Um, actually, no on the paint issues. There are foreign-badged cars that are made and painted in the US, and they have to abide by the same rules. It's the Ford/GM beancounters that are skimping on paint - they use cheap top clearcoats and the paint thickness is half or less that of a comparable US-built foreign-badged model.
They save $30 per car that way. :P Too bad they tick off customers by doing so.
The control layout of the Taurus, especially the ovoid ones, is NOT intuitive.
To be honest, I haven't seen any cars, foreign or domestic, made in the last 10 or 15 years that had the horrible paint delamination problem. When it was happening, the great majority I saw were US makes, but some Japanese cars suffered the same problem. What was sad was that the manufacturers would not stand behind their product and fix this problem when it occured. Stupid and short-sighted. Having your company's cars all over the place with hideous delaminated paint creates a really bad image. Customers, not surprisingly, expect that when they buy a car that the original paint will stay stuck to it (excepting rust spots) for the life of the car. Certainly helped to turn me off buying a "domestic" car.