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Ford aerodynamics - The line of reason through the ages

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Created on June 1, 1984

Reading time 10min

Written by:

Hans J. Schneider

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Ford Eifel (1936) – der Urahn der Ford-Stromlinie mit seinen ideellen Nachfolgern Taunus P3 und Sierra

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Ford Eifel (1938) - von England übernommenes Modell_ZGIPWerk

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Ford Eifel (1936) - mit geschlossenem Dach

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Ford Eifel (1935) - elegantes Cabriolet

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Ford Eifel Cabriolet (1936) - ein überaus eleganter Wagen

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Ford Eifel (1936) – Frontansicht: aufragender Kühler, freistehende Scheinwerfer

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Ford Taunus TS (1961) - Probefahrt mit dem sportlichen Spitzenmodell

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Ford Taunus 17M (1961) - viertürige Variante

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Ford Taunus 17M (1961) - weit öffnende Türen

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Ford Taunus 17M (1962) - als Kombi

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Ford Taunus 17M (1961) - Frontansicht mit den beiden dominiertenden Scheinwerfern

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Ford Taunus 17M (1961) - Linie der Vernunft

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Ford Taunus 17 M TS (1961) - Heckansicht

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Ford Taunus 17M (1962) - Testfahrt in Lignières

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Ford Taunus 17M (1962) - Testfahrt in Lignières

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Ford Sierra Ghia (1982) – Frontansicht: windschlüfiger ging es damals kaum

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Ford Sierra XR 4x4 (1985) - mit Allradantrieb und in Wagenfarbe lackierten Stossfängern, die Scheibenunterteilung hinter der A-Säule ist verschwunden

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Ford Sierra XR4i (1983) - die sportlichste Version

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Ford Sierra XR4i (1983) - mit auffälligem Doppelflügel

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Ford Sierra XR4i (1983) - mit attraktiven Niederprofil-Reifen von Pirelli (P6)

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Ford Eifel (1936) – nicht nur ganze Autohecks, auch Schriftzüge folgen der Mode ihrer Zeit

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Ford Eifel (1936) – Die einfache Technik ist wartungsfreundlich. Muss sie auch sein: es gilt 40 Schmierstellen zu versorgen

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Ford Eifel (1936) – die technischen Daten im Vergleich zu Taunus P3 und Sierra

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Summary

Reason had a long tradition at Ford: as early as 1936, the Eifel placed great emphasis on streamlining and economy. The Taunus P3 and Sierra followed this ideal and competed with their ancestor in 1984 to compare the generations. In the meantime, even the then brand-new model with the aero rear end is over 40 years old. Has the last sentence of this historical article come true?

This article contains the following chapters

Saving fuel through streamlining
The more streamlined, the faster
Progress in passive safety
Comfort more important than road holding

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Air resistance, aerodynamics, wind resistance - these words have never been used as frequently as they are today. The drag coefficient, this imaginary value, has become the most important criterion for assessing a new car model. But it is not only since the modern oil crisis that car body designers and marketing experts in the automotive industry have been thinking about how to reduce the wind resistance of a car. Ford in Cologne, for example, made two significant forays into streamlining long before the appearance of the smooth-surfaced Sierra; before the war with the legendary Eifel and in the early 1960s with the Taunus 17 M P3, popularly known as the "bathtub". Eifel, Taunus, Sierra - three generations, one concept.

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