Ford is very good choice for Trucks
not so good for cars.
The Tauruses were (are?) nice cars. For the money.
Nice being, nice interior, ok ride, roomy.
The reliability, was the problem. A lot of different suspension stuff including the half-shafts were replaced twice during it's 320,000 reign. It was like every month a 2-300 dollar bill was needed to keep the car repaired. By the time, everything was fixed, the brakes were up for replacement, and so it would go, if you missed a month or two, you knew the next repair would be a doosy.
Another one required a new/re-built tranny after reaching the 18,000 kilometre mark.
Luckily that was covered by the warrantee,.... but ya gotta ask yerself, ....."how can a car with less than 19k need a new transmission?"
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