Amway Wagon!
Ford Taurus
Posted on 10/19/2006 10:56:56 AM PDT by floridareader1
So then impress her with something else.
How's your Post-Taurus Stress Disorder coming along?
I have a 2004 Taurus furnished by my employer. Good mileage, drives nice. It has leather interior and mag wheels. I added a gold pin stripe to break up the all white color. Its not an Aurora by any means but its been trouble free so far...
Had electrical problems as well and why I now drive a Toyota Highlander.
That is funny as hell!!!
Ford needs to build a car that would appeal to the homosexuals that they continually cater to. I'm certain an appropriate name for such a vehicle will soon surface.
No need to drag the Ford Fiesta into this discussion.
;OP
Ford sold thousands of brown Probes over the years.
Ugly, underpowered, POS that handled like crap. There will never be a FWD car in my garage.
It's like I've been saying all along, "It's the cars, stupid!"
Must have been -- I've put everything about that car out of my memory except how much I hated it. Forgot to mention the tranny also blew up. And yes, there was a "modified cover up." When the dealership told me it was going to cost $4,500 to fix the engine (after they'd dismantled it so I couldn't haul it elsewhere) I told them my next stop was my attorney's office. Only after that did they just "happen to notice" the company would pay for some of the repairs. Bad car, bad management, bad company. May it deservedly fry in hell.
I buy a new one about every 4 years. Got 2 right now. Used the others as trade in.
I was on vacation with my wife, brother and sister in law in Florida and we rented a Taurus. It broke down on the way out of the rental agency. We went back and they gave us another Taurus. This one caught on fire on the way out of the rental agency! Luckily we all got out OK. When I went back to the agency I demanded they give us anything but a Taurus.
Amway Wagon!
Ford Taurus
Bought a 1990 GL and hauled the family many miles in it for 12+ years. Solid and stalwart until the last year, then everything went belly-up and I had to retire it. Very happy with it overall. Still rent them from Hertz when I travel.
It is bland by modern standards. About as bland as everything else on the road these days. But what I like about them is that I can fit in it.
I'm 6'3", and if I wanted to buy any other car I could fit into, it would cost me about twice as much or more.
One clue about an American car's quality is the constant need to change the car's name. Accord and Civic have been around almost forever, while names like Fairlane, Galaxey, Tempo, Mystique, Pinto, Fiesta, Granada, Monarch, Countour, Comet, Falcon, on and on have been changed to confuse the American public.
That was the non-public Technical Service Bulletin. As I recall, Ford concluded it was cheaper to repair the blown engines than recall them all for prophylaxis. It might have been cheaper in the short run--maybe. But the cost-accountants left the loss of squandered goodwill out of that calculus.
Oh, and the AXOD transaxle was not designed for the power put out by the 3.8l engine. It could barely handle the power of the 3.0l engine. The AXOD was eventually AXED, but not before hundreds of thousands were made.
They should have known better than to make the clutch packs out of Havarti. At least use a drier cheese like Provolone.
The Fusion was designed to replace the Taurus. The Focus is the replacement for the Escord. The Five Hundred is a very nice and smooth ride, but it is boring and ugly!
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