As Gary Witzenburg explained in the April 1984 issue of Motor Trend magazine, "both Ford and Chrysler were working on new economy cars called Falcon ... so Henry Ford II put on the charm and ...

Ford introduced the Falcon for the 1960 model year, as a response to the car-buying public's growing interest in smaller, simpler cars than the larger, more stylized cars that characterized the '50s.

Ford moved 681,000 Mustangs in 1965 alone, while Falcon production for 1964 and '65 combined was around a quarter-million ...

As full-size cars were becoming increasingly ... the rear-engined and rather unusual Corvair, Ford designed the more conventional Falcon. Notably smaller and lighter than anything else in the ...