Monday 26th March 1984

The Ford Escort was named the best-selling car in the world for the third year in a row. The Escort was the result of Ford’s attempt to design a “world car,” a car that could be sold with minor variations all over the world. It was Ford’s first successful sub-compact car and its features have become standard for cars in that class all over the world. The Escort was one of the first successes of Ford’s dramatic resurgence in the 1980s.