Ford Orion

1980s SALES 384,381 ON THE ROAD IN 1995 456,767 NOW 332 SURVIVAL RATE 0.09% Ford was rightly concerned that its customers still yearned for a saloon after the Cortina went, and its solution was the Escort-based Orion. The formula worked: it regularly appeared in the top 10 best-sellers list. It carried on into 1993, but the death rate since has been steep, not helped by the lack of any notable performance variants.