Start with what the Ford Anglia is: a 2-door saloon / 2-door tourer (Australia) / 2-door roadster (Australia) with 933 cc Ford Sidevalve engine, built from 1939 to 1967, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Ford Anglia is a small family car that was designed and manufactured by Ford of Britain. It is related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. The Anglia name was applied to various models between 1939 and 1967. In total, 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. It was replaced by the Ford Escort. Unique variants of the Anglia were produced by Ford Australia and by the Italian subsidiary of Ford.
The hardware
The engine is 933 cc Ford Sidevalve engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 3 speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 90 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Ford line-up the Ford Anglia has a clear place: it replaced the Ford 7Y; it handed the line to the Ford Escort; the factory was Dagenham. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Patrol, the Mini Mini, the Dodge Challenger. Its Ford stablemates include the Ford 021C and the Ford Escort.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Ford Anglia — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.