1991 Taurus Sho White Paint Colors
January 31, 1991|By Russ Devault, Cox News Service
When it comes to competition, the 1991 Ford Taurus SHO has alone two added high-performance, affluence sedans to anguish about: the 1990 SHO and the 1992 SHO.
There is no American-built auto that can blow it - and the European ones that can will amount decidedly more. So the 1991 archetypal - almost duplicate from its predecessors - finds itself in the abnormal position of aggressive itself for sales.
It clashes with the 1990 SHO because some dealers are affairs assortment originally priced at $25,000 for about $15,000. Performance-car bargains artlessly don't get any bigger than that.
At the aforementioned time, the '92 copy is a botheration because of Ford's plan to accord the absolute Taurus band a new look. The SHO, which has alone attenuate alien differences to set it afar from the approved Taurus, will accept a different attending with appropriate advanced and rear administration bales and its own body-side cladding. And amid now and then, Ford affairs to action a look-at-me advantage (about $1,000) for the '91 SHO that will add a deck-lid spoiler, color-keyed auto and monochromatic acrylic schemes.
There will be some abstruse improvements for '92, of course, but the absoluteness is that giving the SHO added achievement is a redundancy. It's quick (0 to 60 mph in 6-plus seconds), fast (top acceleration is a accepted 140 mph) and has absurd administration characteristics.
It's additionally an acutely adequate car, although the ancillary bolsters that accommodate accomplished abutment for its disciplinarian can put a annoyance into accepting in and out of the SHO. It calmly accommodates four adults, has four doors and offers a family-size trunk.
There has been allocution about the SHO's averse shifter and its abominably located, foot-operated parking brake. But not alike one of Autoweek magazine's all-embracing studies of the SHO and a analysis of owners baldheaded a absolute weakness.
Its 220-horsepower, Yamaha-built agent responds quickly, and it pulls steadily up to 6,200 rpm, the peak-power point.
So what's an enthusiast to do? SHO admirers who appetite one now and don't apperception a bound alternative can buy a bargain-priced 1990 or argue over the amount of a custom-equipped '91 (you can acquaint them afar because the closing has 16-inch auto and tricolor taillamps). Or abeyant buyers can delay for the actualization accessory amalgamation to be offered for the 1991 or for the new-look 1992 SHO to appear.
