The First Ford Taurus SHO Is The One History Will Remember
The Taurus is rightly credited as the car that saved Ford in the mid-1980s, but it has fallen on hard times these days. A massive sales success from its launch in 1985, the Taurus was futuristic enough to be the hero car in Robocop without much more than a black paint job. Today, though, large sedans are on the outs, drowning in the rising tide of crossover sales.
What better time, then, to take a look back at the best of all of them: the original V-6-powered Taurus SHO. An overlooked, approachable collectible, the first two generations are quick and comfortable, and well-looked-after examples are getting harder to come by. It's worth preserving them, too — the Taurus SHO is in many ways Ford's version of the BMW M5.
