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Sedans Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable What Are Your Thoughts on the Return of the Taurus/Sable?
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Replying to: gregg_vw (Feb 22, 2007 12:07 pm)  On the other hand, one could drive an Audi A8 (at $70,000) or a Bentley Flying Spur (at $170,000) and not see any payback for that extra $100,000. That choice is just personal preference, and how much extension of a personal appendage one thinks he needs to buy The law of diminishing return applies here - In my case, the Lexus is just about the perfect car for my needs - it has the value proposition in the resale value, it has the image I need, without squandering money ( I actually don't have ) for a Bentley, which would only connote an obscene amount of ego in my case, not success. For my kids - an Oldsmobile will do - if they want an image car, they can work for it. As a student - struggling, poor and practical is the image they SHOULD have..... I actually get disgusted when I pass the high school parking lot and see it full of BMWs..... Those kids are clearly headed for USC (The University of Spoiled Children). 
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Replying to: nvbanker (Feb 22, 2007 4:22 pm) No kidding, you only get to worry about the image of the car you get to worry about making the payments on!
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Replying to: bristol2 (Feb 22, 2007 6:07 pm) But lets get back to discussing the name change from Ford 500 to Taurus. Does it change the image of this car? I don't think so. Ford needs to do something a lot more drastic than a name change to come back from the brink of bankruptcy. |
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Replying to: bristol2 (Feb 22, 2007 6:48 am) If the CEO of my company shows up in a Civic, I'm not sure that suggests success. I think I'd rather use a different metric to judge their success. But you can use what car they drive, if that's how you really feel. 
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Replying to: thegraduate (Feb 22, 2007 9:28 am) But it's the only right one.
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Replying to: albook (Feb 22, 2007 2:16 pm) Which impressed me for a few months. But now it's kinda sickening to look at, actually.
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Replying to: gtee (Feb 21, 2007 8:20 pm) Again from IntelliChoice the cost for 5 years of ownership of a 2007 Toyota Avalon XLS is: $37,711 They're making one HECK of a lot of assumptions, aren't they? Why not look at the 2005 models? And then use what I actually paid in the calculation, instead of whatever they assumed?
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Replying to: barnstormer64 (Feb 22, 2007 7:13 pm) |
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| Poor choice by Ford. 500 is a much better name than Taurus. I love the 500 dash, reminds me of '88 Audi 80 that I once owned. GM exterior designs remind me of my aunt. You know the one with too much cheap jewelry and dime store perfume and they're basically the same as 15 years ago with tweaking here and there. GM dashes must have been designed by Rubbermade, but have improved as of late. PS: the fix for GM brakes is called aftermarket parts. | |
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...fairly far afield here. Let's try to stick to opinions about the return of the names we all love or hate. If you're not a big fan, check out this carspace page: http://www.carspace.com/xcargrl for some rather humorous and musical videos. I quite like "the wreck of the Alan Mulally." |
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