Talk:Ford Taunus
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Why the fanboy line-drawing? --63.64.174.130 03:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
marque=brand name? --Yak 14:24, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, exactly. --RivGuySC 17:09, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The '52 model in the photo looks more like an old Volvo than the Taunus. I wonder if anyone would add a photo of the more common models?
Taunus was introduced as brand in Scandinavia already in 1937 as name for the German built V8's sold in Scandinavia (maybe assembled in Copenhagen). In a "Ford Nyt" (Ford News) from 1937 the new Taunus was announced together with the Eifel, that was used as brand for the 1172cc's in Scandinavia as well.
[edit] Cortina and size
Is the body not bigger than the Cortina? --maxrspct ping me 03:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ford Taunus P4 front wheel drive? I'd thought not
I'm troubled by the following text on the 1962 - 66 Ford Taunus 12M: "...Same size, but a completely new car. New body, new V4 engine, front wheel drive...". Effectively the same assertion turns up, as far as I can make out, in German wiki.
I had thought (from frazzled memory) that Ford in Europe only discovered front wheel drive with the launch of the 1966 - 1970 Taunus 12M P6 1966 - 1970 (and of course after that they changed their minds till the Fiesta turned up: the post 1970 semi-joint Taunus/Cortina and Sierras would remain resolutely rwd till the end). I guess I could look it up. I found already a French language site http://www.ford-taunus.fr/ which appears to confirm my memory, but (1) I have no idea how authoritative it is and (2) it would be nice to find something on this in English: however I guess there isn't much interest in the Taunus in English speaking countries.
Does anyone with an old service manual or something equivalent know more already? Charles01 (talk) 18:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hello Charles, I don´t have an English source, but the P4 most definitely was the first front-driver of Ford Deutschland (Oswald, Deutsche Autos 1945-1990, p. 374). The project originated in Detroit (code name Cardinal) and was later handed over to Ford Köln. The P6 was a thoroughly redone P4 (Oswald: "The P6 series, introduced in September 1966, showed that Ford Köln was struggling to develop an acceptable automobile out of the original, rather botched US concept."). Cheers, --328cia (talk) 17:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
