1989 Ford Taurus Reviews

Sounds like you bought used junk. Perhaps with a 6 year old car, you should have been suspicious that it had more than 70,000 miles on it when you bought it. You drove it 83000 in just two/three years... (153000-70000). If your transmission goes bad, it's hard to blame the Ford Taurus. Perhaps it was the people who replaced it.

Are you the mileage police? A six year old car with 70,000 miles is roughly 11,667 miles per year. Looks like that's close to average. Your comment on another review states that 8,000 miles a year is close to impossible. Ever hear of someone driving a car to the train station to commute? Elderly retired drivers? Stay at home moms? I drive my car 50 miles a day to and from work. My semi retired mother drives her car about 35 miles a week. How do you like that?

You must work for Ford.

So, you bought an 8 year old car with "66,000" miles on it? Isn't that a bit unbelievable? 8,000 a year? You pay $3250 and expect a brand new car. Probably had 166,000... even 266,000 when you bought it.

To the commentor who asked if I expected to have a new car for $3250:

Please point out where in my review I stated that I expected this car to be "new".

Also, I am interested in knowing how you would like me to report the odometer reading if you don't want me to post what the clock actually said when I acquired the car. I long suspected that the odometer was tampered with, so please forgive me for failing to mention that in my review. The mechanical failures listed on my review occurred at the miles which the car's odometer stated. Should I include a footnote at the bottom of the page stating that these miles MAY not be the actual miles because a previous owner MAY have set the odometer back? Perhaps you can give me a make up assignment. Will I still pass your class, or do I get detention anyway?

I purchased this car when I was 17 years old, and the car was eight years old when I bought it. I had many problems with the car, and what I spent in repairs was far more than the car initially cost me. I have seen and owned cars well over eight years old that were more reliable. I wrote my review based in fact. Based on MY experience with MY car. And since you weren't in my passenger seat for the three years I owned it, I'm willing to bet I know more about my experience with the car than you do.

This website invites car owners to write reviews based on their own experiences with their own vehicles. My particular Taurus had a plethora of mechanical failures within a three year period of time. Did I expect the reliability of a new car? No, that would be plain stupid. What I did expect was better reliability than I got, and since the other four cars I've owned (three of which I have driven past 200,000 miles) proved far more dependable than the Taurus, I gave it worse than average marks in my review. I listed the specific issues I had with it so other readers would know why I gave it those marks. Oh, and just so you know, I bought each and every car USED. Read some other reviews on any car listed on this site and you'll find varying opinions on each one. Is every person who had a problem with their car full of it? I highly doubt it.

The next time you comment on someone's review, perhaps you should actually read it before putting words into another person's mouth. Putting $6,000 worth of repairs into an eight year old car over a period of three years is not acceptable to me, and the next time I have a car that requires that kind of maintenance, I'll give that one bad marks too.

Get your facts straight before posting a comment like that.