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Ford in the US has released its long awaited replacement for the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. The car, which is based on the current Taurus platform, promises to be more powerful and efficient than the outgoing V8 Crown Victoria. There will be two V6 motors available — a 196kw standard version and a 272kw twin-turbo version for highway patrol cars. The car will have heavy-duty curtain airbags and a body reinforced to withstand a 120km/h rear-end hit and keep going.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Sometime next week, the assembly line at a Ford plant near Atlanta will come to a halt, signaling the end of a family sedan so revolutionary that its 1985 debut changed forever the way cars look, feel and drive. ADVERTISEMENT Say goodbye to the Taurus. After 21 years and sales of nearly 7 million cars, Ford Motor Co. is giving up on what some call the most influential automobile since Henry Ford's Model T. The Taurus is credited with moving America away from boxy V-8 powered gas-guzzling bedrooms-on-wheels to aerodynamic, more efficient cars with crisper handling. To...

CHICAGO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A Ford Motor Co. executive paid a rare tribute to one of his company's fiercest competitors Wednesday, saying the hot-selling Camry from Toyota Motor Corp. was a better car than Ford's Taurus. "Very frankly, Camry is a better product than Taurus today," said Jim O'Connor, who heads Ford's sales and marketing division for North America, speaking to reporters at the Chicago Auto Show. "It's all about product in this business," O'Connor said, when asked why the mid-sized Camry outsold Taurus in the U.S market last month. O'Connor said Ford still sees near-term demand for the...