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DAMASCUS, Md. (MarketWatch) — In the Manhattan Transfer’s fine rendition of “Trickle, Trickle,” Alan Paul urges a friend to “Please lend me your show.” While the car involved there is a Cadillac (two are coming soon for testing), these days Paul may well have been referring to the 2010 Ford Taurus. It looks nothing like the egg that set the world on fire in the late ’80s, and in my opinion is one of the best-looking cars on the road — inside and out. In fact, I would bet that few non-auto buffs would guess it is a Ford, albeit the top-of-the- line now. See in the ins and outs in the slideshow above. The Taurus is a big car at nearly 203 inches long, 76.2 inches wide, and riding on a nearly 113-inch wheelbase. If you were wondering, as was I: The Taurus is smaller than the late Crown Vic. The Taurus is also hefty, with a curb weight of 4,368 pounds. Returning for 2010 is the SHO model. Flip open the hood and you will find not a Yamaha-inspired V6 as in the earlier SHO model, but a For
We showed you the reborn 2010 Ford Taurus SHO early this morning. Now it’s debuted here in Chicago. Also, the power chart has debuted. Consider our fragile little minds blown. The new SHO gets a 365 HP, 350 lb-ft twin turbocharged V6, all-wheel-drive, a slick, rev-matching, gear-holding paddle-shifted automatic transmission and very subtle visual modifications. In fact, you can read all the details in our earlier Taurus SHO post. What we didn’t have at the time was the above horsepower and torque curves for the EcoBoost in the Taurus SHO. The phrase “a flat torque curve” is very often tossed around willy-nilly, but the graph Ford has provided us is so ridiculous it practically defies reason.
