2010 Taurus

[wishIhada5.0]

Looks to be a pretty sweet family interstate cruiser.....now all it needs ia a manual option and an SHO version to cover chevy and pontiacs SS and GXP models :D

[biminiLX]

Looks pretty good, but I'll wait until I see it next week at the show.

Looks pretty good. I dont really understand the point of Ford making a luxury car when the economy is in shambles and the company is headed for the ground. Shouldnt they be more worried about cheaper more efficient cars?

I hear what you're saying but this is their large sedan and good for its segment. The Fusion, Focus and upcoming Fiesta fill what you're saying.
I get Car and Driver and the new Fusion hybrid won their hybrid shoot-out with some pretty impressive figures--like 37/34 rating beating the Camry, Altima and Malibu.
Ford actually has some good products coming out and I believe the recent quality reports (can't remember if it was Consumer reports or JD Power) have them as the highest domestic maker over the last 5 years and even beating Toyota.
-J

[Zakerid]

people have been brain washed into thinking they are a superior car. almost everything built now is on an even playing field, and most of them use the same companies to manufacture their parts!

I can tell you we owned a toyota tacoma. at 45k miles the frame had a hole rotted almost the entire way through. it was under powered, cheap and i hated it. also had like 4 subaru's, another foreign car that was nothing spectacular. Im not ripping on them but they are in no way a superior vehicle to a domestic.



the money at the top still sits in another country and that's where the majority of it is reinvested.


Ill keep more of my money at home by buying domestic

i personally would not buy an "import" but honestly most of the american cars today have many globally sourced parts. Hell for the most part, my 08 implala is more of a canadian car than american.

[MBH]

Actually, I write with my right hand. My sister is left handed though!

haha I was just calling you a lefty in a round about way, but don't think much of it. I think the camry looks stupid, but it is a good car if you're going to drive whatever you have till it dies.

[Troll]

haha I was just calling you a lefty in a round about way, but don't think much of it. I think the camry looks stupid, but it is a good car if you're going to drive whatever you have till it dies.

left wing?

I got a 2008 Taurus as a company car last June. It has almost 8,000 miles on it now. I'm fairly impressed with this vehicle. The 263hp 3.5L Duratec has plenty of snort. If you turn the trac control off, it'll burn the fronts off anywhere, any time. I've smoked quite a few unsuspecting nitwits from a stop light. AND, it's a very comfortable, big, heavy smooth ride. The interior has a few cheap plastic bits, but the leather-clad seats and all other amenities seem top notch.

[MBH]

yes, left wing. Sorry, been bit of a scatterbrain tonight

[stieny]

yes, left wing. Sorry, been bit of a scatterbrain tonight

LOL.

Don't worry, I knew what you were saying. Thought that would be the more humorous response. I don't take this stuff to heart!

[MBH]

LOL.

Don't worry, I knew what you were saying. Thought that would be the more humorous response. I don't take this stuff to heart!

good!

I'm bored outta my mind right now so I'm being a big post whore. Time to play COD

[stieny]

good!

I'm bored outta my mind right now so I'm being a big post whore. Time to play COD

Tell me about it. I sat on campus today with my laptop all day posting while I had my breaks between class. Now I'm posting from my iPhone.

Back on topic: I will be curious to see what materials were used for the interior.

[mr4teth]

opps!

[mr4teth]

I can tell you we owned a toyota tacoma. at 45k miles the frame had a hole rotted almost the entire way through. it was under powered, cheap and i hated it.

This was one of the BIGGEST COVER UPS!!!

Last year Toyota had a "voluntary buy back" program offered to all 91-03** Tacoma owners because of this very problem. You wouldn't believe the number of Tacoma's that were piled up in the back of dealerships. Toyota was so careful about covering this up. They even went as far as only removing a couple of vehicles at a time hoping no one would notice car carriers full of Tacoma's. You know If this happened to Ford or GM it would have made 60 minutes and been on every front page of the news papers! But the "beloved" JAPANESE companies got a free pass!

** I believe these were the years affected but don't quote me.

[mlowry1260]

Looks pretty good. I dont really understand the point of Ford making a luxury car when the economy is in shambles and the company is headed for the ground. Shouldnt they be more worried about cheaper more efficient cars?

Take a minute & think about how long it takes to bring a car like this to market. You don't pull off a clean sheet design in 6 minths. I would think the design/build cycle is 3-4 years.

You have to give Ford credit for having the sack to build something different. I think the car has a Audi/Acura/VW look to it, not bad looking. The 500/Taurus was just too bland looking to sell.

As for the buy American crowd, I had a new Impala on a recent rental. I travel for work & rent many cars. The Impala was the biggest piece of crap I have driven in recent memory! No wonder GM's in trouble selling cars like that. Hell, the Hyundi Sonada I had last week was light years better fit/finsih/driving than the chevy.

It's time for the big three to step up & compete. Maybe we (US) have to lend a hand but, they must produce products people want to buy, not products they'd like us to buy(cheap). My parents generation would buy these rolling lazyboys they produced for years. My father, a WWII veteran, finally got fed up with the problems with his GM cars & bought a Camary. I want to see the US automakers survive but, they've got to change the ways of the past. Ford at least seems headed in the right direction.

[Zakerid]

This was one of the BIGGEST COVER UPS!!!

Last year Toyota had a "voluntary buy back" program offered to all 91-03** Tacoma owners because of this very problem. You wouldn't believe the number of Tacoma's that were piled up in the back of dealerships. Toyota was so careful about covering this up. They even went as far as only removing a couple of vehicles at a time hoping no one would notice car carriers full of Tacoma's. You know If this happened to Ford or GM it would have made 60 minutes and been on every front page of the news papers! But the "beloved" JAPANESE companies got a free pass!

** I believe these were the years affected but don't quote me.

one of my customers participated in the buy back and the new truck he got from toyota was a total POS. very poor fitment of body panels, horrible looking paint... he actually took them to court because he felt the truck he traded in was in better condition....

As for the buy American crowd, I had a new Impala on a recent rental. I travel for work & rent many cars. The Impala was the biggest piece of crap I have driven in recent memory! No wonder GM's in trouble selling cars like that. Hell, the Hyundi Sonada I had last week was light years better fit/finsih/driving than the chevy.

I wonder if the impala you had was beat by other renters. I really like the impala and actually had a friend of mine go from a camry to the impala after being in my car... I guess any maunfacturer has cars hit the that shouldn't maybe that car was one of them.