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Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Ford Taurus Prices Paid and Buying Experience
47 messages, Last post on Jun 30, 2008 at 7:04 AM
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I bought a 1998 Taurus from a friend of mine. It was his company's car. I definitely think he gave me a great deal for $2000. It had ~145,000 miles on it (over a year ago). It has nearly 190,000 miles now. It's an OK. The dashboard lights don't work all that well. The interior light won't turn on when I open the door. The tape player wants to flip over and spit out occasionally. The passenger side electric door lock works independently of the other doors. I get 18-20 MPG most of the time although I drove it from Nashville to Chicago last month and got 38 MPG! The transmission is doing something strange... it is slow to engage and slow to disengage. I can feel the transmission disengage, not when I let me foot off the gas but when I'm pressing down on the brake. The transmission will sometimes bark the tires when first starting off. Supposedly there's a sensor in the transmission that has gone bad and the only way to fix it is to replace the transmission. Of the things I wished the designers did differently, better front cup holders, made the "ashtray" able to open when the center armrest was up/open, a splash guard to allow the drive belt to not get wet when driving thru a puddle, an "idiot light" to show whether the alternator OR the battery was going bad, and less wind noise around the tops of the doors at interstate speeds. 
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I got an Internet price from Westlie Ford - Mercury, Inc. in Camas, WA on 12/29 for a 2008 SEL. All he did was give me the same figures I got off the Ford “Build and Price page” and telling me what a good deal it was. $27090 MSRP and he could give it to me for $25590. What a deal, all he did was take off the Ford offered incentives. I told him we were not in a big hurry to buy, maybe late winter or spring.
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Replying to: jkinzel (Dec 30, 2007 12:48 pm) |
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Replying to: jkinzel (Dec 30, 2007 12:48 pm) You might want to try one of the many other Ford dealers in the Portland area. Since they likely have much higher sales volume than Westlie, they may be more likely to be willing to sell for a smaller margin. I had good luck in the past with the internet sales department at Landmark Ford in Tigard. |
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Replying to: richardmayo (Jan 05, 2008 10:17 pm)
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Replying to: jkinzel (Jan 05, 2008 11:29 pm) Just as a "for instance" in todays Sunday paper, I'm seeing an 08 Taurus AWD with an MSRP of $28,570 advertised for $23,977 (MSRP minus $1500 factory rebate minus $3093 dealer discount)
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Replying to: richardmayo (Jan 06, 2008 11:57 am) |
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Replying to: richardmayo (Jan 06, 2008 11:57 am) I will post how my shopping goes when I start in in the next few months. |
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It looks like Ford just raised the base price of the Taurus $240. The Limited is now 27470, was 27230, and the SEL is now $23485, was 23245. The destination charge is $750 on top of the above prices. |
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