| 68style | 01-03-2016 02:22 PM |
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Originally Posted by GS8
(Post 8713227)
That SHO is one hell of a car. The 89 is considered the 'holy grail' of the entire line.
Top speed of 140mph in a $33,400 car (adjusted for inflation) is pretty impressive. I still kind of want a SHO but the maintenance (or lack thereof) scares me.
That said, this car is still priced too high. Restored or not, that odo is high. If the car was all original with half the clicks, MAYBE it might be worth $6k but as it stands, no. The California plates don't help the ad's case... 1989 Ford Taurus SHO Road Test ? Review ? Car and Driver
Ironically, the weakest part of the car is the manual transmission
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I used to be super active on SHOforums and I have to disagree, I think the 94 and 95 are the most desirable in 5spd with the paint-matched door handles and spoiler (unlike 92 and 93 which had black door handles and usually no spoiler)... hard to find because of the influx of automatics in the 2nd gens, fewest numbers and much preferred styling over the 89-91 years... rare colours like Opal Mineral Frost and the blue I can't remember the name of... mine was a red 94 with full grey leather and 5spd, which was super rare... most manuals had half cloth and half leather.
The transmission was a piece of shit on that car... totally ruined it... MTX-IV Mazda unit I believe it was... but the real killer was the french sourced Valeo clutch... ugh... try getting a decent launch with that thing. What a wonderful engine though, the sound of those secondaries opening up past 4,000RPM and the way the front of the car lifted when they did was pretty awesome, pulled hard all the way to 7,000 effortlessly. Interesting to read up on those Yamaha engines if you have a chance, they were actually seriously detuned after Yamaha developed them because they were afraid it would outrun the Mustang's V8... original prototypes were over 300hp.
I actually bought an engine on its own after I sold the car intending to find something to swap it into... but after a few years gave up and sold it to my friend who grenaded his SHO engine... sigh... would still like to get one and put it in something some day. That engine is super tall though, so tough to find something for it. The SHOtus Lotus Esprit comes to mind but already been done... was thinking about my dad's 74 Capri but he has collector's plates on it now so that's a no go hahaha | 