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What Are Your Thoughts on the Return of the Taurus/Sable?

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Re: Good Move [brucelinc] by heyjewel
Feb 16, 2007 (12:17 pm)
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Replying to: brucelinc (Feb 16, 2007 12:09 pm)

Ah! Went right over my humor-impaired head.
 
On the off topic - I'm still torqued that Chrysler bought AMC. Buyouts never help anyone AFAICS. Certainly not the workers more of whom will be jobless after a buyout.
 
In the aforementioned buyout, the great Lee Iacocca swore on a stack o'bibles that he would not close the historic Kenosha Wisconsin AMC plant - the oldest surviving car plant in the country - afer the buyout. Of course the lying SO_B did exactly that a year later.
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A Better Move by robertsmx
Feb 16, 2007 (1:53 pm)
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Taurus name had some value in the past. More so, when one threw in "SHO" with it. A lot of people still get excited about it.
 
Then, there is the Interceptor Concept that was revealed recently. Well, why not just dismiss the idea of a large barge renamed from 500 to Taurus, and just bring the Interceptor to the market atop Fusion? If Taurus name must stay, heck, just call it a Taurus.
 
That would be a worthy competitor to likes of 300C.
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Re: A Better Move [robertsmx] by heyjewel
Feb 16, 2007 (3:18 pm)
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Replying to: robertsmx (Feb 16, 2007 1:53 pm)

Give em 5 years for the Interceptor. Which will be called the Taurus I.
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Re: Good Move [heyjewel] by nvbanker
Feb 16, 2007 (3:40 pm)
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Replying to: heyjewel (Feb 15, 2007 8:21 pm)

And to me bringing back the name after you've killed the car is kinda like remarrying your ex-wife isn't it?
 
I see your point here jewel - however you JUST got divorced, so it's like a divorce annullment, know what I mean? You have a NEW Taurus, or an ALL NEW Taurus, (like the ALL NEW G6) - I'm just saying I thought it was retarded to kill the Taurus brand with the broad-based equity it had as a Ford Brand - standing for a family sedan with value. Doesn't mean you can't improve it, and heaven knows, it needed re-doing.
 
I just hope they do enough re-skinning of the 500 so that the Taurus-X pops a little.... There have been 07 Tauruses manufactured - so if they bring out a new 08 Taurus, it was never really murdered after all.....
 
That's what I mean.
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Re: lame [david123] by texases
Feb 16, 2007 (3:48 pm)
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Replying to: david123 (Feb 15, 2007 1:39 pm)

Yep - how many designs have ever been saved by desperate add-ons? I guess the fish-eye Taurus was made less offensive, but no band-aids will save the Taurus from being OK, average, but not exciting.
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Re: I Always Thought The Freestyle... [barnstormer64] by albook
Feb 16, 2007 (4:28 pm)
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Replying to: barnstormer64 (Feb 15, 2007 6:46 pm)

I like to look at when RATIONAL people (like myself) actually sell
Oh Please! Your not rational! Some might call you cheap. Than again, some might call those who call you cheap ill minded for spending that kind of money on a new car every 5 years. It's relativity. Just because you don't necessarily have the money to do something like this doesn't mean those who do aren't "rational."
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Re: I Always Thought The Freestyle... [albook] by barnstormer64
Feb 16, 2007 (4:39 pm)
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Replying to: albook (Feb 16, 2007 4:28 pm)

Just because you don't necessarily have the money to do something like this doesn't mean those who do aren't "rational."
 
Oh, I've got the money to do it. But I prefer to spend that money on OTHER things.
 
I define my car, not the other way around.
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Re: Good Move [nvbanker] by heyjewel
Feb 16, 2007 (8:37 pm)
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Replying to: nvbanker (Feb 16, 2007 3:40 pm)

Where've u been, H? The pix of the ALL-NEW Taurus X have been around for a couple of weeks:
 
http://www.blueovalnews.com/index.php?categoryid=12&p2_articleid=484
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Re: I Always Thought The Freestyle... [barnstormer64] by albook
Feb 17, 2007 (9:08 am)
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Replying to: barnstormer64 (Feb 16, 2007 4:39 pm)

Oh, I've got the money to do it. But I prefer to spend that money on OTHER things.
That's all you need to say. "TO every man his own." Som elike frequently driving new cars.
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Re: I Always Thought The Freestyle... [albook] by barnstormer64
Feb 17, 2007 (11:08 am)
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Replying to: albook (Feb 17, 2007 9:08 am)

Som elike frequently driving new cars.
 
Which is fine. But just don't go touting how much more ECONOMICAL it is do so (as they typically do).
 
Or, to put it another way, THEIR CHOICE to continually drive new cars is what forces them to buy the imports . . so they can't turn around and say that the domestics are "no good", since they'll never ever try one because of their silly spending habits.

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