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Unrivaled power - Ford 20M 2300 S Turnier in the (historical) test

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Created on April 18, 1970

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Dr. Paul Simsa

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Ford 20M 2000 S Turnier (1968) - the only German estate car with a six-cylinder engine at the time

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Ford 17M Turnier (1969) - the station wagon as a "Tudor" after the smoothing of the side crease

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Ford 17M Turnier (1969) - four-door station wagon with the traditional designation "Fordor"

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Ford 17M Turnier (1969) - around 2.4 m2 load area

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Ford 20M 2000 S Turnier (1971) - four-door station wagon in the last model year of the P7

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Ford 17M Turnier (1968) - the model with the controversial hip bend that was only built for one year

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Ford 20M 2000 S Turnier (1968) - Illustration of the four-door station wagon

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Ford 20M 2000 S Station Wagon Fordor (1968) - Illustration by Walter Gotschke - In Switzerland the station wagons were not called "Turnier"

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Ford 17M Turnier (1968) - three-door estate, up to 2.4 m2 load area, 1900 l load volume and 520 kg payload

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Ford 20M 2300 S Turnier (1970) - decidedly sporty station wagon with alloy wheels and 108 hp

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Ford 20M 2300 S Turnier (1970) - recognizable by the dual exhaust

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Ford 20M 2300 S Turnier (1970) - a touch of motorsport with round instruments and fire extinguisher

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Ford 20M TS Coupé (1968) - new 2.3-liter V6, also available in a station wagon

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Ford 20M (1969) - Illustration of the V6 engine

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Ford 20M (1969) - cross-sectional drawing through the Cologne V6

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Ford 20M 2300 S Turnier (1970) - Weights and dimensions

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Summary

In the 1960s, people in Germany still had to choose between driving culture and capacity. Saloons offered little storage space, estate cars were utility vehicles. Always? No! Because even back then, a German manufacturer had a station wagon with a six-cylinder engine in its range. With up to 108 hp from 2.3 liters, the Ford 20M Turnier had a superior engine and was as comfortable as the sedan. This short historical test weighs up the pros and cons.

This article contains the following chapters

Station wagon with V6
Load-dependent driving behavior
mot overall verdict

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

You should only buy an estate if you really need cargo space or a loading area. The advantages of an estate are clear: more space for bulky loads than in the luggage compartment of a sedan, rear seat bench can be folded forward for a long loading area, higher load permitted than in a sedan due to precautions on tires and suspension. The disadvantages of estate cars are often only discovered in practice: luggage is not covered, small items roll around noisily, poor accessibility of the load compartment in two-door estate cars ("three-door"), in four-door estate cars ("five-door") usually quite high prices on the bottom line, more noise resonance in the large interior, more work for the heating, and above all poorer comfort when the car is unloaded due to the harder suspension. From about half the permitted payload, the comfort of the estate car is on a par with comparable saloons. This is why the foreign estate sedans are an intermediate solution, and the VW Variant also plays such a role; moreover, German estate cars are mainly bought for commercial use, which is another minus point for private buyers: Many people don't like driving a car that looks like a van and accordingly sells less well as a used car.

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