A very costly to maintain vehicle. I had a Mercury Sable some years ago and swore I would never look at another Ford car again, but made a mistake to buy a Ford Taurus just because it had a natural gas system. I can't find out the reason why it only starts from time to time, but never showed any codes when checked with a scanner.
Brakes go out all the time due to sticking calipers. Electrical problems and replacemnt of alternators, fuel pumps and so on. Stalling problems, front end wears out quickly - rack'n'pignion, rod ends, bearings...
In a word a car you would never want to buy again!
Ford means cheap, but costly cars!
Don't buy a Ford!
Go with GM, Chrysler-Benz!
Don't make the same mistake like me to buy a second Ford after the nightmare you've had with your first Ford!
I'm sorry your vehicle was not better to you. My 1993 GL model with 173,xxx miles on her has had a transmission rebuild @ 120,xxx, water pump at 102,xxx and a radiator directly after the pump because of minimal flow. However, the car has racked up over 110,000 miles while in my possession. It has never broken down on me, left me stranded, or failed to start. With routene maintenence she will probably live to see another 100,000 miles, so tough is this car. It is still reliable and an excellent vehicle. My previous car was a 1991 Corsica.
Well I have a large, but good all around taurus it breaks all the time and it drives very slow and it stalls, but I have a manual so I can start it when I'm moving it has 4 spare tires on it which makes it peel out vey nicly it takes off quick until about 120mph then it stalls and I have to pop the cluch to restart it has a geo tracker manual transsmission it was har to put it, but som fabicating I managed to make it work in 4gears the 5th gear doesn't work. I also made it a convertable the roof rusted through so I had to do somthing to make look nice again it is also rear wheel drive and has no suspension it is weld to the struts and has homade stablizer bars and I built the front end out off a cysler lebaron and welded the the piss out of it it does not go straight other than that I am very proud of my TAURUS.
Sorry GM owners, but I have a Ford Crown Vic 1992 with 227,000 on it. Put a transmission at 100,000. Put new brakes at 120,000. The car is very reliable and wouldn't give it up for a GM for nothing.
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