1989 Ford Taurus SHO - Archived Instrumented Test - Car and Driver (blog)
Breakthrough cars—cars that completely rewrite the rules by which other automobiles are judged—appear but a few times a decade. The 1964 Ford Mustang was a breakthrough car, providing a combination of sexy styling and low price that no competitor could match. Welcome the latest automotive breakthrough: the 1989 Ford Taurus SHO. The Taurus SHO earns its spot in the breakthrough brigade for one reason: it turns the high-performance four-door-sedan class on its head. Then you should know that no sedan in the under-$20,000 price range can touch the SHO's sizzling performance. In fact, the only production four-door sedans faster or quicker than the SHO are BMW's $71,000 750iL and $51,000 M5. The SHO outperforms such premium-priced performance sedans as Mercedes' 300E and 560SEL, the Audi 200 Turbo, and the Saab 9000 Turbo. The only cars of any kind that can approach the SHO's combination of low price and high performance are the Mustang GT, the Camaro IROC-Z , and the new Diamond-Star twins. In their highest-performance forms, all four cars are slightly quicker and less expensive than. Source: www.caranddriver.com
