The last Ford Taurus rolled off the assembly line on March 1, 2019, marking the end of an era. Once the go-to midsize five-passenger car, the Taurus was a mainstay on highways across the U.S. When ...

2008 Taurus X. Formerly called the Freestyle, the 2008 Ford Taurus X carries over as essentially the same vehicle but with a more powerful 3.5L V6 engine and new six-speed automatic transmission, ...

The Taurus was also able to topple the Honda Accord in 1992 as the best-selling car in America, selling 410,000 examples that year. Yet, by 2006 sales had plummeted and Ford decided to drop its ...

Advertised as a “shape and feel we’ve never seen before,” the aerodynamic 1986 Ford Taurus immediately appealed to the driving public. Ford sold more than 200,000 in its first year and more than a ...

Introduced at the 1985 Los Angeles Auto Show, the Taurus eviscerated the boxy Granada it replaced. Ford "listened to its customers in developing the car," says Matt Anderson, of The Henry Ford museum.

It’s also a reminder of just how successful Ford was when it introduced the Taurus to the world in 1986. The result of a $3 billion investment (about $7 billion adjusted for inflation), the ...

Donald Petersen, the Ford Motor Co. chief executive officer who helped pull the automaker out of a financial crisis in the 1980s with the introduction of the Taurus sedan, the best-selling car in ...