I don't like you anymore.

The Fusion is such a better car than any Taurus ever was. Your lovefest for the Taurus is almost nauseating.

Decent car for point A to point B yes--but, nothing after that.
Let me set the stage for you.
It's 1984. Ford sucks. Even more than they do today which, I know, is hard to believe. They're offering no competitive products, they're in heavy debt, and they're honestly looking at the possibility of declaring bankruptcy. They decide to try
one more time to change everything.
Ford engineers then purchase an example of every single midsize sedan on the US domestic market. They tear the cars to
pieces, identifying every single fault, flaw, and strong point. They look to every single vehicle for pointers. They spend months of 18-hour days designing what they believe to be the most competitive product they can come up with. They throw on a futuristic body with no grille. They have no idea what's going to go on when it's released.
The car is released to the public in November of 1985 as a 1986 model. Everyone in the project reports being unable to sleep in the days before debut.
A year later, the vehicle was the best selling automobile in the United States.
It changed automotive design and engineering (bucket seats! Floor-mounted shift lever! Four-cylinder
and six-cylinder!). It changed automotive styling. Look at any pre-Taurus midsize sedan: boxy, bulky, and dated. Then look at the Taurus. We all owe it something for being daring. It might not look it today, but it was out there at the time. Finally, it sent the Japanese back to the drawing board. Toyota had just released a new Camry in '86, and Honda had just released a new Accord that year too. That's the only reason Taurus didn't capture best-selling automobile for the entire year. What's comical is the Japanese did full redesigns in '90 (Honda - and
again in '94) and '92 (Toyota) and yet it was Ford, who
didn't fully redesign, who had the best-selling car in the US from 1992 to 1995. Boo yeah. It wasn't until Ford conceded the segment with the 1996 redesign, the worst in automotive history, that the Taurus finally gave up its dominance.
Say what you will about how it's boring, or how it's ugly, or how quality sucks. The Ford Taurus is the second most significant automobile in Ford's history, to the Model T, and ahead of the '64 Mustang and the '91 Explorer.
It changed the world. Imagine Ford being able to do that now.
Toronado
Yeah, I'm not going to have this argument again. Well covered territory. You all know how I feel, and we all have evidence to back our arguments.
YSSMAN
...And I'd take any W-Body since 1988 over ANY Taurus, as they were that bad in my opinion. The only "redeeming" model was the SHO, and by the time they had opted for the new car and changed from the V6 to the V8, it was all-over. Thats why whenever me and my friend go out, we never take her Taurus, we take the Jetta.
It wasn't a car guy's car, nor did it pretend to be - it was simply a car for the masses that moved the game forward like no one else could dream of doing. The Taurus moved the game forward for the masses like the Altima did for performance people when it was redesigned in '02.