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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=qwerty_86,10239]We've been discussing something like this at TCCA, but never thought that they were actually gonna rename the Five Hundred to the Taurus. Ford was taking a serious loss with the discontinuation of the Taurus though so i guess it makes sense. But still, it's not really true the Taurus' roots since it's a completely different car than the Taurus. The Taurus was close to what a traditional American car is: 6-passenger no-frills inexpensive large sedan. And the main thing was it was designed by Americans for Americans (whereas the Five Hundred is just a Volvo S80 with a new body). Basically a FWD version of the Crown Vic. I can't really see the Five Hundred with the Taurus nameplate.[/quote]
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ingo

Yes, a German made Ford Taunus P6

BlackIce_GTS

That's interesting, what is it really? A Taunus?

ingo

A Taurus for sale. O.k., 20 years too old and from the wrong continent, but very rare:

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=59031159&pageNumber=1&__lp- =5&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCE- NDING&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetex- t=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car- &maxFirstRegistrationDate=1970-12-31&ambitCountry=DE&zipcode=30989&zipcodeRadius=50&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=- EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de&tabNumber=- 1

And a lovely license-plate. :bave:

cieraguy

Regardless of the name I think they did a pretty nice job updating the car. I think they should have discontinued the 4th gen Taurus during 2004 and just named the Five Hundred a Taurus to begin with. I think the Volvo platform fits the market segment they're trying to reach better than the Fusion so they made a good choice at using the Taurus name on that platform. Don't get me wrong the Fusion is a good car but I don't think the Taurus name would fit it. I also think that renaming the Freestyle to Taurus X was a stupid idea. I doubt they'll wring out any more sales just because they tacked the Taurus name on it.

MBSL65fan

Well they could be used for police cars and taxis, so they will appear in some movies.

antp

If it is safe in crashes, we can hope to see many of these crashed in movies, like the old Taurus :grin:

qwerty_86

Probably not. The new ads in print and TV are lame.

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2677/mt0807rg8.th.jpg

MBSL65fan

They are acually pretty nice cars, although I think Five-Hundred sounds a lot better than Taurus. I think it was a stupid move really. The best think about the car is that it has a 5 star crash test rating. my question is though, would changing the name of the car make Ford sell more? We will have to see...

58_Roadmaster

Quote From: dwd4X4

Five Hundred is sort of boring and meaningless and has nothing to do with Ford.

They were invoking older nameplates, most notably, Fairlane and Galaxie whose suffix was 500. I know, however, of no past Fords for which the badge is spelled out "FIVE HUNDRED."

While this is on topic, if they ever resurrect the Galaxie series name, they'd better spell it right, the same as it was before (with "ie").

Long live Ford!

qwerty_86

Yeah, the Fairlane concept has been renamed the Ford Flex.
http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2007/03/ford_flex.html