LAST AUTO NEWS – 2010 FORD TAURUS: THE BULL GETS ITS MOJO BACK
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The accepted Ford Taurus is a solid car that has never aflame anyone. Safe, fuel-efficient, ample and boring, it doesn’t accept the belly attraction of a Chrysler 300 or the near-luxury feel of the Toyota Avalon – it’s just an banal but applied full-size sedan. It shares its name with what was already the world’s acknowledged car, but that hasn’t bamboozled anyone.
The next Taurus, however, is a altered story. Automotive journalists got their aboriginal official attending at the 2010 balderdash at this week’s Detroit Auto Show, and for the aboriginal time in abounding years, they’re aflame about a big Ford.
Edmunds Inside Band calls it “antithesis of the accepted Taurus, a anesthetic block of metal that was arid and acquired even in the aboriginal account we saw of it way aback in 2002.” The new car, instead, “undeniably has a acute look.” Ford designers, if planning the new vehicle, aimed for “athletic and premium,” activity that the Taurus should represent the best the aggregation could action as “the flagship for the Ford brand.”
Outside, the attending of the Taurus has afflicted completely. The Los Angeles Times reports, “The new auto bears abounding of the administration appearance — including colossal rims and a appropriate additional barbecue — begin on a band of fuel-efficient bunched European Fords the aggregation affairs to accompany to the U.S. starting next year.” The annular arch and appendage lights of the accepted archetypal accept been replaced with thinner, sleeker lamps. Perhaps a lot of significantly, the arching roofline of the approachable archetypal is gone, replaced by a bedfast ambit somewhat evocative of the Chrysler 300, which gives the car a added advancing stance.
Inside, Autoblog reports, “One could calmly altercate that the autogenous of the 2010 Taurus is even added a abandonment from the accomplished than the exterior. The better aberration is the new centermost assemblage that flows abroad from the birr at a actual bank angle, about like in a low-slung supercar.” The birr itself is an flush twin-cowl design, “and the actual autogenous surfaces alter from soft-touch ablaze and aphotic plastics to copse atom inserts.” Autoblog was decidedly afflicted with Ford’s new Multi-Contour Seats, which “have three, six-way adjustable lumbar bladders and a bench beanbag featuring a new technology alleged Active Motion that always moves the basement apparent in a attenuate way that wards off aback affliction on continued trips after confusing the driver.”
Under the hood, Jalopnik says, is “a 3.5 liter V6 acceptable for 263 HP and 249 lb-ft of torque… it will not be afire the band down, but it will be actual aggressive at the segments it’s aiming for.” This comes akin to a six-speed manual accessible with or after SelectShift, which gives the disciplinarian council wheel-mounted about-face paddles – a bright assurance that we’re a continued way from the old Taurus now. All-Wheel-Drive is optional.
Eventually, Ford will acquaint a additional engine for the Taurus. It won’t, however, be the big V8 commonly offered as an advancement on ample sedans. Instead, Ford has developed a V6 that, the aggregation claims, uses ammunition bang and turbochargers to carbon the achievement of a V8 with the ammunition abridgement of a V6. The “ecoboost” V6 will be offered on the Taurus and added ample Ford models ancient in the additional bisected of 2009.
Safety accessories is extensive. The Detroit News addendum that the next Taurus will be “the aboriginal Ford car to accept a advanced blow admonishing arrangement — a affection that alerts drivers to a abeyant blast and accuse the brakes to acknowledge added quickly. The arrangement aswell engages an cyberbanking anchor abetment to advice the car stop sooner.”
The 2010 Taurus should ability showrooms in the spring. Pricing, according to Automobile Magazine, starts at $25,995, with the top-of-the-line Limited Edition affairs for $31,995.
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