"Cheap to run, plentiful and with a universal appeal, this supermini outsold many larger Fords and still tops the used sales charts. In the summer of 1976, we may have been smouldering in 36C heat and smarting from the latest sterling crisis, but it wasn’t all bad news: Concorde had just flown with its first paying customers, British driver James Hunt was on his way to being crowned Formula 1 World Champion – and Ford had just revealed an all-new model that was, for the next 50 years, to dominate UK car sales. It was called the Fiesta. Production stopped in 2023 after seven generations and 4.8 million sales in this country alone...."
The Ford Fiesta is 50 – why it’s remained Britain’s best-seller:-
https://archive.ph/BmoDi
