Filling Fairmont's shoes for 1984 was a new entrance-drive compact called Tempo, a notchback four-door and coupelike two-door with "jellybean" styling on a 99.9-inch chassis with suspension much like Escort's. Numerous refinements marked Escort's evolution through 1990. There were at all times three-door hatchbacks and four-door wagons, plus hatchback sedans after 1981. All rode a 94.2-inch wheelbase and...
