Well, Ford, I have to hand to you. You did something that TTAC readers probably thought unlikely, improbable, maybe even downright impossible. I'm about to type a few words that most of you did not expect me to say.
I found a Ford that does not please me. His name? Taurus Limited. And we had a miserable week together.
I know, I know. I'm as surprised as you are. In fact, when I got behind the wheel 2016 Ford Taurus limited to Memphis International Airport, the last week I texted Mark Stevenson and said, "I like it already"
and it is true! the car was attractive all black. the 3.5-liter V6 seemed powerful enough to turn the front wheels to order. I had comfortable leather seats, SYNC 3, and a system of deep, resonating. the steering wheel felt comfortable with class (false?) wood trim on top. the visibility was good. the pillars were a bit obstructive, but no complaints seriously. And it costs only $ 32,585 (including a huge $ 2,750 broker money on the hood) as optioned!
what is not to love, right?
the back seat was large enough for two large adults (and a small child in the middle, with the stupid lump in the middle). Many return of comfort here, too. Nice, tasteful ambiance lighting in the door handles. Seemed like a nice place to spend a few hundred miles, if necessary. The Taurus was more than enough in the department of the rear seats.
Not only a drive from Disney World to practice inside, I could have easily fit the entire Disney vacation for my family of four in the area of cargo, too. The trunk was large enough to swallow several large suitcases, which makes my ever familiar red 27-inch suitcase Lilliputian look squarely in the back.
My rent was only 1,000 miles on the clock, so everything was like new, too. Everything on the car looked and felt the premium feel.
"I do not understand why people love this car," I said as I headed from the airport to my hotel Beale Street. "It's great!"
well, it would have been good if I have to drive the damn thing. Unfortunately, I did.
My first complaint is with the Spotify application SYNC 3. I could not select each song, only playlists. the application crashed approximately every 45-60 seconds, so renting Escape I had it a few months ago, it was best just to select USB as the source and manage my Spotify my iPhone 6S +. But I can live with this minor complaint. the worst, however, was yet to come
the V6 that seemed powerful enough in the parking garage felt weak and underpowered as I tried to merge on the highway -. and I really do not understand why the same engine powers my 2013 Ford Flex at home, and I never felt a lack of power available there.. Maybe I had higher expectations of the engine in the Taurus, because it is a sedan that is supposed to compete with the Impala V6 Pentastar and powered charger / 300. I'll summarize it this way: it is not, at least not in the powertrain department. I know Ford boasts 288 horsepower for this engine, but do not want you. In real life, it feels like 8 seconds 0-60 car.
My second disappointment quickly followed. The suspension became strangely tasteless on the entrance ramp, give me the kind of rocking and rolling motion that is experienced on a cruise ship. The combination of the soft suspension and the original tires absolutely inept provided a total lack of confidence in any cornering situation. It was not helped by management, either.
The return direction provided by this nice driving is described as anesthetized. I knew that the front wheels doing something, because actually turned car, but I might as well have sat behind the wheel of a low-cost configuration of Gran Turismo 3 simulator. The wheel can be rotated by several degrees in either direction before the Taurus accepted management. It reminded me when I tell my son to dress for school in the morning and five minutes later he was still sitting in his underwear watching Disney XD. Taurus is a bit like that.
This would all be manageable, except that the car is so damn heavy braking that is suffering badly, too. After you plow your desired curve peaks in the turns, and then you continue due to the braking of the track is unnecessary, which terminal understeer. I'm not talking high-performance driving here, people. I talk to turn on the highway. It's awful.
And I know that I've waxed poetic on the MKS and SHO in the past, but maybe it was the combination of all the above failures that made me appreciate the headquarters of the claustrophobia driver of the Taurus. The center console is really much, much too large and invasive, even for my 5-foot-9 self.
Fuel economy for the week was strangely poor, too. I observed a combined 19.8 miles per gallon on four days. I guess it should be expected, however, with a wheezing V6 and over 4,000 car books to move. I can not imagine how much this terrible car would be with the EcoBoost engine "improved" to 2.0 liters.
But, that being said, there is something that could have fixed all the problems I had with my Taurus, and I found it in the parking garage at my home airport his return home.
Yes. YES. More power of good EcoBoost engine, all-wheel drive and improved suspension. Is not that essentially what the new Continental will be? A new Taurus with more power and a better suspension? So where a 2017 Taurus integrated into the Ford range do? I think it does not. With a new, improved Fusion squeezing the bottom, and a tightening Conti from above, the Taurus seems to be unimportant, doomed to an existence fleet and the only police.
After my week with the Taurus, I can not say it would be a bad thing. In a world that has an Impala, a charger, and even (shudder) Maxima, the Taurus continues to be a black eye for Ford
I'll say for the millionth time :. 5.0-liter Coyote and rear wheel drive in this segment, Ford. Jolie-it please. Until you do this, you need to stop making a full-size sedan. It is not worthy of the Blue Oval.
[Images: © 2016 Bark M./The Truth About Cars]
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