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2010 Ford Taurus SHO Possibly In The Works, Ford SHOpping Idea To Focus Groups

According to an SHO Club member who posts at V8SHO.com, Ford has been contacting groups of past Taurus SHO owners to talk about the 2010 Ford Taurus and the possibility of an SHO performance version. Though no drawings, facts, figures or anything else concrete was shown, we can probably draw some inferences from the fact that they specifically asked SHO owners about their vehicles. Interestingly, they had a Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Chevy Impala on hand, all with the identifying marks taped over, and asked the SHO enthusiasts what they liked about the vehicles. Some of that discussion below: More »

12:30 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Matt Hardigree
7,419 views, 51 comments

Latest by campionelancia: It's design design design! more »

found on craigslist

Baller Status: 1600 Bucks Worth of Taurus SHO

Having sold quite a few cars on Craigslist, I can say with some authority that there are no car buyers as flaky, confused, and generally maddening as Craigslist car shoppers. If you get 10 guys who want to come over to see the car, you might as well schedule them all for the same time and place, because only one will show up... if you're lucky. But maybe worst of all is the general cluelessness. If your ad features flashing bold 48-point text stating This car has a manual transmission. NOT AN AUTOMATIC!, complete with 50 photos of the gearshift, clutch pedal, throwout bearing, etc., the best you can hope for is that only 80% (instead of the usual 95%) of potential buyers will ask "hey is it a autamattick ur car?" Right. So, here's a seller of a $1,600 SHO who's seen a few of those guys as well, and he's making a valiant- yet doomed- effort to filter out the most crazy-making of car shoppers. We say he deserves Best of Craigslist status. Thanks to LTDScott for the tip! [Craigslist Western Maryland]

8:00 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,110 views, 68 comments

Latest by IronEagle: One of my top 5 prettiest engine bays ever. Fark Ford for not bringing us the 1st gen Probe GT more »

classic ad watch

The 1989 Taurus SHO: Power In The Hands Of a Fortunate Few


Still one of the coolest-looking engines ever to come out of Detroit- well, the Yamaha V6s were installed in Detroit, anyway- Taurus SHO was quite the hot rod back in '89. This would have had the effect of making the non-SHO Taurus seem even more boring, had such a thing been possible. 220 horsepower doesn't seem like much these days, even in a front-driver, but that engine even looks good when it's sitting in the junkyard!

2:15 PM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,234 views, 33 comments

Latest by danio3834: Ive looked at an almost bought countless SHOs. Theyre a really attractive package, but unfortunately its really difficult to find more »

hoon of the day

Hoon of the Day: Rev, Taurus SHO, Rev!

When you have a Ford Taurus SHO you don't love any more and you're feeling hoonic, what do you do? Well, you could take advantage of that screamin' Yamaha V6 and do a jump that will be spoken of in hushed tones for generations to come... or you could just stand on the throttle and do a front-wheel burnout until the engine goes kaboom. These hoons appear to have taken the latter approach. Simple, yet effective.

2:30 PM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Murilee Martin
4,566 views, 54 comments

Latest by the good dr zero: @smokeydog001: Is it really hooning unless it involves speed? Or at least some motion. Anyway, this guy should get the little more »

choose your eternity

PCH, Front-Drive Detroit Muscle Edition: Turbo Neon or Taurus SHO?

Whoa, we've had two photo finishes in a row now- first Friday's Repo Man Edition and then yesterday's Lancia Thema versus Baldwin Motion Vette Choose Your Eternity polls have really been too close to declare a winner. And tough choices are what Hell is all about, right? Well, that plus a car that would be really, really fun if you could only get the damn thing working. With that in mind, we're going all patriotic with today's tough choices- some folks think that Detroit never could get the front-drive hot rod done right, but what about the Dodge SRT-4 (or, ahem, a somewhat cheaper facsimile) and the Ford Taurus SHO?
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5:30 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Murilee Martin
3,480 views, 76 comments

Latest by mr.chophoppers: I have no interest (positive nor negative) in an early SHO, probably an automatic. But I truly loathe Neons, and a more »

junkyard find

1991 Taurus SHO

While trolling the aisles at my local self-service junkyard a while back, I caught a glimpse of a really cool-looking engine in my peripheral vision. "Whoa! What was that?" I thought, backtracking to take a look. And whaddya know, it was a good ol' early-90s Taurus SHO. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Murilee Martin
8,004 views, 49 comments

Latest by edgecrusher13000: nice find. i have two 93s trying to get rid of one the tranny is out but engine is good more »

news

SHO Me The Twin Force, Baby! Rumors Of Performance Taurus Tease The Interwebs

FoMoCo forums are all atwitter with people claiming to have the inside skinny on the possibility of a Super High Performance version of the Ford's newly renamed Taurus. So what have we heard thrown over the back fence from Dearborn? Well, we're getting tios that a high-performance model of the Taurus is undergoing testing in Dearborn. We've also heard, and I dunno how much stock I'll put in this one, but it is from one of our reliable sources, that
"mills with both TwinForce and Yamaha are being tested...the only thing I'm worried about is that it may not reach production...more of a feasibility test, but we shall see."
But on top of our own sources, Blue II over on BlueOvalForums, a member who's called almost all of FoMoCo's most recent bold moves is now claiming:
"Not sure if this is Mulally news but Taurus will get the Twin Force engine. Not sure if it will be called SHO though."
The Twin Force, as everyone remembers, is the new 3.5-liter V6 twin-turbo direct injection engine debuting in the Lincoln MKR concept. The Twin Force delivers 415 horsepower and 400 foot-pounds of torque - comparable to and better than some V8's. We don't know how much, if any, of this is true, but as a reminder of what could be, we've reprinted the 2009 SHO Concept pictures from BringBackTheSHO below. – Ray Wert More »

1:00 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Ray Wert
5,994 views, 14 comments

Latest by Nightwing: I could possibly this myself in one of these someday. more »

retro

SHO Me The Bold Moves! Enthusiasts Create Web Site Asking Ford To "Bring Back The SHO" Taurus

In 1989, Ford took their sales leading Taurus and took it from sedan for the mere mortal to a sports sedan for the gods. Turning a management mis-fire into a minor miracle, Ford execs took engines from a dead deal with Yamaha and inserted the 3.0-liter V6's into their pedestrian four-door and watched as the performance boosted up to 220 hp and 200 lb-ft of torque when coupled with the 5-speed MTX-IV manual tranny. They called this special sports sedan the Super-High Output, or SHO. Other than the SHO one-off wagon for Car und Driver the only real change to the SHO came in 1996, when we saw the death of the SHO's manual tranny but it also received an upgraded 3.4-liter V8 and saw its power output pop to 235 hp and 230 lb-ft of torque. Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking — this is all well and good, but why should I care right now? You should care because a small group of FoMoCo enthusiasts is all hard-up over the recent re-naming of the five hundred to the vaunted Taurus nameplate. They're so gung-ho over the decision, they've gone and created a web site urging FoMoCo to bring back the SHO — they've even put together some concept sketches of what a new SHO Taurus could look like in the gallery below. So if you're interested in seeing a high-po fo'-door in Ford's future, head on over and have your voice heard. – Ray Wert More »

3:00 PM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Ray Wert
2,224 views, 15 comments

Latest by Confusatron: *cough* The TwinForce V6 should bolt right in to the 500, er Taurus. http://jalopnik.com/cars/detroit-auto-show/detroit-auto-sh... more »