Also, the Taunus was available as a coupe, a bodystyle that the Cortina was never made in.

The Taunus TC along with the Cortina Mk III and their successors have been produced in slightly updated forms in Europe, Argentina and widely across Asia by Ford or their local co-operators.

The Taunus was produced in Argentina from 1974 up until the end of 1984, when the production assembly was sold to Turkey to manufacture the Otosan Taunus.

Even though the Taunus / Cortina is not a usual sight anymore in many countries where it used to be a best-seller, it is indeed pretty common in Argentina, where a number of Clubs keep the cars in top condition, but it is also a regular transport with many families in the country.

In Argentina the non-injected XR4 model was equipped with the Taunus 2. 3 engine and was produced between 1986 and 1991.

** Ford Taunus Argentina models

Meanwhile, Germanicus ' troops had built a fort on Mount Taunus from where he marched with about 30, 000 – 35, 000 men against the Chatti.

Grave of Maximilian Kaller – together with bishop Adolf Kindermann in Königstein im Taunus

Other well-known firms are Philips ( with about 1, 200 employed at times ) or Siemens AG and Siemens VDO or the Sancura BKK, a supraregional health insurance company, which is fusioned with the Taunus BKK.

Something else the new Ford Taunus 12M had in common with its British Ford cousins was the retention of an old sidevalve engine at a time when competitors were increasingly moving over to ohc units.

All cars are called 12M, though both engines are continued ( the car with the bigger engine is called " Taunus 12M 1. 5 litre ").

The Ford Taunus P6 came with new bodies: engines and platform are continued.

The Ford Taunus P5 came with a new body and new engines.

The Ford Taunus TC series was conceived in the late 1960s to be a " world car " alongside its technical sibling the Cortina Mk III, with construction and design work taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.

The major components of the European Taunus " TC2 "/" TC3 " and Cortina Mk 4 ( of the 1979-82 series often referred to as Mk 5 although that has never been the official term ) remained basically the same through the entire production run only receiving minor body changes with the biggest re-engineering in the 1979 model year, which involved a facelift ( identical to the Ford Cortina Mk 5 update ).

The Sierra carried over the Cortina / Taunus OHC Pinto Engines and RWD configuration but was otherwise an all new car with independent suspension all round.

The Taunus and Cortina models are very easy to service and share a lot of mechanical components with the other European Ford cars of the period ( excluding the Ford Fiesta ), making them extremely easy to fix, although they are now a rare sight in even the markets where they were most popular.

The biggest engine available in the Argentine Taunus was an updated version of the lima with an upgraded camshaft, new exhaust headers and a 2 barrel 36 / 36mm Solex carburator.

Those cars are referred to as the Taunus SP 5 and where upgraded with a five-speed manual gearbox ( giving the number to the name ), raised performance and a reworked interior as the most significant changes inside.

Image: Grosser-feldberg-taunus015. jpg | The Taunus with Großer Feldberg

Image: Taunus_von_Karben-i. jpg | The Taunus with Grosser Feldberg, view from Karben

Image: Skyline-sued-ffm001. jpg | Frankfurt am Main, with the Taunus Mountains in the background

The district covers the southern part of the Taunus mountains, with the Main river forming part of the district's border in the south.

It is mountain landscape with the Westerwald in the west, the Taunus in the south, the Lahn-Dill-Bergland in the east and the Rothaargebirge of the Sauerland in the north.

In the late 1960s, Ford set about developing a third-generation Cortina, which would be produced in higher volumes than before, and following the recent merger of Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany into the modern-day Ford of Europe, the car marked the convergence of the German Taunus and British Cortina platforms with only minor differences between the two, hence the car's internal name TC1, standing for Taunus-Cortina.

The 2. 0 Ford Cologne V6 engine continued to be offered on Taunus badged cars in parallel with the Pinto unit, and offers here an interesting comparison with the similarly sized in-line four-cylinder Pinto engine.

The new Taunus, however, provided greater interior width than its predecessor despite being no wider on the outside.

The car is often nicknamed " Barock 2 " ( pointing back to the Taunus P2 series of the late 1950s, commonly known as the " Barock-Taunus ") or " The Knudsen Nose " by its German owners because of the pointy hood scoop that, as the legend has it, was put there on direct order from Knudsen.

At the closing of the eighties it had evolved visually from its all-western origin to the point that it took on a slightly new persona as the Taunus 2000, later on badged Taunus GLS for the top-of-the-line.

Ford started production of the Sierra in 1984, replacing the Taunus definitely in 1985 and continuing production until 1993, without ever updating its styling as Europe did.

However, although the updated Taunus was introduced to Continental Europe in January 1976, Ford were able to continue selling the Cortina Mark III in undiminished numbers in the UK until they were ready to launch its successor as the Dagenham built Cortina Mark IV, which went on sale on 29 September 1976.

Front-wheel drive became common in the United States only in the 1980s, though Citroën introduced the Traction Avant in 1934, Ford offered it in certain models of its German-built Taunus, and General Motors sold the front wheel drive Oldsmobile Toronado in 1966 and Cadillac Eldorado in 1967.

Wherever gaps in the fruit trees allow it, there is a broad view over the Rhine into the Rheingau, all the way to the western part of the Taunus ’ s main ridge, the Rheingau Range ( Rheingaugebirge ) with the Kalte Herberge and the Hallgarter Zange ( mountains ) as its highest elevations in the centre.

In its original form, it was closely related to the Ford Taunus V4 engine, adding two cylinders and no longer requiring a balance shaft.

* September 26 – The Taunus Railway opens its route between the Free City of Frankfurt and Höchst, Duchy of Nassau.

From the Taunus ' heights, the river Erlenbach makes its way down and through town.

As along most of its extent in the Taunus area, the limes near the Saalburg is remarkably well preserved and can be easily followed through the landscape.

The Roman Limes was built across the Taunus.

From 1970 onward, it was almost identical to the German-market Ford Taunus ( being built on the same platform ) which was originally a different car model.

In Germany this Ford Consul was offered with a choice of German built Ford engines, starting with the 1680 cc Ford Taunus V4 engine familiar to drivers of the Ford Taunus 17M.

The German V4 was built in the Cologne plant and powered the Ford Taunus and German versions of the Granada, Capri and Transit.

Wealthy industrialists, traders and bankers discovered the little Taunus town's idyllic and climatically advantageous setting right near Frankfurt in the middle of the nineteenth century and built villas and summer homes in Kronberg and Schönberg.

The town is built on both sides of the River Lahn, the natural border between the Taunus and the Westerwald, two parts of the Rhenish Slate Mountains.

Similar " Coke Bottle " styling featured in the larger Cortina Mark III ( also built in West Germany as the Taunus ) that was launched in 1970.

When in 1839 the Taunus Railway was built to the town of Höchst, still part of the Duchy of Nassau, the original Taunus station ( Taunusbahnhof ) was constructed on the Anlagenring.