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.

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 ...

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.

Ford is the automaker that made ... Launched right after the standard Taurus, the second-generation SHO carried over the first gen's engine and transmission. Come 1993, the five-speed manual ...

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.

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 ...