The original Taurus and Sable were design breakthroughs that took America by storm and heavily influenced other cars for quite some time. While this new Taurus looks better than the current one, which is a tweaked and renamed 500, I don't think it is all that head turning. I loved the original Sable and hope the new one brings back that futuristic light bar vs. tweaking the Taurus a tad as seen in those renderings. Mercury needs fresh and UNIQUE products....maybe bring the new Mondeo here but with a light bar melded into that lovely front end.