Ford C 100

Ford C 100

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MarqueFord
Race record3 (C100) / 1 (Zakspeed C1/4) / 5 (Zakspeed C1/8) wins from 19 (22 entries, C100) / 20 (21 entries, Zakspeed C1/4) / 47 (50 entries, Zakspeed C1/8) races · Drivers_champ = 1984 Interserie (Zakspeed C1/8) championships

The Ford C 100 is one of 571 Ford models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Ford C 100, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ford C 100 reads like this: the record lists its engine as gasoline engine; kerb weight is recorded at 880 kg. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ford story

Within Ford's own catalogue the Ford C 100 sits alongside the Ford 021C (1999), the Ford Escort (2015), the Ford Comète, the Ford Köln. The record names the Successor = as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Len Bailey.

On the record

The Ford C 100 also has a competition record: 3 (C100) / 1 (Zakspeed C1/4) / 5 (Zakspeed C1/8) recorded wins from 19 (22 entries, C100) / 20 (21 entries, Zakspeed C1/4) / 47 (50 entries, Zakspeed C1/8) starts and Drivers_champ = 1984 Interserie (Zakspeed C1/8) championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Ford C 100 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Kerb weight880 kg
DesignerLen Bailey
PredecessorSuccessor =
Catalogue IDQ1406619

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

Ownership verdicts are computed from NHTSA complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, re-priced for your country. Verdicts are published per model year as the data is ingested — browse them live, or open the true-cost calculator to price any year yourself.

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