Ford set to produce last Taurus

[Steve Sears]

C'mon Cobram, and I suppose you're going to say next that the taillights on 
Bricklins were taken from a Pantera ;-)
My parents had a Taurus wagon and like so many others, it barfed up the auto 
transmission after a few years of light driving.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ (aka prototype Dorf Taurus?)
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes (prototype lawnmower)
----- Original Message ----- 
> From: cobram at juno.com
> Subject: Re: Ford set to produce last Taurus
> To: larrycleung at gmail.com
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
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> <larrycleung at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The first Taurus/Sable came out in 1986. The type 44 came out in
>> 1984.
>>
>> At the time Ford said that they had the shortest turn around from
>> concept to
>> production, 38 months.
>>
>> So, do you think it's truly a copy, or does the cold unemotional
>> reality of science dictate techno-(for the time) mobiles?
>
> I took the liberty of putting the correct subject line in, instead of the
> digest number, I guess it doesn't bother anybody else...
>
> Your statement proves the opposite.  The Germans didn't have a magic wand
> they could wave and bring a car from concept to production in 2 weeks.
> The US auto press was given a type 44 to test in early 1982, I have an
> article or two around somewhere, this 1982 model had very few differences
> from the type 44 offered for sale in 1983 in the US market.
>
> If you look at the first Taurus off the assembly line (it's at the Ford
> Museum),  change the grill and some other Mickey Mouse trim parts and
> you've got an early type 44.
>
> Take a WILD guess where Ford recruited most of the engineers who worked
> on the Taurus project at the time.....it's not that hard to explain such
> a short turnaround time between concept to production when someone else
> has already done most of your R & D.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
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