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The Ford Taurus is an automobile that was manufactured and marketed by the Ford Motor Company in the United States from 1985 ... Initially built on the DN5 platform ...
The first-generation Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are automobiles produced by Ford as the first of six generations of the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable.Launched on December 26, 1985, as a 1986 model, [4] the front-wheel-drive Taurus was a very influential design that is credited with saving Ford from bankruptcy, [4] bringing many innovations to the marketplace [4] and starting the trend ...
This is a list of models of the Ford Taurus. The Taurus has been in production since the 1986 model year; its first run was as a mid-size sedan on the Ford DN5 platform , and its second and current production run has been as a full-size sedan on the Ford D3 platform .
Ford announced in 2014 plans to reduce its vehicle platforms from sixteen to nine. [1] In 2014, Ford vehicles were built on fifteen distinct platforms. This only applies to Ford and Lincoln and not to any brands that were previously held by the company (such as Mazda and Volvo), and is expected to cut costs by 20%.
The SHO had a Yamaha Built V-6 engine that redlined at 7,000 RPM and became the only Taurus to feature a manual transmission since the 4-cylinder MT-5 was discontinued in that year. [1] The transmission was designed and manufactured by Mazda and had the following gear ratios with a final drive ratio of 3.74:
The fourth-generation Ford Taurus is an automobile that was produced by Ford for the 2000 to 2007 model years. While mechanically similar to its 1996-1999 predecessor, major revisions to the bodyshell of the sedan were done to alter its controversial styling as well as add interior room; it was available in four-door sedan and five-door station wagon models.
Ford assembled the Taurus, Taurus SHO, and the Police Interceptor Sedan alongside the Ford Explorer and Lincoln MKS at its Chicago Assembly Plant (Chicago, Illinois). On March 1, 2019, the final Taurus built in the United States rolled off the assembly line, ending 34 years of the nameplate in North America. [ 2 ]
The Ford Super High Output (SHO) V8 engine was designed and built by Ford Motor Company in conjunction with Yamaha Motor Corporation for use in the 1996 Ford Taurus SHO.It was based on the successful Ford Duratec engine rather than its predecessor, the compact Ford SHO V6 engine developed by Yamaha for the 1989 Taurus SHO.