i 'owned' a 99 taurus se for a whole week about a yr/half ago...silverfrost...loaded as well as it could be...leather, snrf, cd changer, but no abs...beautiful car equiped with duratec...found it online at a ford dealer for one price...sticker on car was nearly 3k higher...worked up a deal for their listed price then sprung the internet price on thm...the salesman couldn't pull up the website to verify the price, but managed to do so once i got up to walk out, so grudgingly they gave me the net deal...drove it for the week and noticed one day on the freeway that the atx started to slip and then i started smelling burning tranny fluid...went home and parked the car for the rest of the day and the next couple times i drove it, no problem...
i took it the next weekend back to have the tranny checked and the brakes and they hit me with the "you need more money down" routine...i loved the car, but with it having problems right out of the box and with my kid weeks from being born i cleaned out my belongings, got a check for my downpayment back and called for a ride home
with all that rambling im trying to say i'd take another one in a heartbeat if it were in good shape...the duratec moved that car very well, much closer to what the base taurus engine should be
here they're still selling for up to 8k depending on where u look
