Ford SHOs Its Hand
Published: December 29th, 2008
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Jalopnik has spy images from a currently-testing Ford Taurus, and they’ve spotted a SHO badge on the interior of one. So does this mark the return of a budget performance legend, or is it just a cruel, cruel tease? Los Jalops figure a 350hp Ecoboost V6 from the Lincoln MKS AWD would be just the ticket for a torque-steery good time. In other, more surprising news, the Taurus interior looks surprisingly decent. Let’s just hope the faux-carbon fiber is limited to models that require the driver to focus on keeping their bucking steed in the same lane.
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The Audi A6 Quattro generally gets pretty good reviews of its driving dynamics, so I don’t see why the Taurus SHO with AWD and 350 HP should be much different, since the specs would be very similar. In fact, the SHO would probably have a weight advantage plus a big time price advantage.
@ charleywhiskey The fact that Ford is trying to change it from a mommy turd mobile to a respectable performance car.
The thing is, the D3 chassis isn't in any way bad. In fact, the current Taurus actually has good driving dynamics for a car of its size/price. The problem is that the blah styling has lead to slow sales which has led people to believe the cars themselves suck. The current Taurus/Sable are incredibly practical family sedans with tons of room, good power, generally upmarket feel of the interior, all hampered by names that recall yesteryears rentacar. The center stack (which is borrowed (sans the oddly placed trunk release, which has to be a pre-production kludge) from the MKS and Flex) is very user friendly in person. Plus, with Ford continually upgrading the functionality and ubiquity of the Sync system, in a year or two most of the lineup will have virtually every non-driving function automated to a voice command (the current Lincoln MKS and Flex with Navigation are damn close already).