MotorWeek- 1989 Ford Taurus SHO Review

A review of my favorite car. I own a 1991 and 1995

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[Motorfordtoyota]

at 1:06. Can you upload the part of the vid about that Toyota 4Runner he is standing in front of if you have it. Or send me the file? Nice car in the vid, I want one to do autocross runs with.

[91Taurus]

@Motorfordtoyota

The 4Runner wasn't in the episode, so I don't have video of it

[91Taurus]

@rriggi129

Considering that the AMG Hammer was over $120,000, which is a HUGE price difference, the Hammer was in a completely different league and was obviously not fighting for the same buyers as the $20,000 SHO. Its like comparing a Ferrari 458 Italia to a 2011 Mustang GT 5.0

[91Taurus]

With an SHO engine in every Taurus the base price would have skyrocketed from about $13,000 in '89 to over $20,000, and Ford would have lost money on every single one, since that was way out of the average american family's price range

2) When you say "a bigger engine thats not really that powerfull in the first place." you're not thinking about the fact that this was 1989. A Nissan 300ZX Turbo was making 205hp so 220hp in a 4door sedan was a huge deal!

3) Look up the meaning of a "Halo Car"

[coolgames14]

lol mazda mpv, my uncle sold that car back in 2008 and now he drive an 07 caravan

[avro206]

I'd consider one of these. They are pretty cheap. And a real sleeper ;)

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

@MThomas92 Yeah... I know Thomas92.

My point for saying that is that almost every auto manufacturer eventually relents to public opinion and put a whole bunch of BS on cars for people that are "non-car people". Unfortunately, non-car people buy the overwhelming majority of new cars. Now, something like 60% of new cars are bought by women.

That should be real interesting.. I'll defer to Adam Corolla's last book on this subject because it fits right in. Peace.

[MThomas92]

@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO you can convert it to manual, its been done

[91dodgespiritrt]

A nice very car! Unfortunately the engine was NOT built by Ford unlike it's competitor the Dodge Spirit R/T which was faster and had a Mopar engine with only a Lotus designed head. Go Mopar!

A Japanese engine in an American muscle sedan - an ignominy is what it is - an ignominy!!

[MrBry329]

robo cop favorite car

[bwright1991]

Holy Shit he looks basically the same today

[Motorfordtoyota]

@91Taurus That was defiately a 4runner or Truck that he was standing in front of when he was talking about the Taurus. Oh well

[rriggi129]

@Richierich1285

Oh well? AMG Hammer cost 185,000 back in 1987, not 30,000