The UK’s most popular car – the Ford Fiesta – is coming to the end of the road after 47 years of production.

Ford has announced that June, 2023 will mark the end of the line for the Fiesta which has clocked up 22 million sales and is currently in its seventh generation.

The company is also ending production of the S-Max and Galaxy MPVs in 2023 as it presses ahead with its electrification plans.

In a statement Ford said: “As we get ready to transition to an electric future, we will discontinue production of S-Max and Galaxy in Valencia, Spain, in April 2023 and discontinue Fiesta production in Cologne, Germany, by end of June 2023.”

Sales of the Fiesta have been on the wane recently with the supermini being overtaken by the Vauxhall Corsa and Ford’s Puma crossover SUV.

The statement concluded: “At Ford in Europe, we are accelerating our efforts to go all-in on electrification with our passenger vehicles being fully electric by 2030 – and all vehicles across our Ford portfolio by 2035.

“We will introduce three new exciting electric passenger vehicles and four new electric commercial vehicles in Europe by 2024. We plan to sell more than 600,000 electric vehicles in the region by 2026, and the electric passenger vehicle production at the Cologne Electrification Centre will reach 1.2 million vehicles over a six-year timeframe.”

The Fiesta has been sold in a variety of body styles over the years. As well as sporty ST and XR2 versions it has also been produced with SUV-like styling with the Fiesta Active.

When it arrived here in the UK back in 1977, the Fiesta cost just £1,856. Current models are priced from around £16,600 and it’s a car that topped the sales charts for 12 consecutive years until 2020.