Good-bye beloved Taurus.
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To: floridareader1
We bought a used(abused) 1986 Ford Tarus sedan and it WAS a real POS!
To: floridareader1
I've owned 5 Tauruses. No major problems with any of them.
Seems like a bad business decision to me.
3 posted on
10/19/2006 11:00:02 AM PDT by
Brilliant
To: floridareader1
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.
5 posted on
10/19/2006 11:01:32 AM PDT by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: floridareader1
Jay Leno is deeply saddened.
6 posted on
10/19/2006 11:01:42 AM PDT by
Disambiguator
(If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
To: floridareader1
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.
9 posted on
10/19/2006 11:02:53 AM PDT by
Obadiah
To: floridareader1
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.
10 posted on
10/19/2006 11:03:45 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: floridareader1
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.
12 posted on
10/19/2006 11:04:26 AM PDT by
Antoninus
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To: floridareader1
14 posted on
10/19/2006 11:05:39 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: floridareader1
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
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it was probably just a joke.
15 posted on
10/19/2006 11:06:33 AM PDT by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: floridareader1
only reason it was the "best selling car in America" is because Hertz(Ford company) furnished Taurus' for rental cars....
16 posted on
10/19/2006 11:06:36 AM PDT by
kellynla
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To: floridareader1
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.
17 posted on
10/19/2006 11:07:07 AM PDT by
You Dirty Rats
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To: floridareader1
About 21 years too late with that decision in my opinion.
19 posted on
10/19/2006 11:07:49 AM PDT by
CougarGA7
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To: floridareader1
they make for good derby cars
To: floridareader1
Good bye????? No good riddance.the Taurus was a pos and american manufacturers wonder why they are losing.Do you remember the head gasket problems along with the fact that the Taurus was ugly.I'm not sorry I love my Toyota Tacoma!!!Build it right for the right price and they will come.
22 posted on
10/19/2006 11:09:05 AM PDT by
VaRepublican
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To: floridareader1
Used to have one (no, not the one above). Piece of crap.
To: floridareader1
company officials said the Taurus restored Ford's reputation for quality. 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!
To: floridareader1
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.
36 posted on
10/19/2006 11:16:20 AM PDT by
50sDad
(The GOP dumped Foley, the Dems kept Clinton. See the difference?)
To: floridareader1
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.
46 posted on
10/19/2006 11:19:47 AM PDT by
bennyjakobowski
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To: floridareader1
"Taurus...cars with crisper handling." Ugly, underpowered, POS that handled like crap. There will never be a FWD car in my garage.
49 posted on
10/19/2006 11:22:21 AM PDT by
Cobra64
(Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
To: floridareader1
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.
53 posted on
10/19/2006 11:24:34 AM PDT by
jalisco555
("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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