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The '95 Ford Taurus must be a beast to maintain
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Worth about $5 on the Bay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-FORD-TAURUS-OWNERS-MANUAL-/121343580043?pt=...
Is that with or without the gun
The one hidden in the hollowed out section?
(joking)
Damn thieving hipsters
I bet there is now a hipster in J.P riding around on a bike with a hand made "glove compartment" and a '95 Ford Taurus" owners manual.
Just because.
Awesomeness!
Fix or Repair Daily
Fix or Repair Daily
Found on Road Dead
My mother for some reason had a 95 Taurus SHO when it was new, plagued with constant electrical problems. Amazing she found a car with more electrical gremlins than my dad's Aston V8 Vantage.
1994 Ford Taurus station wagon
was my first car. It fell apart at 84k miles and my dad tried to sell it to my friends for $20. They were smart enough to decline the offer.
Adam, Reconsider Repostin Gmy Humorousposts
Why are my posts making fun of unfunny acronym jokes not getting through?
More electrical gremlins than a Gremlin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Gremlin
Hey Otto
There's a gremlin on the side of the bus!
Ohhh, I just made my last
Ohhh, I just made my last payment.
Damn!
When my aunt's '93 "Pyrmobile" wagon (giant dog hauler) was recently plowed into junk yard oblivion by a Dodge Ram Pickup driver who didn't notice all the cars stopped at a red light, I should have told her to save the owner's manual for sale on the black market.
Not sure why all the Ford hate, though - I had a '93 Escort Wagon that lasted 13 years and even then it only needed some suspension work. The only time it ever broke down was when it blew a timing belt. My brother retired his '92 hatch when it topped 300K miles.
Well, it works if you like
Well, it works if you like boring, slow fwd econoboxes with some of the worst interiors of that decade of shameful styling and material choices inside and out. Aint no CRX for price, gas mileage and quality.
Not Quite Relevant to The 90's...
But the more recent Focus and Festiva hatchbacks have some very nice sport models that can even be competitive amateur rally or touring cars with very little modification. Taurus, I will give you, is one of their worst models for blah-dom throughout the ages.
The Euro model Focus and
The Euro model Focus and Festiva maybe
The current Focus
model (2012-on) sold in North America would also qualify. Although built in Michigan, it's identical to the UK and European versions.
And, Adam, it bears absolutely no resemblance to the 2001 Focus in either appearance or performance.
No diesel or performance
No diesel or performance models though.
Though looooool at 300bhp to the front wheels
As a former owner of a 2001 Focus
Yuck.
It was a fun car to drive, but I never had to remember to bring it in for an oil change, because, like clockwork, something would break every five months.
Not an exciting car
But utility has its place. That tiny tub got us through a bunch of lean years simply because it never broke down, and hauled all we needed up to the point when the young-uns got leggy enough to be uncomfortable in the back. It got 35-40 mpg on the highway.
In any case, my TDI wagon blows the doors off of pretty much any car that I've had - and gets 50mpg on road trips (well, 45 with two boats up top, three adult-size humans, full load of stuff and a three bike rack). But we are at a different life stage now, where we value different things.
You should do that corn
You should do that corn conversion some TDI folks do. Don't know how well it works but I met some hippies at a food coop that did it and said they could somehow push 100mpg
My parents had a Windstar
My parents had a Windstar that gave them nothing but trouble, they even had to have the entire engine replaced once. And the "check engine" light STILL came on without warning. It was an awful car. Meanwhile all of the Toyotas they've had have worked beautifully.
Probably had a treasure map by the Freemasons inside it,
indicating all the places to get food inside of Fenway Park that aren't painfully mediocre and egregiously overpriced. It is a small map.
I love this thread....
:)
/Volkswagen fan
I put two transmissions
in my '90 Taurus, plus a few other items. On the plus side the car was given to me so...