The final of the UK’s finest promoting automobile mannequin might be made right this moment as Ford’s Cologne manufacturing facility produces the ultimate Fiesta.

The final two Fiestas are reported to be held by Ford. One might be saved in Germany, the opposite will go to the corporate’s UK heritage centre.

The German plant is being tailored to supply extra electrical automobiles, pushing out Fiesta manufacturing, within the transfer to affect automobiles to lowered CO2 emissions.

The mannequin was the UK’s best-selling car with 4,804,098 bought in complete, in response to knowledge from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

After first appearing in UK showrooms in 1976, it spent years on the high of finest promoting automobiles lists.

It outpaced the Ford Escort, the second best-selling automobile within the UK, by multiple million gross sales. Even final 12 months it was the tenth hottest new automobile – greater than 25,000 had been registered.

Globally, greater than 22 million Fiestas have been produced.

The automobile obtained its identify from its Spanish roots – the Fiesta was first produced in Valencia in 1975.

Designed to be low-cost to run, the Fiesta was created in response to the 1973 oil disaster, when the worth of gasoline rocketed.

UK manufacturing of the mannequin started in 1977 within the well-known Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex.

Ford has made cuts to its UK workforce in current months with as much as 1,000 jobs being axed at its website in Dunton, Essex – its UK headquarters and technical centre.

When greater than a thousand job losses were announced by the automobile maker in March Ford was express in saying the enterprise restructuring is going on as a result of transition to totally electrical and the lowered car complexity.

Production of the Focus may also stop in 2025 as Ford goals to have an electric-only fleet in Europe by 2035.

Sales of latest petrol and diesel automobiles and vans might be banned in the UK from 2030.