In middle eightieth, successful Ford Granada mk2 should be replaced by new model - SCORPIO. From with in 1978 in the Ford Motor Werke AG was born the new project - Greta. In that time the computers were used on a global scale, and were executed the incalculable tests with their help. Also there were in a novelty a 3D diagrams, which used at designing a Scorpio body.

About 500 engineers and designers were included in designing the furnish of interior, instrument panel, sound insulation, protection against corrosion and body colour scale.

In 1984 German design engineering group has got an own aerodynamic pipe in Merkinech (before they used a Daimler-Benz pipe). The centre for testing is clay models or metal prototypes was made for speeds up to 186 mph, and temperature limits from -40 up to +50 with a humidity degree from 5 up to 95 %.
Experiences were carried out on scale models by dimension 1:1, and due to the design there was achieved Сx equal 0,33. Due to what SCORPIO concerned to the most aerodynamic automobiles in that time.

Notice that it's essentially a closed, rectangular doughnut completely enclosing the moving air. The enormous turbine (the blue vaned "torpedo" in the upper left) draws air across the test region (the little red car) and then circulates it clockwise through a parallel plenum to cycle it repeatedly through the chamber. Of course, if instead it had simply sucked air in through one end of the building and exhausted it through the other end, the designers might have drawn in enough bugs to learn why they skoosh themselves so semi-permanently on my hood. (The bugs, not the designers....) Notice also in the large drawing the inwardly contoured ceiling that reduces the chamber's cross-section just upwind of the test region; this creates a Venturi effect that accelerates the airflow across the car. Finally, notice that the car sits on a robotic platform that enables the engineers to position it at any attitude with respect to the wind. And I think it's marvelous that - with all of this technology - some junior engineer still has to stand inside the chamber and blow smoke through a wand to make the slipstream visible.

As soon as there were some early prototypes available, the test engineers pounced on them. With on-board sensors, recorders and analyzers they checked ride, handling, noise, vibration, harshness, maximum speed, acceleration, aerodynamics, heating, cooling, ventilation, splash effects, emissions, load capabilities, economy, brakes, coachwork integrity, and the many other factors that add up to owner satisfaction. Back in the laboratories these evaluations joined an expanding database to permit more accurate computerized simulation for future designs.

the Running prototypes tested on Northern Polar Circle and in Arizona desert - favourite area for testing in severe constraints.
But besides it was necessary to adapt factories for mass manufacture for new SCORPIO, in Cologne. For this purpose was purchased the modern equipment including programmed controlled welding mechanisms, and 164 robots. The investments, have made of 385 millions dollars. Which were successfully paid back and due to us with you.

Conception	So designers have seen new model	Practically real dashboard
CAD-2 program	3D
Aerodynamic pipe	Turbine	Airflow
Engineers	Arizona desert	Lapland
Maket	So can looks Turnier in 1990	New big Ford - Five Hundred

MODELS

Scorpio CL 1985-89	Scorpio GL 4x4 1985-86	Scorpio Sedan Ghia 1990-91
Scorpio Cosworth 1991	Scorpio Tournier 1992-94	Scorpio Sedan mk2 1994-99