At least it's a SHO.

That isn't the Yamaha motor under the hood bud... That's the 3.0 "vulcan" V6

Nah, the Fisheye cars didn't get the Yamaha V6. They had the Cosworth 3.4 V8, which did have Yamaha heads.

You can tell it's a SHO because of that front bumper with that foglight placement.

But it has a V6... look under the hood. there are only 3 plug wires. And the intake isn't chrome. Perhaps someone swapped the bumper?

oh god why. i owned one of these one of the worst cars ever T_T..this this is offensive to see at a car show. thats big for me to say because i love everything. i even love bosozoku cars alot.

Taurses were decent cars...

Is this the official death of car shows?

Wow! Someone took pretty much the ugliest car of all times and made it...
even uglier? Damn.

not pretty sure if like...

This picture made me cry... Not because someone did all that to a Taurus, but the fact that a Taurus is at a car show next to ACTUAL REAL cars that DON'T suck.

That's like putting a shitty 90s Chrysler Sebring convertible next to a 59 Cadillac convertible and calling them equals.

The Ford Taurus and Chrysler Sebring are fairly generic, but they're also recognizable in basic design and shape (at least I think so), and soon enough they'll be to us today what 50s and 60s cars were to people in the 80s - vintage. Now, vintage doesn't automatically mean classic, but it usually at least garners some respect. I'm unsure how well the Sebring sold but the Taurus was affordable, performed well (my family owned one) and very popular. It's not fancy-schmancy and luxurious like the overindulgent hulks that is your precious Cadillac. But it was a car. And that was all it needed to be. Sometimes beauty can be found in simplicity.

Cool story bro.

But it is okay to admit you or your family owned shitty cars and that you have no taste, no need to defend a crappy car just because money was invested in such a sad automobile.

I have worked in the automotive industry and retail and sales since the early 2000s... And grown up around just about every kind of car that has ever set wheels on the road. You want to know what mechanics call Tauruses and Sebrings? "Pieces of shit." Sebrings were terribly designed to the point where if you wanted to change the battery you have to take off a wheel and the inner fender well lining to even get at it, they also had to use GM side post batteries because they designed the cars so badly that they had to be in the dealers shops as much as possible and built them to fall apart after a certain mileage, likely why there are so few left on the road today.

The Ford TornAsses from the mid 90s up till 2005 or so with the 2003, 04, 05 being the absolute worst in terms of reliability especially with their terrible transmission problems. Even my boyfriend drove his dads old 1996 Taurus and remembers it as, "The ugly ass egg-mobile" and he is not a car nut, and it was constantly in the shop and eventually transmission seized up at 103,000miles like many others and would have cost more than the car was worth to repair. They tried to donate it to charity and the charity wouldn't take it, so it was sold as scrap metal.

Though luckily now Ford has much better car designs, reliability, practicality, and some of their new designs are quite attractive, while Chevy seems to be the one falling behind in the design department most right now.

I'm sorry but neither car will be seen as "classic" or "vintage" If you park a stock Sebring or Taurus next to said ACTUAL classic and vintage 59 Cadillac (even in terrible condition), or just about any car from any time older than the 70s (maybe even some of the sporty 80s cars), more people are going to stop and glance or gather round or compliment someone on said actual classic car... While pushing their shopping carts into and banging their doors against the Taurus or Sebring that looks like every other uninspired rental car on the road. It is sad to think of that, but not all cars were made to be good or classic.

Everyone is usually going to have fond memories of their first car, even if the rest of the world sees it as a piece of crap. Those 59 Caddies will go for over $60,000-$100,000 in crappy condition, not even running, while a Taurus will be rejected as a donation... Just saying.

I originally said something really mean in response, but, eh, I decided it wasn't worth the potential argument. But in the future, when correcting someone when they're so obviously mistaken in their opinion, try to be a little less of a condescending know-it-all.

Well if you don't like a smart-ass, maybe you would understand a dumb-ass better?

I don't know-it-all, I just know too much about cars... And a few other things.

Oh and if you don't want a condescending response, don't make a condescending post to start with. Pretty simple there.

Eh, fair enough I suppose.

Wow, the hatred for the Taurus here is amusing and baffling. Car nuts sure can be snobby.

SHO is a friggin beast of a car, standard models, not so much. Cars are what you make of them, and this one is a winner!

Why would someone do that to a perfectly good Taurus?
Oh well, someone had to do it, I suppose. XD

Thats alot of wasted effort on a ford

crush it

I've seen this at Good Guys car show in Des Moines once. I have photos of it