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The most obscure Fords ever sold

Last week, we marked Ford turning 120 years old in June with a celebration on this page of the most famous and impactful cars that Ford has made (so far). This week, we’re going to the other end of the scale to unearth the rarest and most forgotten models ever to wear a Blue Oval – either long-forgotten cars or very rare derivatives from otherwise popular model lines.

Ford Sierra GLS 4x4

There is, of course, nothing obscure at all about the Ford Sierra in general: it was one of the top-selling cars of the 1980s. But some individual models are very rare and this is certainly the case with the GLS 4x4, which was produced for a very brief period in 1989. Mechanically, it was identical to the much more famous XR 4x4. Both cars were powered at this time by the fuel-injected 150bhp 2.9-litre V6 Cologne engine (although the XR had started out with a 2.8-litre version of the same unit), but the GLS was cheaper and less flashy.

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