In the 18 months I had my 1994 I replaced all of the struts, the power steering pump, the water pump, the harmonic balancer, the oil pan gasket 3 times, the EGR valve, the valve cover gaskets, the radiator, all of the coolant hoses, the speed sensor, the starter, both of the rear bushings for the control arms, and…

yep I owned a 99 Taurus Wagon. Things would just break for no rhyme of reason on it.

You are right, those cars were death traps when new. My brother in law had one that lost a transmission under 50k miles into service. My best friend had one and he had nightmares that it was going to kill him. The thing wallowed around like a floppy fish and made my 91 Blazer feel like it had good road manners. Every…

never been. i hear it’s full of crotchety old people and ‘florida man’ which is reason enough to stay away.

We had a 96 Taurus wagon and a 96 Sable sedan. The Taurus blew two head gaskets before 130k, and the Sable caught fire at 125k. Fuck these cars.

Well a 92 SHO’ is almost completely different mechanically than a GL and also a much more desirable car that’s worth keeping.

I owned a 1994 Ford Taurus as my first car. Learn from my experience....Do not buy a 1986-1995 Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable under any circumstances. They are very poorly made cars that were not engineered to last more than 100,000 miles or so. This particular example also has the head gasket eating 3.8 Essex V6. Not…

I dunno. The Coastal Carolina Regional Airport is pretty strip mallish.

Just looked it up and I have to say it’s the first airport I’ve seen that could be easily mistaken for a Kroeger!

I’m sure the one customs guy at the airport was totally prepared for an entire A380 full of international arrival passengers.

Skycrane disagrees.

I hope Sunbelt Rental has a good insurance policy.

Talk about a sunk cost...

Well, backhoe didn’t work. Call in the Huey.

I guess he will be literally and figuratively under water on this loan as well.

Bros before backhoes.

bro does bro thing in bro truck with bro and then does bro things with a back-ho and out bros all the bros, bro

He’s probably only got another 82 payments on that truck. No big deal.

Damn good point. But a bad decision for an “upmarket” company.

I was at the term sheet to buy one. I asked to take it for a longer test drive they said sure. I have never been happier to have taken a dealer up on a sales tactic. The car has horrible seats. So bad that I said nope I am out I can not endure that. I was ready to hand them cash money to take the little thing home. I…