Ford Taunus P2

The Ford Taunus P2, sold as the Taunus 17M, was a mid-sized family saloon that Ford Germany built from August 1957 to August 1960. It was the second newly designed German Ford after the war, hence the internal name Ford Project 2. Its flamboyant styling, modelled on North American boulevard cruisers, earned it nicknames such as Barocktaunus, Gelsenkirchener Barock and Fliegender Teppich, or flying carpet. The body proved too heavy for the 1,498 cc engine of the Taunus 15M, so Ford bored it out to 1,698 cc and 60 PS. It came as a two- or four-door saloon, an estate and a van, and 239,978 were manufactured over three years.