Ford Tempo 80s commercial with Jackie Stewart

[47buckeddy]

"the best built north american cars" is not a rather convincing claim. poor jackie for having to lie about it, but props for doing what he had to do to earn a living lol.

[insculldrew]

The Ford Tempo is, and ever shall be, THE driver's car.

[disengagejam]

"A real drivers car" ... i hope he got paid a shit ton of money for this ad LOL

[MrGoldenwaffler]

these cars are sheer crap - dont let anyone tell you different. i know for a fact. 84 to 87 is even worse, if you can fathom that.

[JasonRadley]

He's driving on the wrong side of the road.

[AngryBuddhaVideos]

I had an '87 Tempo in '89. I loved driving that car. Little mitsubishi motor in it finally died the umpteenth time I tested the rev-limiter. The ride felt really 'euro' for the time in North America. The only downside was it needed monthly repairs. Just silly stuff. Heater core, sensors, fuel pump. Maybe if i didn't abuse it..

[Sincopare]

Oh this is painful...for a man with highly regarded credibility. That car was sh*t on wheels~

[the06bug]

If I hosted on Top Gear USA, I'd have a challenge involving this car, in one way or another. Not to make it look good, but to show just how rubbish the silly thing probably is. :)

[asprun]

"That's it forrr him todaaa Jim"

[DrClaw77]

if any of these were still on the road I would love to see it get critically "demolished" on a "Top Gear" type show. This car begs to have someone behind the wheel and declare it excrement on wheels, with the scene changing right as the chosen word to describe the excrement starts to come out of the reviewer's mouth.

[31rx7]

It's a driver's car....as long as the driver is a little old lady that only goes to church on Sunday.

[timwmartin]

Look at those beady little eyes telling everyone "Ford motorcars are the best in the whole wide world. And I'm not just saying that because Ford Motor Compay paid me ten million dollars to say so."

[ghhtdesfh]

A DRIVERS car?!? Is he kidding?!?

[g00dsir555]

holy shit they still use the same tagline 20 years later

[Vitaminous]

@g00dsir555: they're reusing it.

[songs1994]

what the hell is wrong with those wheels lol

[masterlee123]

Ford Tempo junk

[nicorossi]

lolcano at him praising its handling as it under and oversteers wildly on screen

[toonguy85]

I wish they had Jackie drive a Ford Fiesta!

[hmdwgf]

he was probably paid to say that... he probably hated that car

[silfocus84]

not sure what they were like in the 80's, and i don't think Ford purposely did it. I had a 94 Topaz(same thing just with Mercury badges) with the V6 and they surprisingly handle extremely well in all weather conditions and at high speeds once you replace the crap factory tires, better yet the wheels and tires. not too many cars I've had can do 60-70mph on a tight highway offramp. the light weight helped them out a lot. doesn't make it a driver's car though...

[Cjl99]

you can tell just by how he talks about it not so much the words but how he says them

[snipski0894]

@hmdwgf Of course he was XD

[fyldths]

pretty much all early 80's cars where rubbish. the corvette had cease fire injection till 84. the turbo trans am was a dog. the cadiliac cimeron.the fastest GM car was a buick V6 .stopped making those due to being faster than the vette TPI engine.

[Audioquest56]

A "driver's car"?!?!?!?

Please........

[akngac5]

Jackie Stewart, what a loser. Anyone who endorses a Tempo (short for temporary) as a real drivers car is a corporate sell out.

[HeyKid137]

i have a 93 and i cant kill it!

they dont die

[smoothvirus]

"It's a real drivers car."

Really? (facepalm)

[galoon]

As a previous (and never again!) Ford owner, I have to agree. I had a '95 Taurus. Worst car I ever saw or heard about. Ford couldn't build a snowman after a blizzard.

[jakesaintsrow123]

lol a snow man after a blizzered

[silfocus84]

oddly enough, big difference between tempo's and taurus... the taurus was too heavy and clunky, even though it shared the same transmissions and engines.... as much as they are "beater" cars like civics, camry's and other cars they pulled themselves out with the "import revolution," the tempo/topaz was a good car... just not stylish... back then they only Ford to get praise and mods was the Mustang

[motherjerker]

I had a Ford Tempo...The worst car EVER!!!

[cageo2207]

Looks like Jackie licked the slime out of the asshole of the highest bidder for a dollar. But I will say that I bought one of these from a used car dealer with mirror sunglasses when my Chevy S-10 died in the desert. That little Tempo had 120000 miles and served me well for another 40000 miles all around Kalifornia until the the tranmission quit. It was the best 800 dollars I've ever spent. That is why I buy nothing but Ford products now.

[DeBerry1]

LMAO. My sister flipped one of these over.

[maccuban8]

I meant to say. Tempo's are the shit.  They don't ride they glide. Best built car they ever made. I'd buy one before a BMW....

[maccuban8]

tiempos are shit,, you dont ride you glide....

[mosspower1]

you can see the first turn you se, that its understeering badly

[JakeCasablanca]

Hey Jackie the camera's over here!

[xargos]

Boy do I ever miss my old Tempos. I had an '87 and later a '94. Make fun all you want, but they really do handle superbly in wet and dry conditions. Extremely reliable in my experience, too.

[thelakersforlife]

wow is that a sweet car haha

[placekicker]

We had these as our cars in Driver's Ed when I took it back in 1984. They weren't horrible to drive, but geez were they ugly!

It was just a few years later though that Jackie was pimping "the new Ford Taurus".

[xScoobyDoo82x]

Haha, I had a 94 Tempo in drivers ed, just last year. The company makes the driving instructors use their own cars.

[jakesaintsrow123]

In 1984 you drove one? what did you think of it since it was New at the time?

[WICHOV4]

WHAT A PIECE OF $%$^*%()^)!!!!!!!!

[X92Exploder]

I'm a Ford guy but those cars are ugly, I'd love to see'em all smashed :)

[Glencie]

Wow. Jackie Stewart really sold his soul to Ford. I had a 80s Tempo. It would overheat, even while it was snowing, constantly break down and some of the inside paneling literally fell off. This car put me off American cars forever.

[jakesaintsrow123]

was it Brand new?

[Glencie]

@jakesaintsrow123 Yup. Brand new.

[jakesaintsrow123]

1984-1985 Model?

[Glencie]

@jakesaintsrow123 Yup.

[danzapata]

ugly wheels.

[AngryWhiteGurl]

My parents had a Tempo (hangs head in shame)

[awob2002]

Mine too. The engine caught on fire and we had to have it towed. Lol.

[maddog24637]

My parents had one and the transmission blew

[mrceleb2006]

Earl Mann voiced over this TV spot back then.

[kjv2286]

it makes a good yacht anchor

[Firemat]

I wonder how they paid him to do that commercial!! hahaha

[jmiller006]

probably with money.

[Firemat]

ugh no wayyyy are you serious? wooow and here I am thinking they paid him with apples and oranges..

[jmiller006]

no, it was definitely probably with money.

[Firemat]

oh cool man..thanks for informing me with the great info (Y)

[jmiller006]

yup, just a simple man giving some simple answers.

[cragmac1000]

Oh thats terrible, that is such a rubbish car I bet Jackie said afterward, I would rather light it on fire, drink gasoline and piss on it!

[jvanderide]

My first car was a tempo. My brother and two older cousins all drove it as their first car. By the time i got, it looked like a demo derby car. I hated it--and tried to kill it several times. Aside from needing a new alternator belt every month, that was very sturdy car.

[vipertruck05]

" a real drivers car " oh yes I would have to agree !!!!!!

[jacoboforlando]

Yes, the Tempo was a real driving machine. Nothing says performance like a tempo

[reynard89]

Looks like it handled like a boat to me. Just shows Stewart up as having no principles because he blatantly lied and misled the public, for money.

[imbok]

That car was a piece of crap...

[joh2]

And how much did Ford pay Jackie again to do this??? And did the Tempo ever win any races?

Could be worse though, apparently in the early 1960s Stirling Moss offered endorsement to the Bond THREE-WHEELER!!!

[imuimuimu]

I'd guess a lot by how much that car was leaning on its front outside tires during cornering. I mean were the shocks out of cheese

[sadeviant]

Money talks, I guess... :\

[MagicAyrtonforever]

He was one of their employees for a while.. I remember him advertising the Capri here in Britain.

[MagicAyrtonforever]

what a Liar :D

[Intersonus903]

Well, you know what they say....

"If there's a good paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."

[ITW84]

oh dear

jackie stewart flogging the yank version of the sierra

[dimkavenom]

@ITW84 the yank version of Ford Orion

[gentil79]

@dimkavenom Look closely to the door pillars. it is a yank version of the 4 door Sierra

[wardo999]

@gentil79 This car was much worse than the Sierra by a long shot. Just and awful, awful car!

[wardo999]

@gentil79 This car was much worse than the Sierra by a long shot. Just an awful, awful car!