It would be fine if they merged, the Taurus is going RWD in my2012. But Kill the Falcon name would be a disaster!!!!As has been mentioned already, the Ford Taurus was originally going to replace the Falcon.
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It did rather poorly though. Many reasons have been given for this, including the fact that it was only offered in one trim (Ghia, or the equivalent of our LX), making the car rather expensive.
I wonder, if this rumor is true, are they going to give the Taurus another shot at the Aussie market? If so, it might mean a Taurus wagon (not to mention the usual carp-ton of options that Australians always get)!
From dimming memory I think the Taurus was priced above Fairmont and somewhat under Fairmont Ghia, these being roughly Taurus-equivalent variants belonging to the then-aging EL model-series, which was the fourth and final version of a 1988-gen intro. Yet in every media comparison between Taurus & Falcon (and as you can imagine there were plenty) the already past-its prime and soon to be redesigned local EL Ford got a clear vote of confidence over its imported (Taurus DN & DP) competitor
The Falcon nameplate becomes meaningless 'badgewear' unless there is an authentic (genuine) Falcon attached underneath itausrutherford said:
"At $42,950 it was better than $4000 more than the Fairmont sedan with a six-cylinder engine, and $1000 more than the local car with the optional 5.0-litre V8, which was an even more effortless cruiser."
Sorry, but the RWD Commodore is =1st with the much smaller Corrolla. The Corrolla is also being helped by strong fleet sales.
Agreed
Did they actually make a FWD mustang? Or follow in GM's example and kill thier pony car altogether...Lets hope they don't get the idea of a FWD Mustang again then.
Yes, it was called the Ford Probe, and it never replaced the Mustang like it was supposed to. I imagine Ford recieved too many death threats about the subject and decided to drop the idea of a fwd Mustang.
Yes word got out in the late 80's that Ford was going to be replacing the Mustang with the Probe and Ford received a whole lot of letters that were dissaproving to say the least of this expected move and Mustang sales continued strong late in the fox body years until Colletti headed the 94 Mustang team which did it with very little funding and effectively saved the Mustang.
What are you on about?
Get ****ed. AWD and FWD are both nose heavy and the latter being debilitating to large car practicality (read: parking ) and power delivery.autoblog said:
