If Wert wants to haul anything off to New Jersey, be they closet doors, furniture or the bodies of competing bloggers, he'll have to pick a new family truckster to do the deed. We've learned the 2009 model year should be the last for Ford's name-changing razor-bladed wagon. Taurus X, we hardly knew ya.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally recently said a redesign of the Taurus sedan will happen much sooner than originally planned. By sometime next year, Mulally said the next generation of the Taurus will move away from "Homer Simpson" and be more like what Ford "should have made originally." We've now learned from supplier sources that the wagon variant will not be part of this quick redesign. More importantly, sales of the Taurus X should cease within 14-18 months. We think this means the 2009 model year will be the last for the Ford once known as Freestyle. However, we won't be totally shocked if we end up getting a partial 2010 model year as the build-out of the Taurus X concludes.
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