Advertised as a “shape and feel we’ve never seen before,” the aerodynamic 1986 Ford Taurus immediately appealed to the driving public. Ford sold more than 200,000 in its first year and more than a ...

Taurus became to Ford what the minivan was to Chrysler.” By 1992, the Taurus had beat the Honda Accord to become America’s best-selling car, but the oval-themed second generation that debuted ...

DETROIT (AP) -- With car buyers in a bearish mood, Ford Motor Co. is revamping its bull.The Dearborn automaker is set to debut it 2010 Ford Taurus this week at the North American International ...

Ford built the new Taurus on its global product development platform, relying on computer-aided design tools instead of life-size models to bring the car to market a year sooner.

Still, the vehicle that Ford settled on pushed domestic design far enough forward that the Taurus stood in as a futuristic car in RoboCop and Back to the Future Part II. It also aged relatively ...

Yet Taurus' place in automotive history is secure. In the mid-1980s, Ford wanted a game changer. Sedan design had grown stale. Taurus would be completely different — a car that people would ...

Ford design had been loosening up before that, according to Telnack. The 1979 Mustang, with a slanting front end, broke the mold of older Ford products. And European automakers were moving in the ...

Having received a mild facelift only a year ago, the current generation of the Ford Taurus sedan that originally debuted at the 2009 Detroit Motor Show isn’t due for a redesign for another few ...

Ford Taurus. What we loved: ... With a catchy design, the car debuted in 2006 and helped attract new buyers to a company that needed all the help it could get to avoid bankruptcy at the time.

A new Ford Taurus has debuted ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, and although the model shown was specific to the Chinese market, it signals a clear design departure for the nameplate going forward ...

The design philosophy of the Ford GT, emphasizing efficiency, could make its way into other vehicles, said Moray Callum. News Sports Autos Entertainment Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.