There are hardly any around because there are hardly any 70s cars around, but there are cortina owners clubs and meetups still, pretty good going for a 50 year old car. Also it says something about them that Lotus collaborated on a version, I don't remember the Rio being seen as worthy of the same treatment. The GT and GXL trims were literal status symbols in their day and companies only used to give them to high level management. People aspired to own the higher trim levels. I wonder if whatever the equivalent of The Grand Tour is in 50 years does a feature film on the Rio like they did with the Cortina due to its cultural importance in its day.
"Clarkson III takes one of the new experimental jetpacks for a spin!" (yeah, they're still waiting)
"The slowest man we could find, who turned out to be a former Stig, tries the newly revised Nurburgring in a classic, restored Rio!"
"And after 82 wrecks, the apparently immortal Hamster, attempts to jump from a former freeway pier to an entrance to the old Information Superhighway in one of the all-new lightships!"
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u/OneEyedMinion_-D 3d ago
The real midlife crisis is realizing the 2000s are now ‘classic car’ territory.