Ford Taurus SHO, one of America's admired "sleeper" achievement cars, allotment to the Ford lineup, powered by a Super High Output (SHO) EcoBoost accompanying turbocharged engine. The Taurus SHO joins Ford's growing calendar of achievement cartage for the 2010 archetypal year, architecture on the bequest of the original, which becoming a atom on the Car and Driver 10 Best account four years running.
"The new Ford Taurus SHO delivers on the accurate sleeper auto blueprint but adds all-new luxury-appointments, accessibility appearance and technologies to an incomparable antithesis of ability and ammunition economy," said Mark Fields, Ford's admiral of The Americas. "This new action acquired answers enthusiasts' calls for a exceptional Ford flagship auto with alike added attitude."
Introduced in 1989, Ford Taurus SHO was conceived as a alert performance-oriented sports sedan, alluringly ill-fitted to the automotive enthusiast defective the allowance and adequacy of a four-door full-size car. Produced through 1999, added than 100,000 were sold.
The aboriginal Ford Taurus SHO generated a loyal afterward of owners and enthusiasts, with an alive club added than 1,000 associates strong, an online appointment with added than 10,000 registered users and a Web armpit (bringbackthesho.com) accurately adherent to acceptable Ford to disclose the SHO. The 2010 Ford Taurus artefact development aggregation spent cogent time alert to SHO enthusiasts.
The foundation of the new 2010 Taurus SHO is a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 engine. This advanced powerplant generates an estimated 365 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and 350 ft.-lbs. of torque at 3,500 rpm, resulting in significantly improved power, torque and fuel economy compared with larger, normally aspirated engines. This also is Ford's most powerful EcoBoost engine.
A key feature of this EcoBoost engine is gasoline direct injection. The direct injection of fuel into the cylinder during the intake stroke, as opposed to port-style injection to an externally mounted intake, produces a well-mixed air-fuel charge. Fuel vaporization during the intake stroke cools the incoming air, improving volumetric efficiency and lowers the likelihood of knock.
The results are improved throttle response, reduced cold start emissions characteristics and improved fuel economy. The cooled charge enables an increased compression ratio, improving efficiency at partial load, while the higher compression ratio allows for better volumetric efficiency under full load engine behavior. Customers will experience normally aspirated V-8 power, without compromising V-6 fuel economy.
The 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 also uses twin turbochargers, as opposed to a single unit. The reduced size of each turbocharger results in reduced internal inertia, allowing this advanced engine to avoid the "turbo lag" often prevalent in earlier-generation turbocharged applications. From the driver's seat, the rewarding result is linear power delivery across a broad torque band from 1,500 through 5,500 rpm. Peak torque building quickly off idle ensures responsive acceleration from a standing start.
