Talk:Ford Taurus SHO

Gen 4 or Gen 6

We need to get this straight. As a Taurus it is a gen 6 but as a SHO it is called a gen 4. You can’t have gen 6 SHO without having a gen 4 or 5 SHO. It is irrelevant that the car is first and foremost a Taurus when talking about the generation of the model of the SHO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.30.59 (talk) 13:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

merge the TAURUS sho and TAURUS topics

Just eliminate the confusion for the general public that is caused by people refering to the 6 gen Taurus and 4 gen sho. as 2 different cars. Merger the 2 topics together and describe the sho TRIM LEVEL in the Taurus topic. Search for mustang gt and look at the topic it goes to. james

FYI: the GEN # refers to the chassis of the car not the trim level —Preceding unsigned comment added by 00wagon (talk • contribs) 12:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. There is no such thing as a Gen4 SHO build by Ford. There's someone who dropped a 3.4L Yamaha into a Gen4, but that's different. The new SHO is a Gen6 SHO. Period. You don't see people calling their older Taurii generations based on trim level. Despite what many SHO owners like to think, the SHO is just a trim, not a different car. 152.3.76.220 (talk) 02:24, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I worked for Ford in Detroit when we introduced the SHO. The SHO is substantially different than your normal Taurus. It had a different team in Ford separate from the Taurus team (the SVO guys). Different engine, suspension, characteristics. Different engine control system & engine electronics. Claiming the SHO is "just a trim" is flat out wrong and you don't need to be a SHO owner to know that. Some repair shops won't work on a SHO and often many parts need to be special ordered. And from a branding perspective, there's a difference between saying you own a Taurus and saying you own a SHO. The SHO has it's own history off the Taurus that needs to be explained separately in it's own article. We deliberately meant the SHO to be separate and apart from the normal Taurus. Corwin8 (talk) 00:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Mistake!

Fourth generation 2000-2006 There is nothing about fourth generation F taurus in the article

Fifth generation 2009-... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.59.154 (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Article Corrections

Please don't blanket revert my corrections. The article contained some incorrect information (i.e. Fiero) and I removed the bogus info. I worked with Ford so and corrected the cites. Ask me anything, but don't blanket revert without discussing first. Corwin8 (talk) 06:19, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay then, here's the problems with your edit:

1. That reference you changed was used elsewhere in the article, so the other statement it was used on is no longer properly referenced.

2. You removed referenced information (the original intent of the Yamaha V6 being use in a small two-seater) and altered other referenced information (originally meant to be built for 1989 only to originally meant for 1989 to 1993) based on "Ford told me so." We get that argument all the time. It doesn't hold water. Verifiability, not truth.

3. You removed something that was referenced directly to Ford marketing material.

4. Spamming of your own website ("The first SHO website!").

--Sable232 (talk) 01:16, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

The "small two-seater" magazine reference mentioned the story as just that, the magazine (Ford Muscle?) represented it as a story widely accepted on the internet. There is no direct Ford verification of the two-seater story, so it should not be considered valid. I do understand the need for a stronger reference and will get a reference that "holds water". BTW, I wasn't spamming, according to archive.org the website has indeed been up since 1996. Last, I didn't see any direct reference to Ford marketing material, although I think there was an archive.org link to a mailing list post that quoted Ford marketing material. Corwin8 (talk) 21:37, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

1991 taurus sho value

i have stored in heated garage 1991 sho plus white 7400 miles never driven in rain or snow perfect show room new — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.99.73 (talk) 21:38, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Build numbers

Ford published Taurus SHO specific build numbers and issued certificates to owners for 2010-2012 from the Ford Racing division. Since the build numbers support the exclusivity of the model, are factual numbers, and are of an interest to the community, I would like to post a chart of these numbers and the breakdown for the 2010-2012 MY. Thoughts? Markathome99 (talk) 15:21, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Motorsport: 2nd Generation

I'd like to add a section pertaining to the 2nd-generation's motorsport history, but not sure whether to add as a stand-alone section, or as a subsection under 2nd-generation. Here's the text:

Taurus SHOs were campaigned successfully in North American production endurance racing. With as many as five SHOs on the grid (the Multimatic Motorsports entry plus the four ‘Ninja Turtle’ SHOs ), the model finished 1st (Multimatic Motorsports) and 3rd in the 1992 Firestone Firehawk endurance series’ Sport class against contemporary 2-door coupes including the Volkswagen Corrado, Toyota MR2 Turbo, and Mazda RX-7. The Multimatic-entered SHO placed 1st in the Canadian Endurance Road Racing Championships’ Sport class standings the following year . Scalapaedia (talk) 21:51, 9 March 2016 (UTC)