Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Ford
- Production
- October 1985 – October 2006, May 2007 – March 2019
- Model years
- 1986–2019 (2007 sold only to fleets)
- Class
- Mid-size car (1985–2007), Full-size car (2007–2019)
- Layout
- Transverse front-engine, front-wheel drive , Transverse front-engine, all-wheel drive (2008–2019)
- Predecessor
- Ford LTD (for mid-size)
- Successor
- Ford Freestyle/Taurus X (station wagon), Ford Fusion and Ford Five Hundred (sedan; for the fourth generation), Ford Taurus (China)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car model
- Subclass of
- executive car
- Has part
- Ford Taurus 6th generation
- Follows
- Ford LTD
- Manufacturer
- Ford Motor Company
- Image
- Ford Taurus 2.0L Ecoboost Limited D568 FL Ingot Silver (1).jpg
- Height
- 1503
- Width
- 1878
- Length
- 4996
- Said to be same as
- Mercury Sable
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- wheelbase
- 2949
- Commons category
- Ford Taurus
- Commons gallery
- Ford Taurus
- different from
- Ford Taurus China
- inception
- 1986-00-00
- discontinuation date
- 2019-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ford Taurus is an automobile that was manufactured and marketed by the Ford Motor Company in the United States from 1985 to 2019. From 1985 to 2009, Ford marketed the Taurus alongside its rebadged variant, the Mercury Sable. Four generations of the high-performance version (named the Ford Taurus SHO) were also manufactured from 1988-1999 and 2009-2019.
The original Taurus was a milestone for Ford and the American automotive industry, as the first automobile at Ford designed and manufactured using the statistical process control ideas brought to Ford by W. Edwards Deming, a prominent statistician consulted by Ford to bring a "culture of quality" to the enterprise. The Taurus had an influential design that introduced new features and innovations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ford Taurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.