Posted on 10/19/2006 10:56:56 AM PDT by floridareader1
I'm a big guy myself, and I stick with the Crown Vic. Unlike the Taurus, the Vic's powertrain is bulletproof.
Shelby and Iacocca gave us the Mustang.
GTOs, 442s, Camaros, Firebirds, Chevelles, Chargers, Barracudas, T-Birds, Cougars... ALL gone, except the Stang.
The only domestic cars that I'd still buy is the Vette, 300 hemi, and Caddy XLR.
Fortunatly, Ford is continuing production on the Crown Victoria. That way you can always pretend to be an unmarked police vehicle or "narc" car.
Restored?
Far as I'm concerned, Ford never had a reputation for quality.
What was to restore?
They started with crap, they're still crap.
And the Taurus was the biggest piece of crap they had.
Except maybe the Pinto. Or the Escort. Or the Maverick. Or the Falcon. Or the Edsel.
Oh, what the heck, everything they made was crap!
AXOD - barely enough friction material for the imaginary torque of an asthmatic Escort...
Is it true that the Taurus showed signs of body rust before it reached the end of the assembly line?
oh sort of like the Del Sol, Integra, NSX, Prelude, and Vigor?
Good riddance!
Not one for styling but the Taurus was a good car. The last one I had to rent in Boston had the 24 valve engine. It was pretty fast until the damn rev limiter kicked in...
Yeah. I owned a Crown Vic once. It cost a lot more than the Taurus though. I got a new Taurus last year for about $14,000.
Of course, that was a discounted price. My father is a Ford retiree. But it would have been a good price even without the discount.
My last good Ford was a Fairlane. The Grenada and Taurus were junk.
One of a trilogy of classic jokes:
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On Roadside Dead
F***ed Over Rebuilt Dodge
None of those are as funny as this one, from Italy:
Fix It Again Tony
Acura changed the names of their models not for quality reasons, but because they thought they had to APE the way Mercedes named their cars, with initials. RL TL, TSX , etc.
I still like the name Acura Legend or Integra, or Vigor
"hemi" is domestic only if you consider Ramos Arizpe Mexico as part of the US
I had a girlfriend once who bought a Taurus from the local dealership - Pinkley Ford.
I just loved her Pinkley Taurus! ; )
Maybe not, chances are that when he says the reason he's 5 hours late at night because the car broke down on a dark country road on a date - he's telling the truth.
Same thing happened to my '90 Grand Prix (which, other than that, was the best car I ever owned)
This guy's article reads like it was written by the Ford PR Department.
I had a 97. White/tan leather. 25 miles per gallon if you drove it reasonably. Too bad it would only run on premium gas. It was a very comfortable, long distance capable car.
I thought the "Taurus" was being retired to be replaced by their new homo-friendly philosophy as the "Anus"?
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