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Originally Posted by recxjake

Wrong... the worst deccision Ford ever made was to drop the Taurus name to start with.

Ford sold very little retail Tauruses in the last few years. It took HUGE rebates to get them to move. Dealers wouldn't order them because we couldn't sell them. Most Taurus sales in the last few years were fleet sales.

Sure the Taurus has great name recognition. But for what? Try to get someone under 40 to buy one. If they wanted to call the 500 the taurus they should have done that from the beginning. They actually might have gotten some good press out of it. I just think Ford is going to take a beating over this. Heck, 2 months ago they Debuted the new 2008 Five Hundred at the detroit auto show. Now last month they Debuted the "new Taurus" at the Chicago auto show and it's the same frigging vehicle? We all know how much the press already loves ford. I can't wait to see the reviews on the "new" 08 taurus. I'm sure it'll go over swell.

Oh, and the Freestyle crossover (which was too similar name to the freestar to begin with) is now going to be called the "Taurus X"