Ford’s one-year-only Canada model.
It has been traditionally typical for American-brand sellers in Canada to supply expanded product lineups, typically to provide a marque better attraction to consumers on the lookout for one thing both roughly costly than may in any other case be provided.
Frontenac: Forgotten Automobile Manufacturers
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One motive for that is that Canada’s inhabitants density is far decrease than that within the U.S., so automobile makers wanted to attraction to bigger teams of consumers with fewer shops. Because of this, Ford, for instance, usually offered a premium mannequin which may attraction to potential Mercury consumers, and Mercury usually had a mannequin on the low finish of its lineup to attraction to conventional Ford patrons.
1960 Frontenac
An instance of this cross advertising got here—briefly—for the 1960 mannequin 12 months. That 12 months Ford of Canada launched the Frontenac to provide Mercury-Meteor sellers a low-price compact automobile to promote.
Ford Falcon
Frontenac was a separate model, like Mercury was to Ford—however was offered by Mercury shops. Produced for the 1960 mannequin 12 months solely, the Frontenac was primarily a Ford Falcon that includes a singular front- and rear-end remedy, and a few particular trim bits.
Inbuilt Canada, the Frontenac offered moderately effectively by Canadian requirements, with consumers snapping up nearly 10,000 examples. The Falcon clone was provided in coupe, sedan, and wagon physique types, with the wagon arriving late within the mannequin 12 months.
Mercury Comet
For 1961, the Frontenac model disappeared, and the Frontenac automobile was changed by the mechanically equivalent—and equally worth–Mercury Comet, which was already on sale within the States.
The Frontenac title had been used beforehand for a mannequin produced by New York carmaker Dominion Motors between 1931 and 1933 for autos assembled and offered in Canada.
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