In 1970, the P6 is replaced by the Taunus TC ( see below ).

In 1970 a new Taunus, the Taunus Cortina ( TC ), was introduced, as a two-or four-door sedan, station wagon ( or Turnier ) and coupé.

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.

In Europe, the Pinto OHC was introduced in 1970 to replace the Essex V4 in the Mk3 Ford Cortina and Taunus V4 for the German Fords range ( mainly the new Taunus TC ).

* 1970-1976 Ford Taunus TC

* 1971-1976 Ford Taunus TC

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 Upper Germanic Limes started from the Rhine at Rheinbrohl ( Neuwied ( district )) across the Taunus mountains to the river Main ( East of Hanau ), then along the Main to Miltenberg, and from Osterburken ( Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis ) south to Lorch ( Ostalbkreis ) in a nearly perfect straight line of more than 70 km ;

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 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.

Taunus 2300GT coupe in Argentina with its unique taillights and bumpers built from 1974 up until the end of 1984

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.

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.

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.

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

From 1976 Taunus and Cortina models were identical in all but name, ' Taunus ' being the name used in left hand drive ( LHD ) markets, and ' Cortina ' in right hand drive ones, although the Cortina name was used in LHD South Korea and Taiwan.

As from the 1976 model year the Taunus and Cortina were almost identical, apart from regional variations ( in terms of specification changes and trim levels ).

Internally, they were defined by the setting of the driver ´ s place-LHD ( left-hand drive ) cars were badged Taunus while RHD ( right-hand drive ) cars were badged Cortina, disregarding the country of origin.

The Taunus / Cortina was replaced in Europe by the Sierra in late 1982.

By 1976, when the revised Taunus was launched, the Cortina was identical.

In fact, this new Taunus – Cortina used the doors and some panels from the 1970 Taunus.

Its sister car-the Taunus TC-sold in continental Europe was subtly different in appearance, having different door skins and rear wing pressings that toned down the drooping beltline in order to lose the " coke-bottle " appearance of the Cortina.

File: Mk Frankfurt BadSoden. jpg | Residential building at Bad Soden am Taunus ( suburban Frankfurt, Germany )

The Mk III was also sold in Scandinavia, alongside the Taunus.

By contrast, the estate models combined the Mk IV's bodyshell ( which was initially from the 1970 Ford Taunus ) with Mk V front body pressings.

Ford Taunus V4 engine in Saab Sonett III.

Generally a rebody of the Mark III, as an integration of Ford's model range, this car was really a rebadged Ford Taunus.

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.

The dashboard was carried over intact from the last of the Mark III Cortinas while the estate used the rear body pressings of the previous 1970 release Taunus.

The first engine was an 841 cc three-cylinder two-stroke engine, but from 1967 onward, it became available with the same four-stroke Ford Taunus V4 engine as used in the Saab 96, the Saab Sonett V4 and Sonett III, and the German Ford Taunus.

* 1979-1982 Ford Taunus III

* 1979-1982 Ford Taunus III

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