Arena (1975)

The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982x1)

Air date: Jan 19, 1982

A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2 - Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. "Dagenham dustbin"? "Poor man's Rolls-Royce"? In the year that may well see the end of a legend, some of the motoring public, including Sir John Betjeman, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Sir Terence Beckett and Magnus Magnusson take apart the Ford Cortina.