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The sixth-generation Ford Taurus is a full-size car that has been manufactured by Ford since June 2009.〔 As with its predecessor, the sixth-generation Taurus is a full-size four-door sedan. After an eleven-year hiatus, the Ford Taurus SHO made its return to the lineup. Sharing the D3 architecture with its predecessor, the Taurus is available in both front-wheel and all-wheel drive. While not a direct replacement for the Ford Crown Victoria or Mercury Grand Marquis, the Taurus is the largest and longest Ford-brand sedan currently sold worldwide〔(Title: Big Ford Taurus Powers Way To Top: )〕 and competes in the same price range as the preceding vehicles. The replacement for the long-running Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, named the ''Ford Police Interceptor Sedan'', derives many of its underpinnings from the Ford Taurus SHO. The Taurus, Taurus SHO, and Police Interceptor Sedan are built in Chicago, Illinois. ==Development and marketing== In late 2006, Ford Motor Company named Boeing CEO Alan Mulally to replace William Clay Ford, Jr. as its own chief executive. One of his first decisions was to abandon the unpopular "F" model naming scheme for Ford-division cars. A critic of the discontinuation of the Taurus, Mullaly designated the 2008 mid-cycle refresh of the Ford Five Hundred to be released as a re-introduced Taurus. While the redesign itself addressed several deficiencies of the Five Hundred, particularly the powertrain, it was still criticized for its handling and bland styling, with one reviewer describing it as a "SUV shaped like a sedan". In January 2008, revealing that the fifth-generation Taurus was to be replaced around the 2010 model year, Alan Mulally stated that the upcoming model was "the one we should have built originally". In April 2008, a leaked photo of a 1:1 scale design mock-up purported to be the 2010 Ford Taurus circulated on the Internet from message boards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010 Ford Taurus )〕 Ford contemplated legal action against web sites which posted the photo and Ford attorneys asked site owners to remove the photo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010 Ford Taurus, Redux )〕 Ford's USA website showed videos comparing the 2010 Ford Taurus to 2009 model year luxury sedans, including the flagships of several Japanese marques. One test showed that the Taurus' paint coat was more resistant to gravel chips than a Lexus LS460; another noted that the Taurus had a blind-spot detection sensor system that the Infiniti M45x lacked; the third showed the Taurus SHO outpacing the Audi A6 4.2 FSI quattro V8 in straight-line acceleration; the last comparison said that Taurus' cabin was quieter than an Acura RL.〔(Ford Vehicles: 2010 Taurus )〕 Sales for the sixth generation Taurus are projected to be around 50,000 to 75,000 annually, as Ford planned a lower volume to avoid steep discounts/incentives. Previous iterations of the Taurus, which were classified as midsize cars, had sold 400,000 vehicles per year at their peak in the 1990s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Taurus (sixth generation)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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