The remade Taurus has emerged as a flagship for automaker
The all-new Taurus that Ford Motor Co. launched a year ago will never match its former glory as the best-selling car in America. But in Ford’s eyes, it doesn’t have to. The remade Taurus has emerged as a flagship for the Dearborn automaker, restoring luster to a nameplate that had become synonymous with “rental car,” and helping to revive an automaker that had become dependent on trucks and sport utility vehicles. It is a prime example of Ford’s strategy to … Read entire article »
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New Taurus-Based Police Interceptor
The Police Interceptor may be one of the single best known vehicles on the road. Sure, exotics turn heads, and heavy duty trucks are impossible to ignore, but there are few vehicles on the road today command the respect of Ford’s police package-equipped Crown Victoria. … Read entire article »
Ford Taurus sedans a work of art
The new building’s entry takes one more very big step. Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist now living in New York, has installed his monumental 2004 sculpture “Inopportune: Stage One,” composed of nine white 1990s Ford Taurus sedans. The cars, once the most popular American-made fleet automobile, rise and fall in an arc suspended from the 35-foot-high ceiling, as if careening through the city-block-long space. Flashing light-tubes explode from the tumbling vehicles, in silent fireworks patterns that … Read entire article »





