Ford set to produce last Taurus

Associated Press ^ | By TOM KRISHER, AP Business Writer

[floridareader1]

Good-bye beloved Taurus.

[US Navy guy]

We bought a used(abused) 1986 Ford Tarus sedan and it WAS a real POS!

[Brilliant]

I've owned 5 Tauruses. No major problems with any of them.


Seems like a bad business decision to me.

[floridareader1]

They practically give away those used Ford Tauruses. They aren't good for single men though. Not exactly a chick magnet!

[UB355]

I drove a couple, second one had tranny problems. The second generation was a bust when they had a woman designer put cute little Ford Ovals all over the car.

[Disambiguator]

Jay Leno is deeply saddened.

[misterrob]

That's the type of car you give to a regional sales rep pushing janitorial supplies.

[US Navy guy]

Ours had NOTHING but Transmission problems.

[Obadiah]

Sorry, but I always hated the Taurus. Oh, sure it was okay the first year or so of production, but to me, it came to be the iconic symbol of the nondescript, bland, uninspiring middle-America car, a car any Marvin Milquetoast would love to own.

[2banana]

Ford, left with few desirable cars, was caught flat-footed this year when consumer tastes shifted away from trucks.

I disagree. The Ford Focus and the Ford 500 are very nice and well engineered cars. And they were designed to replace the Taurus.

[July 4th]

I drove a couple, second one had tranny problems.

What, were they living in the car or something?

[Antoninus]

Never owned a Taurus, but my 1998 Contour with a V-6 is going strong at 98,000+ miles. Only one problem with it and it was fixed under warranty. Great car.

That said, I won't buy another Ford as long as they continue to lavish money on the sodomite lifestyle. By doing that, they're telling me they don't need my business.

[MediaMole]

My grandparents had an 86 Sable. The paint peeled off in sheets. The Excema-mobile.

[Spktyr]

Good riddance.

[End Times Sentinel]

The later models were complete crap.  Electrical problems are ubiquitous on mine.  I'll never buy a Ford again.

 

Good luck to them going after the sodomite market.  That 1% of the U.S. population should assure them a great future.  Henry Ford and the generations of workers that made Ford a once great country are surely spinning in their graves.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

The later models were complete crap.  Electrical problems are ubiquitous on mine.  I'll never buy a Ford again.

Good luck to them going after the sodomite market.  That 1% of the U.S. population should assure them a great future.  Henry Ford and the generations of workers that made Ford a once great country are surely spinning in their graves.

[kellynla]

only reason it was the "best selling car in America" is because Hertz(Ford company) furnished Taurus' for rental cars....

[You Dirty Rats]

As a management weenie, I have to say that this story proves beyond any doubt that the domestic automakers' problems are by no means solely or even primarily due to the UAW.

Toyota is kicking GM's and Ford's butts because they make better vehicles. It's the car, Detroit. You forgot about the car. First you went Vichy on small cars, then mid-sized cars --- and now Toyota and friends are improving their trucks.

Pretty soon all Detroit will have left is the corporate jet.

[Petronski]

It seems like the Taurus started out as an excellent, almost revolutionary design, but in 21 years the world changed and the Taurus didn't. Pair that with the 3.8l engine debacle and the positioning of the 24v engine as an option rather than a standard (necessity) and you're left with a car that defined the state of the art and became a great bland nothingness which the state of the art has long since passed on by.

[CougarGA7]

About 21 years too late with that decision in my opinion.

[MD_Willington_1976]

they make for good derby cars