When was the last time you really thought about the Ford Edge? Ford's mid-sized crossover wasn't meant to make waves, it was ...

So smitten were we by the performance-envelope enlargement a rev-happy twin-cam Yamaha V-6 engine and starchy suspenders provided that we actually described the Taurus SHO as "America's BMW." ...

The Ford Taurus SHO is a prime example of this ... So how exactly did Ford manage to make the first-gen car so fast? The answer is it didn't, at least not without some help.

The original Taurus was a huge deal for Ford ... In fact, trying to find one for sale will just pull up listings of first-gen SHOs. But hey, at least they tried.

If there was anything wrong with the first SHO Taurus ... in even the modest numbers Ford had hoped for. It's a risky wager, but we bet the new Ford Taurus SHO does not suffer the same fate.

An SHO was a total sleeper, especially when you remember how popular the first two generations of the Ford Taurus ... that's what the Taurus needed. Although, to be fair to the third-gen Taurus ...

In the early-1980s, Ford was secretly developing a mid-engine ... to better accommodate a new automatic transmission (the first-gen SHO was manual transmission only). Due to milder tuning, the ...