Posted on 10/19/2006 10:56:56 AM PDT by floridareader1
Erm, that was a generic "you". :P Not intended for you specifically. :)
To be honest, I haven't seen any cars, foreign or domestic, made in the last 10 or 15 years that had the horrible paint delamination problem. When it was happening, the great majority I saw were US makes, but some Japanese cars suffered the same problem. What was sad was that the manufacturers would not stand behind their product and fix this problem when it occured. Stupid and short-sighted. Having your company's cars all over the place with hideous delaminated paint creates a really bad image. Customers, not surprisingly, expect that when they buy a car that the original paint will stay stuck to it (excepting rust spots) for the life of the car. Certainly helped to turn me off buying a "domestic" car.
To post#22: So was the guy whos name is on the bumper sticker.
They aren't good for single men though. Not exactly a chick magnet! ROFLMAO !
I had a '99 and an '02 as fleets. Not a bad cars overall but both had a problem with brake rotors, an weak transmissions.
I used to call it the clitaurus becasue it had no balls.
There's a 01 GMC truck sitting at the neighbor's that's got that problem. They still have the problem, it's just less frequent than it used to be because they added a little bit more paint a few years ago. They're still painting on the cheap, not painting to last and last.
I have over 400,000 miles on my 1989 Taurus. The transmission is sticking a little but it loves to run on an open highway. Too bad or lucky for me the speedometer only goes to 90.
I love that car. It's really a shame the interior is slowly disintergrating.
Uh, that sounds like my old Calais... My Taurus is fine.
Back in the day, I had a girlfriend who bought a used police car... That thing flew, and when it wasn't flying, a tap of the brake pedal, and those big lights would come on in the back window, and any officers investigating the parked car would back off... ;-)
I told my brother's friend he needed to get a "D.A.R.E. to keep kids of drugs" bumper sticker to put on his car. LOL
The 500 and the new MxZ show why the company is doomed.
...the Packer?
My '94 got to 220000 miles before death, but it was on its third tranny. I had a 92 Olds Cutlass which was worse, aand the Taurus got better gas mileage by far. I didn't need to attract chicks with the car, and I could put four golf bags in the trunk. Get them first, then show 'em the car.
It was a disaster for years.
Look for the Union Label.
No fooling. (about the D.A.R.E sticker)
I am glad to see the Taurus go. I had a 1991 and it was all sorts of unspeakable names I cannot say on a polite forum!
The only Taurus I ever drove a few times was my grandmother's 1995 Taurus she bought brand new off the showroom floor, and traded it in for a 2000 Taurus. Neither one had any problems, cosmetic or otherwise. I had no complaints, but of course, they weren't mine. :)
My 'check engine' light used to come on at random times and the car would just quit. I could avoid this if I put in gas treatment AND only used premium gas.(the dealer always hooked it up to the computer and said that nothing was wrong....if I have to hitchhike....something is wrong!) The transmission had been rebuilt once and was starting to slip by 1998. (absurd)
I did not buy it new, but a buddy of mine had a 1996 bought new) with the EXACT same problems and the exact same fix temporarily solved them.
Ford makes me sad, no 2 ways about it.
Thelastbestlady
I own a 2003 Tortoise.
It is, yes...an uninspiring piece of crap...for which I am grateful because it was dirt cheap as one of a million program vehicles of identical design.
So long, tortoise.
A few years ago I drove my brothers Acura NSX on a trip to Miami. It was a yellow 1999 with about 15,000 miles on it. Man that was a fun car to drive for 2,000 miles. I loved that car. The quality was outstanding. The looks of an exotic with the reliability of a Honda. Some people say that the NSX's V6 did not have enough power, but I thought it was a blast to drive. I never went over 100 or so mph, but it was fun to pull into a rest area and then haul ass out of the parking lot. I love a mid engine automobile! I can't wait to see the new version of the NSX.
"Oh, what the heck, everything they made was crap!"
Didn't the lying bastards come up with the crap slogan:
"Quality is Job One"?
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