Originally posted by gdub520:
anyway 3rd dealer i stopped at (mercury) had no svt or even mystiques but did have a very clean 97 taurus sho sorta a maroon/rust colored red, loaded but only had cloth interior which is fine with me i hate leather....sticker price 14,222...took for a test drive and......yuck...those things are annoyingly loud...my older car with almost 2ce the mileage is quieter and i have that loud ass filter....power was nice tho when i stepped on the gas but the car is sooooo big and the steering too light, the wheel too small for a mans hands, etc...the car seemed to have had a good life overall but that v8 seemed raggedy and like it would indeed be prone to breaking down...i could just imagine twirling off a cam sprocket while i was gunnning it on the freeway
My brother picked up a 97 SHO last Fall with 82k miles for $6500. $14k is way to much FWIW. I drove it once and felt it would be exactly what I expected my SVT to feel like at 80k miles, a loud rattletrap. But the motor pulls
hard over 4000rpm.
