the taurus had a sick ass v6

the 3.0L made by yamaha.

they also had a 3.8L which foudn it's way into my sable..

i'm pretty sure the 3.0L pushed the 89 taurus into the 15 second range-- and last i checked it made about 200ft-lbs torque and 220 horse with somewhere around a 7k redline

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for a long time the taurus SHO was considered the fastest FWD car ever made... infact it was said to be ahead of it's time-- this all from my research on the internet on WTF could be wrong with my 3.8L back about 2 years ago