“The Ford Anglia means real ‘pleasure in motoring’. It is a pleasure to drive, a pleasure to ride in, a pleasure to own.”
Everything is tiny on this Ford Anglia from Cienfuegos, and it’s apparently only “a pleasure to ride in” if you are of smaller stature. Once inside, you’d probably be happy that the skinny car can’t surpass a top speed of 57 mph (92 km/h) which is impressive, considering that its tiny 933cc (56.9 cu-in) engine only churns out 23 hp.
The Anglia looked already dated when it was new. The 1949 makeover wore the same body as the previous generation from 1939. Only the front end received a streamlined redesign, but those “BMW-kidneys” arguably didn’t make the car look much better than the original design. Yet, marketing cars requires some “newness” every once in a while, to keep the customers interested. And regardless of its old-school look, the Anglia held one coveted selling point: it was one of the cheapest cars you could buy anywhere on the planet. Hence, 108,878 Ford Anglia found happy takers in the 4-year long production run. Even after introducing the all-new third Generation in 1953, Ford kept on selling the outgoing Anglia as a price-cutter until 1959, now rechristened as Ford Popular.
Everything is tiny on this Ford Anglia from Cienfuegos, and it’s apparently only “a pleasure to ride in” if you are of smaller stature. Once inside, you’d probably be happy that the skinny car can’t surpass a top speed of 57 mph (92 km/h) which is impressive, considering that its tiny 933cc (56.9 cu-in) engine only churns out 23 hp.
The Anglia looked already dated when it was new. The 1949 makeover wore the same body as the previous generation from 1939. Only the front end received a streamlined redesign, but those “BMW-kidneys” arguably didn’t make the car look much better than the original design. Yet, marketing cars requires some “newness” every once in a while, to keep the customers interested. And regardless of its old-school look, the Anglia held one coveted selling point: it was one of the cheapest cars you could buy anywhere on the planet. Hence, 108,878 Ford Anglia found happy takers in the 4-year long production run. Even after introducing the all-new third Generation in 1953, Ford kept on selling the outgoing Anglia as a price-cutter until 1959, now rechristened as Ford Popular.
What looks cartoonish today was a proper motor car in the United Kingdom of 1949. Back then, anything European certainly looked tiny from an American perspective. The huge lifestyle discrepancy on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean becomes evident when you compare the quirky British Ford with the modern design that Ford offered at the same time in the U.S..
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