[floridareader1]

Good-bye beloved Taurus.

[US Navy guy]

We bought a used(abused) 1986 Ford Tarus sedan and it WAS a real POS!

[Brilliant]

I've owned 5 Tauruses. No major problems with any of them.


Seems like a bad business decision to me.

[UB355]

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.

[Disambiguator]

Jay Leno is deeply saddened.

[Obadiah]

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.

[2banana]

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.

[Antoninus]

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.

[Spktyr]

Good riddance.

[End Times Sentinel]

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

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

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.

[kellynla]

only reason it was the "best selling car in America" is because Hertz(Ford company) furnished Taurus' for rental cars....

[You Dirty Rats]

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.

[CougarGA7]

About 21 years too late with that decision in my opinion.

[MD_Willington_1976]

they make for good derby cars

[VaRepublican]

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.

[raccoonradio]

Used to have one (no, not the one above). Piece of crap.

[Bernard Marx]

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!

[50sDad]

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.

[bennyjakobowski]

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.

[Cobra64]

"Taurus...cars with crisper handling."

Ugly, underpowered, POS that handled like crap. There will never be a FWD car in my garage.

[jalisco555]

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.