Ford Taunus P3 Members of the press had apparently competed to find a suitably disrespectful epithet to describe the controversially styled first Taunus 17M, and it was in the same tradition that the new 17M for 1960 became known as the "Badewannetaunus" "(Bath tub Taunus)". The Ford Taunus P3 was a commercial success. 669,731 were produced during a four-year production run, giving an annualised rate more than twice that achieved by the predecessor model during its three years in production. The car received its public launch at the Beethoven Hall in Bonn. Unusually for a car launch, both the by now 84-year-old German
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