HIGH HOPES

If you wanted a car for use over unmade mountain roads, would a Mk4 Zephyr be your first choice? Maybe not, but it’s what the BBC picked in 1971 for testing in the High Andes. But this was no ordinary Mk4. It was a four-wheel drive one (4wd), using the same Ferguson Formula four-wheel drive as the Mk4s that operated with police forces around the UK from 1969. This particular car, YRK 444H wasn’t a police car, though. It was allocated to the British School of Motoring’s