Ford Taunus P4

The Ford Taunus P4, sold as the Taunus 12M, was a small family car that Ford Germany produced from September 1962 to August 1966. It was the fourth newly designed German Ford after the war and the first Ford with front-wheel drive. Ford in the United States designed it to be sold there as the Ford Cardinal, an all-American rival to the Volkswagen, and when those plans were cancelled the design went to Germany in 1960 to replace the outdated Taunus P1. It introduced a compact V4 engine that became the basis for Ford of Germany engines for twenty years. The P4 came as a two- or four-door saloon, an estate and a van.