Is the Ford Zephyr a good car to buy?
Is the Ford Zephyr a good car to buy?
Period road testers complimented the Fords on their light controls and great combination of a smooth ride and good cornering, though heavily front-biased weight distribution on both the ‘four’ and the ‘six’ caused wheelspin on slippery surfaces and made the tail step out if cornered hard in the wet; radial tyres help.
What was the original name of the Ford Zephyr?
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. Initially the four cylinder version was named Ford Consul but from 1962 both four- and six-cylinder versions were named Zephyr.
What was the top speed of a 1955 Ford Zephyr?
The engine had a higher compression ratio – 7.5:1 instead of 6.8:1 – increasing the maximum power to 71 bhp (53 kW). A car tested by The Motor magazine in 1955 had a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 20.2 seconds.
Which is faster a Ford Consul or Zephyr?
Gone was the old sidevalve V8, replaced by a state-of-the-art oversquare 1508cc ‘four’ and a six-cylinder version with the same bore and stroke (for commonality of internal parts), giving 2262cc. The Consul was 5mph faster than the V8-Pilot and the Zephyr was an 80mph car.
Period road testers complimented the Fords on their light controls and great combination of a smooth ride and good cornering, though heavily front-biased weight distribution on both the ‘four’ and the ‘six’ caused wheelspin on slippery surfaces and made the tail step out if cornered hard in the wet; radial tyres help.
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. Initially the four cylinder version was named Ford Consul but from 1962 both four- and six-cylinder versions were named Zephyr.
What was the top speed of a 1956 Ford Zephyr?
A car tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1956 had a top speed of 87.9 mph (141.5 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 17.1 seconds. A fuel consumption of 21.5 miles per imperial gallon (13.1 L/100 km; 17.9 mpg ‑US) was recorded. The test car cost £968 including taxes.
Gone was the old sidevalve V8, replaced by a state-of-the-art oversquare 1508cc ‘four’ and a six-cylinder version with the same bore and stroke (for commonality of internal parts), giving 2262cc. The Consul was 5mph faster than the V8-Pilot and the Zephyr was an 80mph car.
