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The end of an era

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  • #2
    johndaman66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,099 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    About time they put the lid on this one


  • #3
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    About time they put the lid on this one

    I don't know of any other car still on the road in the western world with a seperate chassis


  • #4
    Ardiff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭Ardiff


    When did they start making these ?


  • #5
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    The platform began service way back in 1979 :eek:


  • #6
    Ardiff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭Ardiff


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    The platform began service way back in 1979 :eek:

    Older than me..!! :eek:


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  • #7
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    The Taurus and Lincoln MKS that have replaced them are lovely things:

    2010-ford-taurus-sho_100194427_m.jpg

    2010-lincoln-mks-3.7l-awd-pic-21277.jpeg

    The interesting thing is that both of the above cars can trace their roots back to the 1998 Volvo S80.


  • #8
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    VolvoMan wrote: »

    The interesting thing is that both of the above cars can trace their roots back to the 1998 Volvo S80.

    And neither has RWD or a nice big gruff V8 in front because of that lineage


  • #9
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    And neither has RWD or a nice big gruff V8 in front because of that lineage

    True that. Although it would have been possible to fit the Yamaha V8 that recently saw service in the Mk2 S80.


  • #10
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    I don't know of any other car still on the road in the western world with a seperate chassis

    Morgan?


  • #11
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Massive things inside.. Taxi driver in Chicago took 8 of us in one...


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  • #12
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    neilthefunkeone wrote: »
    Massive things inside.. Taxi driver in Chicago took 8 of us in one...

    That sounds perfectly safe............


  • #13
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    So now they are only 13 years behind Europe with their brand new car, instead of over 30 years?


  • #14
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    All the hate aside, its sort of sad :(


    I had to lough at 1955 first one ever made: 6 seater coupe lol


  • #15
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    neilthefunkeone wrote: »
    Massive things inside.. Taxi driver in Chicago took 8 of us in one...

    8 Irish.. 4 Americans :D


  • #16
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    neilthefunkeone wrote: »
    Massive things inside.. Taxi driver in Chicago took 8 of us in one...

    I think it was 10 neil, good times :)


  • #17
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    That Taurus looks like an Accord


  • #18
    S Line
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭S Line


    Science fiction becomes science fact!!

    The cop cars in Robocop were FWD monocoque Ford Taurus’s.

    Look at the future that that film predicted - monocoque FWD cop cars, society gone to sh1t, the rich getting richer & the poor left to fend from themselves.

    Glad that’s not how it turned out!!!!!!!!!


  • #19
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    VolvoMan wrote: »
    The Taurus and Lincoln MKS that have replaced them are lovely things:

    2010-ford-taurus-sho_100194427_m.jpg



    No actually. Ford decided that the new Taurus wasn't ugly so here the new look. Whoever made this decision should be shot.

    01-2013-ford-taurus-sho-live-opt.jpg


  • #20
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »

    01-2013-ford-taurus-sho-live-opt.jpg

    For any of ye who wanted to know what would happen if a Mondeo got up on a Mustang.....

    There you go !


  • #21
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    I don't know of any other car still on the road in the western world with a seperate chassis

    Landcruisers, Range Rovers, Land Rovers?


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  • #22
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    neilthefunkeone wrote: »
    Massive things inside.. Taxi driver in Chicago took 8 of us in one...

    ?

    The Crown Vic taxi has to be the most cramped back seat known to man! So little leg space for the size of the yoke.


  • #23
    njburke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭njburke


    ah, but the back seat of a black and white is whole different level of comfort.


  • #24
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    alastair wrote: »
    .. Range Rovers ..

    ..nope , not since 2002.


  • #25
    Yawlboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Yawlboy


    Range Rover Sport and Discovery 4 both have 2 chassis


  • #26
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    alastair wrote: »
    ?

    The Crown Vic taxi has to be the most cramped back seat known to man! So little leg space for the size of the yoke.

    THat was the mystery of the car; not so much that it had to have a cramped back seat so much as it depended on where the driver spec'd the panel separating him from the passenger. I have regularly had 5 cabs a day in New YOrk and think that it was 3-2 on too small versus just enough (I'm 6'5"). Couldn't see any correlation either between driver's size and the rear room space. Bizarre.


  • #27
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    alastair wrote: »
    Landcruisers, Range Rovers, Land Rovers?
    None of them are cars though are they ;)

    To be clear for those of hard hearing I don't believe there is any mainstream cars left being produced in the Western world with a separate chassis.

    Someone pointed out Morgan earlier as a car and yes you are correct but it's hardly mainstream is it?


  • #28
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    No actually. Ford decided that the new Taurus wasn't ugly so here the new look. Whoever made this decision should be shot.

    Couldn't agree more.

    I thought the original design was lovely, but they've ruined it now with that facelift.


  • #29
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    damn americans making me cry like a big gurl.


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