Shocked.... I did not know this existed

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
05/31/2018 at 07:03 • Filed to: None

Ford Taurus.... X

Friggin SUV Taurus.

So many questions... do they make an SHO version? Is it SHO...X? or X SHO?

Feel like all my life I’ve been living a lie.... oh wait... I have been living a lie.

DISCUSSION (38)

smobgirl > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 07:14

There was some confused googling when I saw one a couple months ago too.

PartyPooper2012 > smobgirl
05/31/2018 at 07:17

I am so sad I will never know answers to my questions...

Like in terminator (I don’t know how many of the movies came out but say 10) in Terminator 10 ... would the cops jump into their ford taurus vehicles to go chase bad guys...? Would it be the sedan... or SUV?

Is it ford Taurus SHOX or ford taurus XSHO for SHO versions?

I see cops using ford taurus sedans nowadays... do they use taurus X at all?

smobgirl > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 07:19

You can’t do this to me when I’m about to be stuck on a plane for 3 hours!

PartyPooper2012 > smobgirl
05/31/2018 at 07:22

3 hours? you gonna read more about it ... TODAY... you gonna be ok. Alternatively, pay for wifi on the plane and you will see it develop live-ish

CalzoneGolem > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 07:46

I cross shopped these and the Freestyle before I bought my Forester. These were all much pricier for some reason.

PartyPooper2012 > CalzoneGolem
05/31/2018 at 07:51

My parents own an outback and those were notorious for head gasket issues. Do the subarus still have that issue? If so, could that be the reason they are cheaper?

Thomas Donohue > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 07:57

My brother and his wife have one, and they love it. They are torn because it’s almost 12 years old and will need a replacement, but it hasn’t been made in years. They want nothing else but another TaureX.

CalzoneGolem > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:12

No this does not affect the value of Subarus in New England. Also it is not an issues with all Subarus.

PartyPooper2012 > CalzoneGolem
05/31/2018 at 08:13

Cool. I would much rather own a subaru than a ford. I’ve been bitten by the ford snake a few times

McMike > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:19

The Ford Freestyle was the replacement for the Taurus station wagon when Ford dropped the Taurus name in place for the “Five Hundred.” When Ford went back to “Taurus” they changed the name from Freestyle to “Taurus X”

Hardly an SUV, It’s just a wagon.

PartyPooper2012 > McMike
05/31/2018 at 08:22

i don’t think it’s an offroader or any sort of sporty utilitarian vehicle, but it has the size and shape of an suv. Would a crossover be more applicable? I don’t want to tarnish wagons with it.

Kinja'd!!!

McMike > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:26

I agree. Ford threw the “X” on it to try to market it as something more than a wagon (which is exactly what it was).

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:42

it was basically the inbetween for the Freestyle and the Flex, caught in a no mans land of not quite wagon not quite suv.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Thomas Donohue
05/31/2018 at 08:43

the flex is basically the updated version, and with the 3.5 ecoboost it MOVES!

facw > McMike
05/31/2018 at 08:49

Ford didn’t drop the Taurus name for “Five Hundred”. The Fusion was the new Taurus. As much as people hate to hear it, the Five Hundred was the replacement for the Crown Victoria (Ford kept making the Crown Vic for a few more years, but that was almost entirely for fleet sales). Then they brought back the Taurus name because no one was buying the Five Hundred, though of course no one bought the full-sized Taurus either.

Ash78, voting early and often > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:51

The Ford Freestyle (and Alan Mulally’s last-ditch renaming here), Chrysler Pacfica, and Mercedes R-class are three good examples of decent vehicles that came out before the term “crossover” was even in widespread use.

Behold the power of marketing. Being ahead of the curve can suck (it doesn’t help that the Freestyle had a crappy CVT or that the other two became orphans of the Daimler shakeup)

Urambo Tauro > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 08:57

Had the same reaction after seeing one a few years ago. I thought it was a weird badge swap at first, and didn’t get the joke.

PartyPooper2012 > smobgirl
05/31/2018 at 08:58

Look how much info you now have. Hope the 3 hour flight was less and you are going to have fun wherever you went.

PartyPooper2012 > Urambo Tauro
05/31/2018 at 09:00

Poor lady who was driving one yesterday. I am sure she saw that I was ogling at her car and I am sure she had no idea why. Some weirdo in a corvette is jelly of her Taurus X

Sorry lady. It’s not you. It’s me

Thomas Donohue > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
05/31/2018 at 09:08

But it still looks like this:

Kinja'd!!!

Dogsatemypants > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 09:20

Meh car nominee

PartyPooper2012 > Dogsatemypants
05/31/2018 at 09:22

probably most meh car ever but i don’t actually know. Never owned one. never drove one. never knew it existed till last night it was driving next to me

Frenchlicker > McMike
05/31/2018 at 09:25

Huh, I always thought it was the other way around.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Thomas Donohue
05/31/2018 at 09:29

yeah? and? it looks way better than the old taurs x. at least in my opinion it does

Takuro Spirit > CalzoneGolem
05/31/2018 at 09:53

‘some reason’

Third row.

V6.

Larger.

More ‘luxury’.

BahamaTodd > McMike
05/31/2018 at 09:53

Same thinking at Buick. TourX even sounds almost the same.

Kinja'd!!!

BahamaTodd > Thomas Donohue
05/31/2018 at 09:55

Buick has a TourX. Close enough?

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 10:06

I had a freestyle which had the same body and interior but a different drivetrain. Interior holds tons of stuff. 3 rows, the third row being small but not awful. Second row could be a bench or captains chairs. My freestyle was pretty reliable except for when the A/C system Grenaded itself at 155,000 miles.

Thomas Donohue > BahamaTodd
05/31/2018 at 10:10

Will mention it to them. That’s definitely my segment of the market.

Though I do own a Touar-Eg.

oldmxer > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 10:40

formerly known as Freestyle, more toward the wagon end of the spectrum

punkgoose17 > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 11:58

There were no ecoboost engines available. All transmissions were auto. AWD was available and most of the cars produced were AWD.

smobgirl > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 12:21

We have definitely been educated.

I’m in Orlando to go to Universal, so I’m pretty excited!

PartyPooper2012 > smobgirl
05/31/2018 at 12:37

OOOOH!!! RENT TAURUS X!!!

Dogsatemypants > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 20:26

I mainly remember them as rental cars

Tristan > PartyPooper2012
05/31/2018 at 22:17

Sooo... I saw your post this morning and thought “gee, maybe this could be a good wifecar- let’s check the list of Craigs... OMG, these are REALLY cheap!” So I found one at a shitty lot on the way home from work to check out... I like it A LOT! I’m still a ways off from buying anything, but this just got bumped to the top three with the last gen RAV4 (boring, but totally reliable and usable) and Mazda 5 (still haven’t found one close by to check out in person).

PartyPooper2012 > Tristan
06/01/2018 at 06:19

woooow! Just WOW.

Please remember that I am NOT an advocate for Ford vehicles. This post was not an endorsement or a solicitation.

I know nothing about them and thus was shocked to see one. That is all.

If you like it, better put a ring on it... but considering Ford couldn’t even come up with a different name for it, what’s the worst that could happen?

I want to see mustang SUV and Expedition coupe

PartyPooper2012 > Dogsatemypants
06/01/2018 at 06:20

imagine my face when I saw it on the road and I didn’t even know it existed - never mind used as a rental.

Tristan > PartyPooper2012
06/01/2018 at 07:49

I grew up a Ford guy, and currently own a Chevy, a Jeep and a Studebaker... That’s been my attitude towards Ford for a few years.

Don’t really care about a name... It’s of little consequence. The car has comfy seats, lots of head room for my tallness, and appears to have good reliability and safety. What more could I want in a cheap family car? :)