Between 1957 and 1960 Ford produced 239,978 Taunus P2s.
45,468 of these were station wagons.
 This provided a welcome boost to the company’s domestic market share at a time when its only other mainstream model, the Ford Taunus P1 was lagging badly in the marketplace.

However, during the same three-year period Opel produced 817,003 of their Opel Olympia Rekord model which competed in almost the same class.
 Coming second to General Motors in the high volume market segments in West Germany (which would soon be Europe’s largest national auto-market) became a habit that Ford would find hard to break in the ensuring decades.
Between 1957 and 1960 Ford produced 239,978 Taunus P2s. 45,468 of these were station wagons.  This provided a welcome boost to the company’s domestic market share at a time when its only other mainstream model, the Ford Taunus P1 was lagging badly in the marketplace.
However, during the same three-year period Opel produced 817,003 of their Opel Olympia Rekord model which competed in almost the same class.  Coming second to General Motors in the high volume market segments in West Germany (which would soon be Europe’s largest national auto-market) became a habit that Ford would find hard to break in the ensuring decades.
Ford Taunus P2