{"id":11497,"date":"2019-08-09T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:47:55","slug":"english-fiesta-when-ford-industrializes-at-last-the-front-drive-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=11497","title":{"rendered":"ENGLISH &#8211; Fiesta: when Ford industrializes &#8211; at last ! &#8211; the front drive wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOGOArchives_BD-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est LOGOArchives_BD-300x108.jpg.\" width=\"279\" height=\"100\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LIGNES\/auto is also a Facebook page in English : <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lignesauto\/?modal=admin_todo_tour\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lignesauto\/?modal=admin_todo_tour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LIGNESFIESTA_05-1024x731.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est LIGNESFIESTA_05-1024x731.png.\" width=\"824\" height=\"588\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first generation of Ford Fiesta (1976) to enter the market four years after the Renault 5 was designed by Tom Tjaarda, who died in 2017. It was above all the first small sedan of the American giant, which is also a front-wheel drive. At the end of the 1960s, Ford US asked itself whether it was time to make a clear attack on the European market and therefore follow the trend: to embark on the race for a small city car with front-wheel drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IGNESFIESTA_04-1024x716.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est IGNESFIESTA_04-1024x716.png.\" width=\"805\" height=\"563\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Renault stylist Michel Bou\u00e9 is designing a strange little urban car that will become the R5, Ford is calling on his consultant Ghia to try to find a solution to rival the one that all automakers have in their sights : the Fiat 127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LIGNESFIESTA_01-1024x779.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est LIGNESFIESTA_01-1024x779.png.\" width=\"805\" height=\"612\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Tjaarda designed a perfect design for a light, three-door sedan, lightweight (700 kg) and entrusted Ford with the task of developing it with CAD: &#8220;computer-aided design&#8221;, a major innovation of the early 1970s in design and engineering offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LIGNESFIESTA_02-1024x780.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est LIGNESFIESTA_02-1024x780.png.\" width=\"808\" height=\"615\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Internally, the project is very widely followed and (a little) modified by Uwe Bahnsen who was the pilot of the brand&#8217;s design until 1986 after joining Ford in 1958. He will end his career with\u2026 Patrick Le Qu\u00e9ment ! Both of them signed the surprising first generation Ford Sierra in 1982. The Ford Fiesta arrived on the French market in 1976 with Robert Broyer&#8217;s new Renault 14, which was also designed with CAD and the Unisurf system. If the Renault could count on ponies in its first advertising campaign &#8220;the 7CV of happiness&#8221;, the little Ford was acclaimed by Roger Moore himself ! (see below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IGNESFIESTA_03-1024x871.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est IGNESFIESTA_03-1024x871.png.\" width=\"804\" height=\"683\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOGOArchives_BD-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est LOGOArchives_BD-300x108.jpg.\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIGNES\/auto is also a Facebook page in English : https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lignesauto\/?modal=admin_todo_tour The first generation of Ford Fiesta (1976) to enter the market four years after the Renault 5 was designed by Tom Tjaarda, who died in 2017. 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