1994 Ford Taurus SHO review from North America

Transmission sliping into second gear.

A/C failed.

Back windows can't be rolled down from driver controls, but can be rolled up.

Power steering fluid leak.

One cylinder knocking excessivley.

Both cat-converters bad.

Over half of the dash controls don't work.

Hole in radiator.

Entire brake system going out.

Spark plugs replaced (previous owners fault, not company's)

I was facinated by this car since the day I first learned about it and fell in love when I saw it. No matter what anyone of my friends said about it could change my views on this car. Sure they have a lot of problems and are expensive to maintain, but the feeling you get driving this car makes all those problems disapear.

Most of the problems with the car wern't because the car was unreliable, they were because the 2 preivious owners didn't take care of the car at all. In fact, they put spark plugs on that were made for the regular Taurus and then gapped them as far as they could go so it was sluggish to say the least.

After tunning the car up and fixing what the previous owners did wrong it was a smooth driving car. After my relentless hard accelerations out of turns it finally started dropping gears, and fairly quickly too.

The steering on the car was like spreading butter, so smooth and fine. I could park that car on a dime. She handled like a godess.

Even though the brake system was said to be going out the car braked fantastic. I once changed lanes went from 75 to 10 mph in about 70 feet and made a turn into a raised up parking lot flawlessly, unlike my friend behind me driving the Celica which was going 45 and slowed to 10 by screeching its tires and almost losing control. I think pretty impressive considering my car weighs about 4800 pounds and his weighs about 2700.

Those seats just suck you right in too. Bolstering sides and lumbar support. The back seats proved to be quite slick though and passengers tended to slide across them during turns.

Some people say it's an unreliable peice of crap, but considering it's a super high output car you should never expect it to be. Would you expect a Ferrari Enzo to last as long as a Honda, no. This car was meant to chew bubblegum and kick ass and it ran out of gum.