I've owned 5 Tauruses. No major problems with any of them.
Seems like a bad business decision to me.
It seems like the Taurus started out as an excellent, almost revolutionary design, but in 21 years the world changed and the Taurus didn't. Pair that with the 3.8l engine debacle and the positioning of the 24v engine as an option rather than a standard (necessity) and you're left with a car that defined the state of the art and became a great bland nothingness which the state of the art has long since passed on by.
FIVE Tauruses?? Now if you said you owned one for 20 years and had no problems, THEN I'd be impressed! : )