Ford Taurus X?

[Whelan]

So apparently the Ford Freestyle is being rebadges as well???Ford really needs good swift kick in the ***!

[Kamikaze]

Yeah, I was kind of wondering why would they just re-name / re-badge this... I saw a Tauras commercial the other day... looked a lot like the Ford Five Hundred...oh well, I don't think the name is going to make it anymore popular.

[northvibe]

500 = tauruswell the freestyle isnt selling as well as they hoped, i think its cuz the price tag, but it was rumored to be moved to mercury...i guess not.

[Whelan]

Yeah the old 500 and Mercury Montego I think it was called, were replaced with the nameplates Taurus and Sable of old. Why start calling the Freestyle the Taurus X is still beyond me, despite sales. The name of the car is not the problem. The problem lies here.You offer the 500/Taurus/Sable/Montego as a bland large sedan that is supposed to be a larger car like the Maxima and 300. But yet you offer nothing fun. It is blah. The 300 gives you a nice V8 option, the Maxima has a slick 3.5L V6 with nice hp. You give us a ho hum daily cruiser with no special options.The Freestyle is nothing more than a lowered and chopped Explorer. It needed an update like this, which is slightly better, but for the market...wait...what is the market? I assume people who want an SUV size but in more of a wagon shape. Which would lead me to believe the Freestyle/Taurus X is the distant cousin sibling of the old Country Squire wagons back in the day. Either way Ford missed the mark, and continues to do so. Mercury's and Fords always looked waaay to similar, same goes for Lincoln. Having 3 brands one a little more upscale from the other is not going to cut it. They should have turned Mercury into more of a performance division like Pontiac is to GM, and done a heck of a lot more with Lincoln than just rebadge Ford cars literally without redoing the sheet metal. Ford...What a joke!

[ramenboy...]

freestyle/taurus X = boringif i had to get a ford suv, i'd go for the edge...its growing on me

[MRCN RCE]

my god, that is disgusting.i'd really like to meet the guy who was shavin his face with a mach 3 one day before work n said "hey, i can use this for a grille!!!" maybe i'll run his wrists across it n see what happens.

[AZViking]

Ok, from what i understand, Ford thought they had a winner when they introduced the Five Hundred. But, what they didn't expect was the 300/Magnum/Charger that came out at about the same time. Why buy an underpowered FWD V6 when you could get a RWD Hemi V8 in a car about the same size and a wilder design? Also, I've read that the name Five Hundred was part of a naming strategy by Ford to have all "F" named cars. (Windstar became Freestar, Freestyle, Fusion, etc.) Apparently, the Edge means they're leaving that plan. (It would have been funny to change the Mustang back to the Falcon it was designed from back in 1963)Will calling the car Taurus sell more cars? We'll see I guess. I thought it was funny when Lincoln renamed the Zephyr the MKZ after they were already selling it as the Zephyr. I just read in Newsweek yesterday that there are only a few hundred new Crown Vics on dealership lots this year. There's a car Ford won't let die.