The 2008 Ford Taurus X was unveiled at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show this week. The Taurus X is a full-size crossover that offers three rows of seating, a powerful 3.5-liter V-6 engine with six-speed automatic transmission. Safety equipment includes curtain air bags and AdvanceTrac® electronic stability control.
“The three-row Taurus X is a key element in our broad crossover lineup and is a great complement to the popular, two-row Ford Edge,” says Cisco Codina, Ford’s group vice president of North America Marketing, Sales and Service. “Like Edge, the new Taurus X delivers confident design, good power and handling, and plenty of standard safety equipment.”
Taurus X is also one of 12 new Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products to offer Ford Sync™ – a voice-activated, hands-free, in-car communications and entertainment system. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft, this Ford-exclusive system fully integrates mobile phones and digital media players into the vehicle.
The new Taurus X will reach showrooms late this summer.
As a thirty year old with no kids, I have no choice but to look at the Japanese cars. Besides the Mustang, there is not a single Ford vehicle I would be proud to own right now. And that hurts to say, having previously owned a Taurus SHO, 5.0 Mustang, and two Thunderbirds.
Get rid of this yuppie design team you have Ford, and quit thinking that everyone wants a "Crossover", to me they are nothing more than a wally wagon space ship.
I wonder why no American auto maker wants to make a family style station wagon! we hate SUV's and mini Vans!!! But what other choice is there?
I only wish that is was a few inches wider so I could get in a 4 foot sheet of plywood .
It is so easy to fold down seats and easy to park not like those bigger suv's.
The name Ford Taurus has always meant quality. I am very excited about this one.