Actually, Ford initially made the Taurus SHO automatic available in the earlier body so they could capture more market share. This was b/c too few people knew how to drive a manual (or found it beneath them to have to shift gears) AND the manual transmission rivaled my HD trans for gear rattle!!
The newest body SHO is a whole other story - Ford wanted to "Americanize" the Taurus so they made it 1) heavy, 2) ugly and 3) gadget laden. No heavy, ugly, gadget laden American car would insult it's driver by making him/her change gears manually. --- Scott Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I know that Ford made this decision as well from the older > body style > to the newer body style of SHO's. The older ones were (I believe) > only > available while the newer ones were available only in automatic. > When I > enquired about this change they swore that the automatic could out > perform > and out shift any humans ability to shift gears. Although I doubt > that is > true, it could be possible that an automatic has the ability to > drive > better. Also, the newer V8 SHO was kinda based toward old ladies > in my > eyes. And eveyone konws their maws don't want to shift at all. ===== Matthew __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
