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And with how complicated they’ve become. Pretty much all for the sake of MPG. Although frankly I think we crossed a turning point with the trend towards turbos in everything. A more powerful v6 or v8 is going to be more durable on average than a smaller and more complicated engine trying to eak out performance.

Youll see 20 or 30 year old crown vics. I dont think youll see any turbo charged 2023 Tauruses in 20 years.

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> Youll see 20 or 30 year old crown vics. I dont think youll see any turbo charged 2023 Tauruses in 20 years.

The Ford Taurus went out of production in 2019, so surely you won’t see any 23 models now or twenty years from now.

Turbo charged cars typically don’t last long because turbo charging is a harsh process. That being said, I don’t think the Taurus was the kind of car that would be turbo charged.

Turbos are everywhere. My Honda CRV has a turbo. Ford puts turbos on so many of their engines, and indeed, for several of the model years before it was discontinued, the Taurus had a turbocharged engine.

I'd say more complexity has been added for the sake of perceived safety and convenience. Sure a lot of complexity was added for efficiency but there no reason the entire car down to the turn signals needs to operate on a databus with a single point of failure who's replacement averages 10% of the price of the car.

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