GRANDA COUPE
Fastback style, 3-litre Essex and subtle badging — it was the gentleman’s Q-car. Words Graham Robson Available in the UK in July 1974, the Granada Coupe was the latest good thing to happen to Ford’s large-car range in the early 1970s. In previous years, let’s be honest, the Zephyr/Zodiac Mk4 had been badly received, but the new Granada — launched in 1972 — had looked better, handled better, and was a much higher-quality machine.
Original Granadas were four-door saloons or big estates, all built on a 109 inch wheelbase with all-independent suspension. Ford’s styling subsidiary, Ghia of Turin, then buckled down and produced a sleek two-door fastback coupe version of the car, which looked great. Somehow, and without destroying the looks, they had added larger doors, and rear…
