Ford got more mileage out of the Fox platform than pretty much any since the Model T, and today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fairmont is where it all began. Let’s see if nostalgia and some ...

Brake credit goes to Ford’s factory 13-inch Cobra front discs and 10-inch Aerostar drums in the rear. The Fairmont caught our eye at the local Pleasanton, California, Goodguys autocross.

The compact Fairmont, which in 1978 replaced the eight-year-old Maverick, was the first Ford model downsized for the sake of fuel efficiency. The Fairmont was designed to provide the gas mileage ...

The year was 1979. Jimmy Carter was president, the United States was experiencing its second energy crisis in a decade, and Ford was launching a new Mustang pla ...

This 1978 Fairmont has all the right features to become a daily driver with minor fixes; the car was recently pulled from a barn ...

Ford began selling cars on the rear-wheel-drive Fox platform for the 1978 model year, and production of the lightweight, modern Fox machines continued all the way through 1993 (or 2004, if you ...