Ford pulls out all stops to create ideal supermini

John-Joe Vollans assesses the evolution of the hot hatch through two very different examples

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We celebrate six decades of the Ford Transit – the commercial vehicle and workhorse as crucial to the UK motor industry as the Mini

Ford’s £400m Project Triton developed the MkIII Transit and staved off growing European competition

The 1990s was not a decade short of ground-shaking cultural reference points: the Britpop battle between Oasis and Blur, Tony Blair and his ‘New Labour’ government, Dolly the sheep… The car industry s