Question: The Mercury Tracer was based on a variation of what small family car made between 1963 and 2003?

Context articles: DR1 (car)
DAF 600
Lancia Ardea
Lloyd Arabella
Škoda Popular
Mazda Familia
Mercury Tracer
DAF Daffodil
Izh 2125
Mercury Lynx

DR 1 is a small family car from the Italian car manufacturer DR Motor Company.
 The car was shown at the motor show in Bologna and entered the Italian car market in 2009.
 It has a design similar to the Chevrolet Spark.
 The car had a version with 5 doors.
The DAF 600 is a small family car that was DAF's first production passenger car: it was first presented at the Amsterdam Motor Show in February 1958 and was in production by 1959, although the firm had published the first details of the car at the end of 1957.
 It was available until 1963.
The Lancia Ardea was a small family car produced Italian car manufacturer Lancia between 1939 and 1953.
 Its unusually short bonnet reportedly contained the smallest V4 engine ever commercialized in a small family car
The Lloyd Arabella was a passenger car produced by the Borgward Group in West Germany between 1959 and 1961.
 After the company's controversial bankruptcy the Arabella continued to be produced, albeit in greatly reduced quantities, and now branded as the Borgward Arabella till 1963.
 By the standards of the time and place it would have been defined as a small family car.
Škoda Popular was a 1930s Czechoslovak small family car made by Škoda.
 It was the company's most affordable car at the time.
The Mazda Familia, also marketed prominently as the Mazda 323 and Mazda Protegé, was a small family car that was manufactured by Mazda between 1963 and 2003.
 The Familia line was replaced by the Mazda3/Axela for 2004.
The Mercury Tracer is a compact car that was marketed by Mercury from 1987 for the 1988 model year until 1999.
 The replacement for the Ford Escort-derived Lynx, the first generation of the Tracer was a modified version of the Asia-Pacific market Ford Laser, itself a variant of the Mazda 323.
 In 1990 for the 1991 model year, the Tracer became the Mercury counterpart of the Ford Escort in North America.
 All three generations of the Tracer were based on variations of the Mazda 323/Protegé.
The DAF Daffodil is a small family car that was manufactured by DAF from 1961 until 1967.
 It replaced the DAF 600.
 At the same time DAF launched the DAF 750 which was essentially the same car but with less luxurious fittings and less chrome trim on the outside.
 The Daffodil was conceived as an export version of the 750, market response dictated that the 750 ceased production in 1963 while the Daffodil, benefitting from a succession of mild face lifts, remained in production until 1967.
 The Daffodil was replaced by the very similar but slightly more powerful DAF 33.
The IZh 2125 "Kombi" (Russian: ИЖ-2125 Комби, short for "combination") is a compact car produced by the Soviet car manufacturer IZh from 1973 to 1997.
 It was based on an Izhevsk-modified Moskvitch 412, with the first prototype released in 1972 as a small family car.
 It was considered to be the first Soviet hatchback (released about a decade before the well-known Lada Samara), though the car actually possesses a station wagon body wherein the "D" pillar has its own support and does not gain from weight reduction (which would position the model more in the liftback family).
 In Russian literature the car is referred to as liftback.
 For the same reason, the car was given the "Kombi" nickname, which in a way alludes to the Combi coupé (the word "kombi" itself meaning "station wagon" in German and Polish, while in Russian a station wagon is called "universal").
The Mercury Lynx is a compact car that was produced by Mercury for model years 1981 to 1987.
 It was a rebadged version of the Ford Escort.
 In 1987, the Lynx was dropped after slumping sales (although at one point, it was Mercury's best-selling car).
 In 1988, Mercury launched the Tracer as the Lynx's replacement.
 The Tracer was based on the Mazda 323, was built in Mexico and Japan (depending on model), and shared nothing with the Lynx.