This car is really much better than I thought it would be. I chose this car because of it's horsepower, I don't like a car under 300 HP but I must say that I am partial to 8 cylinder engines and being that this is a twin turbo 6 cylinder I was skeptical of how it will react but I have found that the power is there on tap. I still prefer a natural aspired 8 cylinder but I am not sorry I bought this car.
Gas mileage is my first complaint. I drove a Mercury Marquis for the last 14 years (a 2001 and a 2007) they both got much better mileage than this Taurus. The Taurus is really hard to see out of. I am 5'9 and my husband is 6'2" both of us complain about the difficulty seeing out of it. The back seat head rests block visibility. The rear end sits so high that even with the back up camera I have found that it sometimes does "see" obstacles like steep embankments. The front end blocks visibility when going over a steep drop (we live in a mountainous area) so these 2 may be specific problems to the terrain we live in.
Good car. Gets about 23 mph mix hwy and city. Very comfortable and has some pickup when getting on hwy. Problem is with the chrome peeling around tailights. Every 2010 Taurus I have looked at has the same exact problem. Ford will replace if still under bumper to bumper warranty, but they replace them with the same faulty tailight assembly. Ford will not replace them once out of warranty. I am on my second set of tailights and the chrome is peeling again. What a shame that Ford hasn't fixed the root cause of this problem and still stocks these faulty tailight assemblies. Really detracts from an otherwise nice car.
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