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Ford Taunus 17M P3 1960-1964

The 1948-1951 Ford Taunus was known as the "Buckel" (similar to 'fastback')

Lauched in 1962 the P4 was a car with modern looks and a new V4 1183cc engine. It was Ford's first mid-sized car with front-wheel drive. It was originally designed with the US market in mind.

The Taunus P6 was a development of the P4 and comprised the 12M and 15M from 1966-1970

Ford Taunus 1970s models known in Germany as the 'Knudsen' models.

Ford started assembling the Model T in Berlin in 1925. Ford established a factory in Cologne in Germany in 1931 where production started with the Model B. The Köln was almost identical to the British Ford 8, the first Ford to be built at Dagenham. The 1157cc Eifel was a very popular model. The Taunus appeared just before World War II but was not produced in large numbers. It was continued in 1948 with the same engine. The name Taunus was later used for all Fords built in Germany until 1968 when Ford built identical Ford Escort cars in Germany and

The name DKW is derived from Dampf - Kraft - Wagen (Steam powered
vehicle) as the first vehicle Danish engineer Jürgen Skafte Rasmussen
built (in 1916) was a light steam car. Like so many other
manufacturers, DKW were also famous for their motorcycles and by the
1930's DKW was in fact the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer.

In 1928 a new two-stroke engine was manufactured to power the first DKW car.
The same engine design was later used by SAAB in their 92, 93 and 96
models.

The sixth Goodwood Festival of Speed, held in June 1998, celebrated Porsche's 50 years of racing supremacy. Among the more than 70 famous Porsches racing up the drive past Goodwood House were the 356 Gmund Coupé 1.1 litre and the 1938 1 litre Typ 64K10.

These are the first series, built from 1948 to 1952 with a split windscreen and very low bumpers. These cars were built in Gmünd until 1951 when Porsche moved back to Stuttgart.

Gone is the split windscreen, although Porsche left a visible fold where the centre bar used to be.