Ford Pinto
Offered with an inline-4 engine and bucket seats the Pinto's mechanical design was conventional, with unibody construction, a longitudinally mounted engine in front driving the rear wheels through either a manual or automatic transmission and live axle rear end. Suspension was by unequal-length control arms with front coil springs; the live rear axle was suspended on leaf springs. The rack and pinion steering had optional power assist, as did the brakes.
Ford Cortina
The early Mark III Cortinas came with the same 1300 and 1600cc engines as the Mark II Cortinas, except for the 1600cc GXL. These engines are known as the Kent, crossflow engine or over head valve (OHV) engine. There was also the introduction of the 2000 cc engine, the single overhead cam engine, now known as the Pinto engine. The OHV "Kent" unit was fitted with a single choke carburetor and was used for the early models up to GT trim, the SOHC twin choke carburetor "Pinto" unit was used for the GT and GXL models. The GXL was also offered in 1600 in the later Cortina Mark IIIs.