Used to have one (no, not the one above). Piece of crap.
Posted on 10/19/2006 10:56:56 AM PDT by floridareader1
I've never owned a Taurus but have rented many of them. I didn't like them for the handling and the cheap looking interiors..I also didn't like the power and shifting was bumpy..
I do however, think ford makes the best trucks going..I have a F-150 and haven't had a single problem with it (80k miles)..
Used to have one (no, not the one above). Piece of crap.
It's ironic, but the only people in Florida who drive the Taurus/Sable are the very elderly and the young immigrants who can't afford anything else.
The hispanic immigrants tend to drive old American cars , more so than the Americans do.
Are you sure that's not a Tempo?
FIVE Tauruses?? Now if you said you owned one for 20 years and had no problems, THEN I'd be impressed! : )
I think that's a Tempo.
Sounds like a good first car for my son, then.
Igot a great deal on one as a rental.
After driving it for two days while visiting my son, he asked how I like it.
I told him if I ever bought one he had my permission to have me committed.
LOL
No wonder the company's in such trouble! I bought a '95 Taurus new and it was without question the worst pile of automotive crap I've ever owned. It completely blew its engine at 60,000 miles from a leaky head gasket. I know of at least 4 others (one belonging to my daughter) that did exactly the same thing. That car was a disaster: the floor filled with water when it rained from a leak we could never find (so did my daughter's); the wind noise was deafening; the fuel pump gave out and so did a lot of other stuff. No Fords in my future -- ever again!
Agreed. Worst paint ever. Made it easy to identify though. If the paint is missing in huge sections, it's a Taurus.
I don't think that's a Taurus..........or was.........
So, uh, you didn't like it?
What, were they living in the car or something?
Happened to a buddy of mine, too -- lipstick smudges on the upholstery; nylons in the back seat, you name it...
The car with a wonderful, state-of-the-art, gotta-love-it stainless steel exhaust system that I never had to touch, and the crappy, peel and flake clearcoat over the paint job, which made our beautiful, mint-condition, ran-like-a- top used car look like a Loosermobile from two months after we bought it. The company wouldn't do anything about the flaking paint for we second hand users, and did preciousl little for the ones who bought new, I'm told. Drove wonderfully if you wanted to look like a dork. We were so cheesed off, we have both bought foreign ever since.
"The Taurus was the most influential automobile since Henry Ford's Model T."
It's hard to imagine, but it actually outsold the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.
I don't see Ford doing that again in the next 30 years!
Probably the 3.8l engine. Ford completely shat the bed on that one. Twice.
First was the defective design, and second was the public relations disaster as they tried what I can only call a modified "cover-up" of the problem.
It was perfect!
If you mashed it into a cube and used it as a door stop.
Hey, I quit buying Fords when they opened up a plant in Viet Nam and started flying the Communist Vietnamese flag at corporate headquarters in Michigan.
We made such a stink about it, that they took the damn thing down!!!
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