage can without brakes to Ford Granada. The car Lee Iacocca, leader of Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation, used himself as his car of choice. The guy that, introduced Mustang, most iconic car ever and convinced Henry Ford II to produce GT40, car that will race in Le Mans, and will win with Enzo Ferrari. The man that literally saved Chrysler. Guy that is one of biggest icons in automobile history. Imagine comparing car that Lee Iacocca, again man that had direct impact on making GT40 and Mustang, called best ford ever made. Imagine comparing Ford Granada to any french car ever... :P
My Dad had a 3l GL estate. OPR 594R I think it was.. white with a tobacco vinyl roof. Lovely car and lots of memories
Beautiful car. Any left in 2019 are still expensive
I had a Ford Granada Mk.I. In the 1982 snow, it kept slithering down the camber into the kerb. In dry weather it only wanted to go in a straight line with yer foot hard down. But I loved it.
a classic
Brilliant 👍👍
I remember heading off in one on holiday. It was a taxi, and got less than 200 yards from home when there was a horrid clunking grating sound as we ground to a halt. It turned out that that the rear axle had disintegrated. Dagenham Dustbin Mk2.
gods gift to banger racers !
Ford Granada gear is tops and this 1974 model shows that ford at its best with this car .
Oh my God - it even came with a push button radio - sheer decadence!
Iv a 1974 granada ghia coupe they never made many an very rare now!
+Matthew Parnell Yeah, the last time I saw one of those was back in 1979.
They were slow sellers as perceived as an old mans 3.0 Capri at the time. 3.0 Ghia offered for the same price as a 2.0 GL in 1976. I do get how they are collectable and rare now though.
Must be worth a fair bit now!?
Sold. Where's the nearest showroom?
Bill The Driver from "The Sweeney" must have thought all his Christmas' had come at once when this film came out!
Plot twist: he's the narrator.
He was brushing up on his American accent, lol.
Note well....fully independent rear suspension. Many cars don't have that now!
What was it with brown and avocado green in the 70's?, think my old house was wallpapered in brown and orange back then lol..
Very surprised of the optional air conditioning.
No mention of the vinyl roof :-)
Ford Granada the feel of total hearing aid beige.
Ford Sahara beige was popular with used car salesmen because it was a very easy colour to match repairs, with a cheap aerosol spray paint, it was know known in the trade as "money spinner beige"
I wish i brought one new in 1974 and vacuum bagged it in a heated environment for 50 years
I had a ford granada in the us in 70s
Great cars I got mk1 with 2.0 v6 cologne :)
2.0 wasn't a v6 it was a straight 4
@@davepatrick8053 Before correcting others make sure of your facts...there was a Cologne 2.0 V6.
I stand corrected. After a bit more research I now realise that I was wrong. @@MrGoogelaar
@@MrGoogelaar
UK cars got an Essex 4 cylinder 2.0, or the 3.0 Essex V6. European models got the baby ( BMWesque ) 2.0 Cologne 6 and up...
The big Ford's were very good cars for their time, but by the 90's Brits obsession with everything German made had taken hold - and aspirations for those with a bit of extra wedge weren't for bigger version's of a brand that was associated with cheap family hatchbacks ( Fiesta, Escort ).
Luxury 1974 - Body contoured seats & electronic digital clock
Luxury 2016- Parktronic & Night View Assist
I get your point but I don't really see gadgets as being luxurious.
I have an E60 BMW 530i, which is full of gadgets: voice activated blue-tooth phone, in-built sat-nav, cruise, auto lights and windscreen wipers but it doesn't _feel_ any more luxurious than my '87 Granada Scorpio. I'd say an '80s XJ12 or Rolls Royce is far more luxurious than a gadget-laden BMW.
Lewis72 You have forgotten your roots !
there's nothing electronic or digital about that clock because it's just mechanical gears with a electric motor, and technical seen it's about the same as the speedometer.
back in the days a right view miror ( or left for british cars) was a option, and mechanical ajusted mirrors were a luxury.
the ghia model with no extras, had no near side mirror. no remote mirror, no aircon, no cruse control, mw/lw radio, no cassette, . my modern (non ghia ) ford, has heated front screen, mirrors, elec adjust, with heated seats, not just aircon but climate, cruse , abs, cd./mp3/ bluetooth, digital radio along with rds fm, parkin sensors, gps and will dial emergency in a crash by itself. and its not a big luxury car with 8mpg as the granada was, cars have come a very long way including refinement and luxury
Loved the seventies vibe regarding the ad. All BS of course but they made you believe. I half expected CHiPs to appear behind the car at the start.
Charles Mc Carthy - that Granada Ghia advert has a VERY seventies vibe about it... right down to the driver's sports jacket.
Interestingly, this advert was filmed in South Africa (see my post elsewhere in this comment section) before we even got the Ghia model in this country.
Gene's car of choice, innit.
I bought one of these a few years ago. It was like new. Owned by a magistrate for 40 years. Left it at my dads garage and he sold it to a banger racer for £180. I find this too hard to talk about!
Richy Mick - wow, that's sad. I really do feel your pain.
PS: what colour was it?
wow i never really paid much attension to these befor, god now i want one, how come there not still making them...?
Because the design is obsolete and very few would buy one.
Because they stopped in 1977. 44 years ago.
Would sir prefer Brown or Beige
Had a 1976 3.0 GL automatic in 1984 very nice car apart from the fuel
My dad had a mk1 2.0 in red :)
Racing Slippers
My parents had a 2.0 L in diamond white.
Racing Slippers What year model?
Ford Fan 2904
I'm not sure about the year or model. all i remember yhat it had the sunroof and and a black vinyl top...so many great memories. This was in Ireland by the way. living in Canada now
I'll ask the old man next time i talk to him
Racing Slippers if it was a1974 Model or earlier and it was a 2.0 V4 it's likely it was not actually a Granada but a Consul which was identical but not as luxurious
Que bonito coche ojalá se hubiera vendido en México.
A classic car for a driver who love the ford Granada a great car for the 1974 3.0 Lita Ghia
I don't think air conditioning was ever offered as a UK option until the Mk2 Granada was launched...
Yeah I noticed that. Probably a South Africa option.
agreed, my dads ghia had no aircon, no passenger mirror (till he added it) and it didnt have the remote inside the car for them either, must all be things added later or german spec, it also didnt have headlight wipers , another german spec model i suspect
Mk 2 was a beauty, like senator.
Where was the horn button on the Mk1s?
You mean that little silver button at the end?
cant remeber if it was on a stalk or the wheel centre
Steering wheel centre John. You could operate it with either Thumb on the central spoke.
@@johndrake2729 The Granada/Consul had a weird column stalk set-up: Pressing the silver button switched the wipers on and off (a selector switch on the stalk toggled from slow to fast speed!), but the electric screenwash was a switch on the fascia. The horn was the central panel on the wheel.
I thought all the Fords in the 70s had the horn buttons on the column stalks.
I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY 3 GRANADAS
I'm not about to rough it in some Granada Ghia, I was top of the pops!
John Noble ..lol wasn't that some song lyric?
Yup !!
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I noticed they didn't mention the headrest on Granada Ghia, as if they just put them in as an afterthought.
Mark 1 was by far the best looking Granada.
Granada spot was filmed ...in Granada?
MIERDAENELESPACIO102, This Granada advert was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
But it would have been funny if it was filmed in Granada.😂😂😂
i wishd id had 2 mk1 granadas green and yellow
PAPAIJA7707 - In South Africa we got the Granada in deep metallic burgundy with a white vinyl top and biscuit colour interior.
Then we got a special model called the Burgundy Ghia with a burgundy vinyl top instead of the white.
"I want to fill the glove box with Mars bars, no Golden Wonder crisps, they interfere with radio transmission."
Mars bars, wine gums and Jelly babies. No potato crisps, they interfere with transmission,
An RHD car with an American voice over!!!
kamran khan - RHD car with American voice over... filmed in South Africa for British TV.
Great Cars in There Day I had one a 3.0 ltr gxl in Pearl Grey but like all Fords of that era they Rusted away
1:24 electronic digital clock 😀
Ghia Mk1 Granadas are quite rare nowadays , not as rare as the Granada S or the Consul 3.0 Gt but pretty rare
+FordCapri Driver We used to sell these back in the 70's. But, I have to say thatI have not seen one of these old Granada's for quite some years now.
+Gary Dunn they're still about but hey are rare un the UK due to the bloody Banger racers they've killed most of them ....
+FordCapri Driver Yeah, you are right, there was a track not far from whereI used to live, and you could hear the roar of the engines as these old carswere being destroyed around the track. I seem to remember we had quitea few old Yank cars in our town back then, and that's where most of themended up. The sound of a roaring V8 filled the air most Sunday afternoons.
all pre86 Fords are rare now , cos all the banger drivers used em , round Wimbo , Arena Essex and various other tracks :-(
+Huw Jones Yeah, same here in the North East. We had a Bangercircuit close to where I lived, and every Sunday I could hear theseold Classics, and many old Yank Tanks being destroyed every week.
beautiful to look at and great to drive but........ build quality, rust and rot, which is why they're rare as hens teeth today. And we did get excited over a digital clock in those days as unfortunately cars were what you call basic, Powered seats, air con, electric windows and central locking were things to dream of , they were not even offered as extras - didn't exist on most cards even top of the range. If they had it would probably have doubled the cost.
This car offered air-conditioning as an option which boosted comfort and wellbeing in summer and made travelling more bearable.
@pmailkeey But Ford Granada cars of that era didn't get a sunroof, so air conditioning was the only true way to a comfortable method of travel in a 70's Granada Ghia, in summer when you had hot sun beating down on a car, the heating and ventilation system would suck in hot air thru the fresh air vents of the dash whereas with air con fitted the interior would get cooler faster.
@@anthonyperkins7556- Granada Mk 1 of that era DID have sunroof as optional extra.
We didn't get the Granada name for our American Ford cars until a fee years later.
I don't know why that is.
@Edgar Grefve Naming a car can be an expensive business, what with the research and securing a copyright, what multinationals like Ford and GM do is collect these names in their songbooks, legally maintaining their exclusive use. So if due to changing world circumstances they have to rush a car to market to exploit this, they can quickly slap a name on it that they might have used decades ago ..or somewhere else.
Fire it up and your Jack Regan
This advert was filmed near where I live in Cape Town, South Africa, on the Du Toitskloof Mountain Pass just past Paarl. At 29 seconds, as the car is about to enter the tunnel, the tunnel name is clearly visible. Compare that scene to this Google Earth image of the same location:
www.google.co.za/maps/@-33.7304949,19.1077207,3a,75y,253.72h,96.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5GtLDrAomXJae8hg2rfZw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
And yes, I do own a Ford Granada Ghia.
Cameras in the 70s were in Brown and White, that's why you can see only a million shades of brown beige.
My car today doesn't have an all wave radio!
I love this car power with a cheeky stunting beautiful look to match.who can't love this car.konck out in every way the 1974 ford Granada Ghia m1
Oh how I dare to own a Ghia...
The only one worth considering was the 2000. It still did over 90 despite only having four gears. The 2500 and 3000 were appalling gas guzzlers.
I'd have a Granada before any modern hypercar.
And now nearly all mk1 and 2 granadas are dead due to banger racing
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I looked at the comment and knew instantly! That's how legendary the Sweeny was! 😃
Think MK1 Granada and think "The Sweeney" Probably the only decent looking car onthe show. Lets forget the beat up old Jag that the villains used to drive.
when the sweeney get the word to go
Their car in early episodes was a Consul GT. Quite the meatiest of the range at the time. But at the same time, a car that didn't know what it was meant to be.
Years later (and before I could drive legally) my boss had a 2.5 automatic and would throw me the keys when he arrived, so I could take it to the multi-storey. Beat part of the afternoon was being asked to fetch it for him at the end of the day.... At 17, a V6 Granada felt really quite a potent machine, even with a slushbox.
Thank God it has "three Dimensional Quartz Headlights"! Those crappy old two dimensional ones were rubbish!
Ha, ha, ha
David Gregory - yes, that was an amusing comment by the announcer.
"Three dimensional quartz headlamps" - they were quite huge things. Sadly today's headlamps are mostly two dimensional LED thingys.
i would love to paint it change oil from it and tyres and drive it
My father purchased a brand new GXL in 1972 and it was crap! Wiper blades fell off, sun roof leaked like a sieved the coloured lacquer on the rear light cluster faded after 6 months!
dunno why, my dads one was built in germany, was a decently made car
They were a mans car,no doubt😉
Why an American voice?
Dagenham dustbin lol
Ford should be make a new RWD Sedan instead a boring SUV's.
A real nostalgia fest. I had a Consul GT 3 litre back in the day, not a bad car but 1970s Fords were all rust buckets, unfortunately.
It makes me laugh how this top of the range European Ford doesn't even have electric seats or windows in 1974! Some American cars had driver airbags, abs and memory seats by then.
My Gran still had her coal delivered by horse and cart and stored in the Anderson shelter buried in the back garden in 1974 and only one house in the street had a telephone. Any one that had electric windows in their car back then would have been called a flash git and got beaten up. Now everybody drives about in German cars talking shit on iphones.
Ant Laud
"Now everybody drives about in German cars talking shit on iphones."
Bloody stereotypes !!!
(I have a 530i E60 and an iPhone 4S)
Ant Laud 😂😂😂
@@antman5474- very true what you say. People forget what 1974 was like. We still had hand-cranked telephones with party lines, wringer washing machines, Die Nagwa (truck that came after dark to pump the sewerage), cross-ply tyres and steam-hauled passenger trains in South Africa back then. A radio in a car was an optional luxury item in those days.
frog-in-the-throat narrator.
love these cheesy films but what is that accent!!!??
American.
weird 😕