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New Cortina is more Cortina.’ That’s what Ford promised us on the launch of the Mk2 Cortina back in 1966. And despite actually being slightly shorter than the ban-the-bomb car it replaced, that’s exactly what the Mk2 delivered: wider, better proportioned, more space for your elbows, it was an exponentially grown-up proposition. The more-is-more approach ascended to a higher echelon with the advent of the Mk3 in 1970, with Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany having joined forces to form Ford of Europe; the new model (Cortina in Britain, Taunus elsewhere) was so similar in its various markets that it was given the designation TC — for Taunus-Cortina. Bigger in stature, but also in volume.
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