Zephyr was also a Ford model in Britain, New Zealand and Australia. The Ford Fairmont was also marketed in Venezuela as a Ford Zephyr.

Ford had a lot of stylish styling proposals for the 1979 Mustang but they settled on something that looks like it was meant to be the updated Pinto, which it pretty much was in the base model form after the Pinto was discontinued.

9Such a forgettable rebadge. It was not even different enough from the Daytona to be interesting. Chrysler had no business marketing a sporty coupe under their luxury brand name.

My opinion was that they looked more stylish and modern than the boxy sedan-looking Fox Mustangs. 

Shitbox and always a shitbox.

It evokes memories of the 1980 Dodge Diplomat I got my driver’s license in. Brown 4-door with tan vinyl room and matching all vinyl interior with bench seats. 

They were uni-body cars. No separate frame.

What the Ford EXP only wishes it could be....

It’s like how 1970s compact cars are considered full-sized now in exterior dimensions.

Just for trivia, the 1979 Mustang 5.0 was one of the first domestic cars to use a serpentine belt and pulley arrangement.

Firt thing I noticed too, but then again the front end has mismatched primer/coloring on the headlamp bezels as if this was damaged and pieced back together with whatever could be found or preferred.

The Fox body mustang was manufactured in Ford’s Cuatitlan Itzcalli plant (located in Mexico City) from 1979 to 1984. Both the Coupe and the Hatchbacks were offered.

Actually the European Capri was not sold or badged as a Mercury. It was a captive import just labeled Capri or Capri II marketed by Lincoln-Mercury dealers without any divisional badging. Even the marketing materials only listed it as a Capri without Mercury in front of it.

Mexican built Mustangs in the mid-1980s used the Capri bubble hatch and rear end styling and alternately used Capri front ends.

It’s quite laughable that the vehicle, a 1983 with a 5.0 H.O. engine, is pictured using the 14" turbine wheel covers that originated on the Fairmont/Zephyr models. Ford really wanted you to spend the extra money for the expensive TRX metric sized tire and wheel package by offering wimpy undersized tires and wheels…

It's Continental Mark III not Lincoln Continental Mark III.

Sure have them continue building an outdated design that already looks like Opels and Impalas from the mid 2000s.

Buick just needs to die for North America. 

The Comet was definitely a stand alone marque until the 1962 model and even many of the dealerships had neon Comet signs like Ford, Mercury, Lincoln and Continental. Regardless of the division that managed them and dealers they were marketed in Comets were initially stand alone marques within the division.

That Edsel has custom browed headlamp bezels from some other donor car. It looks much better this way than the non-browed ones that came with the car.