1982 Ford Sierra Brochure Scan

[inconsistant]

Dated Oct 1982, so I'm guessing this is the launch brochure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Shep Shepherd]

I recall being in awe of the first Sierra I ever saw in the autumn of 1982 (a red 1.6L in my primary school's car park, if my memory serves me well). I'd love to own a Y-reg example of the breed one day

[HMC]

Must have been a shock for the dyed in the wool cortinaist!

 

Very Futuristic feel to it. I half expected Laser Wheels white Ghia to pop out of the page

[Alexg]

That ultra povo spec on 13" steels with the mask of Zoro nose and no side strips is frickin magic

[Stixy]

Im realy enjoying all this Sierra based reading on here lately  

[laser wheels]

Top stuff!

 

 

That ultra povo spec on 13" steels with the mask of Zoro nose and no side strips is frickin magic

 

Awesome, isn't it?

[Spiny Norman]

I love how they made the povo spec one with some unique bits like the all plastic door cards instead of the cloth inserts the Ls & above came with. They really went out their way to make you trade up from the misery model didn't they?

[bub2006]

Been a wheel since i posted on this site but have been reading topics. I can not recall ever seeing in person a Sierra so basic as to have a grey nose! No clock or stereo with a 1.3 engine. Stuff dreams are made of!

[charlie2555]

A base spec early Sierra would be my dream car.... Love them so much!

[rml2345]

Having had aero shaped mainstream motors for so long now you almost forget what a revolution the Sierra really was. Compared to the Cortina it's like something NASA dropped off.

I wonder how many of those super base Sierras with deliberately miserable finish they actually sold?

[Richard]

The Sierra and Mk3 Escort saved Vauxhall, and possibly the whole European GM operation. The Insignia is Ford's fault.

[Vince70]

I had a mate who bought a red 1.3 base model and it was horrid...He only bought the car because it was in Arsenal colours.. It didn't last long as he crashed it..

 

It must of actually cost Ford more money to produce certain one off components for the base model.

 

But I guess it made people find the extra cash and splash out on an L spec.

[twosmoke300]

Am i easily confused ?

 

I thought the Sierra saloon was the sapphire , or did they just call the pov spec one a saloon cos it had no rear wiper?

 

Nice scans tho , missing my 2.3 gld saph now .

[Vince70]

It was still a hatchback in 1983 the saloon didn't come out till the facelift..

It was just better to call it a saloon than a Sierra tight wad..

 

Or as known in the the trade as an ELW (Entry level Wan@£!)

[fordperv]

I have a 1.6 base 3 door which came with droopy mirrors but that came with a body coloured nose, I stupidly modified the car, in my defense it was mainly because it was fecked lol

[Stixy]

Unofficialy  Dealers offered to paint grey grilles body colour for a few ££ more thats why there were never many about  because if the first owner was to tight to pay  the second owner wasnt  .

 

Also remember a lot were scrapped early due to terminal rot , i was getting scrap Y reg Sierra's that needed wings doors sills and arches at the time H reg was new  so they would have only been 7 / 8 years old   and good front pannel was allways one of the first things to sell   so were parcel shelves 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've always been a sad loser,this tale proves it.

For my 19th birthday ,my choice of present was a weekend hire of a Ford Sierra 1.6 L. This was February 1983, so there weren't many about, I loved it and did 2000 miles in that weekend. Everybody referred to it as a jelly mould and the Ford launch publicity that good,everybody knew exactly what it was,even my Grandma who lived up a mountain in deepest darkest Mid-Wales,and she didn't realise for 3 years that my Grandad had changed his white triumph 1300 for a brown 2000.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I saw the Sierra at the 1982 NEC and saw a grey Sierra Misery on the M42 on the way there in Fatha Bluejean's 1700 Princess. He got a Sierra in sept 83, a cardinal red 2.0GL A708HFA with the opshunul sunroof and 5 speed box, and did around 125'000 miles in 2-3 years with utter reliabiity.

I had three early ones, two beiges and a crystal green 1.6L YGY 914Y that I weighed in in 1997. Nothing wrong with it bar some flaky laquer and no rot. It was just old and worthless. Today I feel like a twat for doing it but if I hadn't the next owner would have. Shocking how few are left. They were so much better than the Cortina.

[Shep Shepherd]

It's interesting to note that early Sierras were available with heated seats as an optional extra, a fact that I wasn't aware of before I saw the scans. I wonder how many were actually fitted with them?

[londonm]

I hired a Sierra in the late eighties, loved it. This car was revolutionary along with the Pug 205 and Mk2 Astra. They still look fresh today, but the Sierra was the most important by far.

[CortinaDave]

I had a B reg red 1300 misery spec in about 1998. sadly by that point theyd done away with the grey grille but it stil had the dangly mirrors and the super-shit hubcaps

 

It was grim transport. 45 flat out when faced with any kind of incline. It did do about 40mpg though, and was too slow for me to cause too much trouble in - probably a good thing as an 18 year old just through my test.

 

Fanny magnet it was not. Eventually i scraped together the cash to buy an E reg 1400 sport Fiesta mk2 that felt like a McLaren F1 after the Sierra.

 

Struggled to sell it, and it was at the time scrappies charged you to take cars in. Eventually I managed to find it a new owner who paid me all of £65 for it.

[fordperv]

It's interesting to note that early Sierras were available with heated seats as an optional extra, a fact that I wasn't aware of before I saw the scans. I wonder how many were actually fitted with them?

 

i have only ever seen 1 mk1 with heated seats it was a 2.0 german import it also had headlamp wash, that was in a scrappies safe to say i popped the switches out of it and wiring plugs and popped them in with my spare parts

[Shep Shepherd]

i have only ever seen 1 mk1 with heated seats it was a 2.0 german import it also had headlamp wash, that was in a scrappies safe to say i popped the switches out of it and wiring plugs and popped them in with my spare parts

 

Were the switches fitted to the blanks either side of the ashtray? For years, I have wondered what they were intended to contain.

[fordperv]

yes they were fitted there shep, at one point i used them on my mk1 when i put scorpio leather in there so everything worked and looked factory

 

seeming as though they are a bit mythical now ive just dug the switches out and heres a pic of the switches so everyone knows what they look like

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

My A reg 2.3 Ghia auto that I had in 1988 had heated seats......mmmmm warm blue velour.

I'm sure it didn't have electric boot release though ,which is shown as standard on Ghias. Although it was a facelift,ie no ribbed light but it had Kinnock fins and 14" pepper pots .

[Grundig]

A mates dad had a povo spec 3dr - the body colour was like grey primer lacquered. A black boot spoiler was added to it a few years later 

[Stixy]

A mates dad had a povo spec 3dr - the body colour was like grey primer lacquered. A black boot spoiler was added to it a few years later 

 

Ford Polar grey    looks like shiny primer 

 

I like the colour 

[srad34]

My Uncle was a shop fitter for KwikSave back in the 80's, I remember after Cortina's, when he got his first Sierra Estate, it was a grey base model (uber grimm), A109 RMB*, he had a new one's every other year until '98 (fortunately it was a better spec).

They were the good 'ol days when a company car was tax free!

 

I remember these cars well as me an my sis used to sit in the boot and wave at cars behind! 

 

My dad also worked for KwikSave head office, he bought one of the 1987 Sierra 1.6 Estate pool cars and kept it till the late 90's when the paper mache content was higher than metal and the MOT tester called time.........  

 

*Noted as Red by the DVLA......urmmmmm?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Kinnock fins .

ROFLOLOL

 

A new phrase is born.

[Des]

The first Sierra I ever saw was a Gardai one, when I was at school in Mullingar Ireland. On the walk up the main Street to the chippy at lunchtime it passed us repeatedly, each time a different Gard driving with a big stupid Paddy grin on their face, all excitable as their usual ride at that time was something like a Renault 4 as all they used to do was enforce dog licences and assist the detectives in high profile cases of bicycle theft. One day they used it to pull Mad Dog Mc Glinchy on the Dublin Road, he left the Gards cowering naked in the ditch and gave the poor Sierra a peppering with a machine gun.