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de addrian » 03 Feb 2010, 12:52
de Cornel001 » 03 Feb 2010, 13:20
$1 scrie:$2The 3.5-liter V6 in the 2010 Ford Taurus seems like an afterthought here. Its output of 263 horsepower at 6,250 rpm and 249 pound-feet of torque at 4,500 rpm hardly rates with the competition and peaks a little far up the rpm scale to promise comfortable motoring. Fortunately the six-speed automatic transmission picks up the slack, and the Taurus never feels breathless or sluggish in the way the Five Hundred did with its continuously variable transmission (CVT).
At the same time, the Taurus is not quick. It gets to 60 mph from a standstill in 7.8 seconds (7.5 seconds with 1 foot of rollout like on a drag strip), and does the quarter-mile in 15.7 seconds at 88.9 mph. If you had four passengers with you, a calendar would be the requisite measurement tool.
It's easy to feel a twinge of embarrassment while slinging this 4,042-pound car through a corner, but there's no need, since a BMW 7 Series weighs 500 pounds more and no one is ever embarrassed by it. The stability control always stays engaged, probably what you expect from a passenger sedan, so cornering grip on the skid pad is limited to 0.79g (not so bad) and speed through the slalom peaks at 60.3 mph (pathetic). It comes to a halt from 60 mph in 131 feet, which is what you expect.
Yet from behind the wheel, there's no maneuver that you won't attempt. While the Five Hundred always proved well-balanced at the limit, it used to sink submissively to the bump stops of the suspension when you got serious, making it seem wimpy even when it wasn't. Now the suspension feels far better managed in the European style, and the Taurus uses all of its travel with well-damped precision until you finally peel the tires off the rims. None of this car's front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive competition corners as adeptly, and the guys at GM might consider a quick fact-finding trip to the Dearborn proving ground to discover how the Ford guys have been able to suspend the laws of physics in such a heavy car.
The Taurus is just big, that's all.
de Mondy man » 03 Feb 2010, 14:46
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