October 31, 2006
So not everybody loved 'em
Attila at Pillage Idiot notes all the favorable press that the Ford Taurus has received as production of the popular vehicle ends.
Speaking as a Taurus owner for 13 years, and as someone who actually had an emotional attachment to the car, I can only say: GOOD RIDDANCE! GOOD FREAKIN' RIDDANCE!Fact is, the car sucked eggs. Major eggs. My 1993 Taurus LX had less than 75,000 miles on it, but I have a thick file with all the repairs I had to have done on it. Just by way of example, I went through 5 or 6 starters and starter relays. The water pump and various other parts of the cooling system failed on me. And my all-time favorite (cue scary music): the head gasket. The head gasket failure, which Tauruses were extremely prone to suffering, cost about $3000 to fix and took a week or more at the dealer. Ford agreed to pay for the repair for some owners, but limited that offer to certain model years, thus stiffing a large number of us whose head gaskets survived a few months too long.
If anyone from Ford happens to stumble on this post, I just want to say that I bought a new car this year. It was a Toyota. Feel free to send me your apology by email: pillageidiot -at- hotmail -dot- com. I still won't buy another Ford, but at least an apology will make me feel the company is not malevolent but simply incompetent. Oh, and enjoy your evening.
Bold Moves, Attila. Bold Moves.
On the web Posted by jk at October 31, 2006 4:17 PM
Attila is correct. I owned one of those farging wallet leaches. Died under 80K and I spent the last 2 years nursing it every step of the way till ... dun-dun-dunnnnn ... the head gasket took a dive. And yes, I own a Toyota now. Ford ... ford ... must be a democrat ... the more money you dump into it, the more it sucks.
Posted by: mdmhvonpa at October 31, 2006 6:49 PMAnd the damned thing is still sitting on the street in front of my house, gathering pollen and leaves and costing me insurance, because I haven't had time to call the charity I'm going to donate it to. If you want it, I'll sell it to you cheap.
Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at October 31, 2006 9:49 PMI have a theory that four or six bangers have problems with head gaskets because there's not enough "tightening" of the head bolts.
And don't get me started on wrong-wheel drive cars.
I likes my cars with eight cylinders and rear wheel drive. They way God intended them to be.
Posted by: AlexC at October 31, 2006 10:07 PMI currently have a 2001 Taurus w/ 75K on it. Yup,..I've spent more on it than its worth, but I'm gonna keep it until the wheels fall off, just for spite!
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at October 31, 2006 10:32 PMAww man, i totally forgot. A friend of mine hit black ice and ended up going over a curb and through a stop sign.
The stub of a sign tore his gas tank open.
The Taurus pretty much made a superfund site of some guy's front yard.
Yet ANOTHER strike.
Posted by: AlexC at October 31, 2006 10:48 PMDo you all think it's a coincidence that Ford Motor Company brought us the Taurus, the Merkur, the Explorer (Exploder), the Edsel and the Pinto? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me five times...
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