This was Ford's last big executive car. Based on the old Granada, the idea was to give the old bus a facelift with a restyle that would separate it from the horde. And Ford certainly achieved that, the Scorpio's bug-eyed headlamps and fish mouth of a grille amazing the journalists who saw it first. But the make-over backfired, sales nose-diving as Granada-man revolted against the guppy-like front-end with its permanent look of surprise. As for the rear, with its weird and wavy strip of chrome: well, that looked like it was pinched from a different car altogether. Rare, and deservedly so.
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