I purchased this vehicle for my son's 19th birthday, it was sold to me for $4,400 in late April 2014. As a single mother, & a veteran this was a large purchase for me and I spent days and hours researching the best car for safety, comfort (my son is 6'2"), reliability, easy and inexpensive maintenance, and a vehicle that would serve him for many years & miles if he chose to keep & not have a car pmt every month.

I came up with the cash for this car by re-financing my VA loan on my home. As I said, it was a very big deal to be able to do this for my son. I picked the 2007 Ford Taurus as it is a newer model with (going by hundreds of reviews) the ability to easily go 2-300,000 miles. Fair gas mileage. A comfortable size for my son, and many safety features, the most obvious that it's not a "tiny" car, no offense to "tiny" cars I've owned my share, but this is for my teenage son.

About one month & very few miles, a leak was noticed on the driveway. I had my son take it to my trusted mechanic for a "look-see" and he came back with an estimate for $5220.88. New transmission and a/c.

I was & am crushed. the repairs this car needs cost more than I paid for the vehicle, how can that be? My son is back to either leaving 2hrs prior to his scheduled work shift so he can catch the bus, & trying to catch a ride home as the busses don't run after the restaurant closes. I feel horrible for him. I have the car sitting outside of my house praying that there will be a recall or class action suit on these Ford Taurus cars.

Coming back from vacation and out of no where my Tachometer raised to 5,000RPM and vehicle slowing down. Also heard a grinding noise whenever the engine was running. No Check Engine lights, or any other warnings, the transmission just stopped transmitting power. What happens is that the splines on the torque converter and the input shaft strip each other out and metal ends up circulating inside of the valve body and through the fluid.

Ford needs to recognize that there is a major defect in their designs and help us that have been having to put up with this unavoidable issue with all Taurus designed vehicle. There needs to be a suit brought against Ford for their mistake. The car was towed to the transmission shop and 7 days later and $2140.00 less I was driving the Ford Taurus home. Talking to others with the Ford Taurus having same problem with transmission. I was also told that Ford Motor Company was reimbursing up to $1400 on transmission blow outs. Anybody out there know where to file for this reimbursement please share it with us.

When it rains it pours.....downpours.....trying to save up money for a wedding and the transmission on my fiance's car just quit working. she was just cruising down the road and from what she says all of a sudden she had nothing. no gears at all. when I picked her up sure enough there was nothing coming from the transmission at all no shifting sounds, no squealing, and yeah there was a nice burnt smell. screw this I think she is still paying it off. when she does she is getting every thing she can for it and getting a Dodge