Ford Taunus P3

The Ford Taunus P3, sold as the Taunus 17M, was a middle sized family saloon that Ford Germany built between September 1960 and August 1964. It was the third newly designed German Ford after the war, hence the internal name Ford Project 3, and the press nicknamed it the Badewannetaunus, or bath tub Taunus. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, who later shaped the Capri and the Sierra, and it was launched in Bonn in front of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. With a clean European look in place of its predecessor's tail fins, it was a commercial success, with 669,731 built, and it was one of the first cars to use rectangular headlamps.