'Project Archbishop' was Ford UK's attempt to build a "C" class car that would be cheaper and simpler to produce than the over-engineered Ford Consul Classic. Conceived in rapid time to counter the Ford USA plans to build the 'Cardinal' project front wheel drive German-American car in Dagenham, Ford Britain launched Project 'Archbishop' as the Ford Consul Cortina in 1962. In 1966 Ford produced a bigger Cortina, the MkII which actually shared the floorpan of the MkI, and was only bigger in width. The 'coke bottle' Cortina MkIII replaced the MkII in 1970, gaining width and revised suspension plus the new Pinto engines. The MkIII was internally known as the 'Cortina TC' because it shared development with the German Taunus TC. In 1973 Ford made a midlife revision creating the Cortina TD/Taunus TC, the main effects of this being tidied up front and rear with the English and German models converging, plus Pinto and V6 engine options. The Cortina MkIV (Cortina TE, Taunus TC2) gave the cars a body that was mainly restyled from the waist up, and identical to German and British plants. This was introduced in 1976, and as a last throw of the dice it was again revised as the 'Cortina 80' (Cortina TF, Taunus TC3) in 1979 until replaced by the new Ford Sierra in 1982.