Spy Shots:2010 Ford Taurus SHO spotted without camo!

Thanks to our friends at BringBackTheSHO.com, we now have more evidence than ever that the SHO will rise again. These spy shots show a pair of serious looking Taurus sedans snapped along the I-75 corridor in Michigan (the greenish grass and lack of snow suggest they weren't taken recently). These two sedans are different from the Limited and SES models we saw at the Detroit Auto Show last week, wearing new wheels (at least 19 or 20 inches in diameter), a decklid spoiler, different tail-lights and a new rear bumper that extends lower over a pair of dual tail-pipes. There's also a conspicuous looking badge on the rear end that's covered with camo tape. What could it be? Who knows for SHO?
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Agent63 - 1/19/2009 12:45:58 PM

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One of the best fords to have come out in years.

neutral - 1/19/2009 2:00:23 PM

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Got that right. If only Chrysler would produce the 200C with a standard Gas engine and GM would keep updating the Malibu (make Navigation available, direct inject all engines) then Americans would be stupid to buy Camry/Accord. Unfortunately, Accord is a damn good car.... as much as I hate it, competition leads to better products.... (what I hate is that the competition has to be foreign tho!!).

commander104 - 1/19/2009 11:15:27 PM

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foreign? Isn't the Honda factory in North America?

neutral - 1/20/2009 10:01:00 AM

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commander104,

The argument that the transplant Japanese/Koreans make "American" cars is just BS that the anit-Detroit crowd rants about just to discredit Detroit. Honda also has factories in China, England and Canada. Does that make Honda Chinese/English/Canadian? Where do you draw the line? GM has factories in China/Korea/Mexico/Canada/etc? Does that mean GM is Chinese/Korean/Mexican/Canadian? I'll give you an answer, no.

bmwMotorsport - 1/19/2009 2:00:07 PM

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looks good, definitely one of my top 5 favorite American cars.

marinaside1199 - 1/19/2009 2:04:15 PM

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looks like the old TL...

Anthony - 1/19/2009 4:38:46 PM

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That was my first impression as well. But hey, for Ford it is a definite step up.

stevenv1999 - 1/19/2009 3:08:15 PM

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I like the details but the car looks like it is fat and overweight. In other words the high beltline looks bad.

commander104 - 1/19/2009 11:17:48 PM

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the Beltline?! come on four rings, it's not any different than the A8's beltline.

Airliner - 1/19/2009 3:14:39 PM

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Um, why not a Fusion SHO. "I could see me drivin' one of them fo' SHO!!"

Porschinator - 1/19/2009 8:09:46 PM

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Car looks good to me and def has Honda influence. Ford and GM finally waking up!

S4cabriofoxone - 1/19/2009 10:32:29 PM

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The beltline is too high but it still looks excellent. It has an air of substance and true style that the old Taurus/500 really lacked. Probably the best US market Ford of the twenty-first century, aside from the GT of course.

indoctrin8ed - 1/20/2009 6:51:36 AM

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This is a copy paste of various other cars -- like a Lexus LX, Aucra TL and gills from who knows where...

LauderdaleDriver - 1/22/2009 1:09:03 AM

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Everybody steals designs, from time to time. Audi (then DKW) made a dead ringer for a 55 t bird in the sixties. Toyota totally ripped of the Volvo 1800ES (corolla liftback) in the 80s. Cadillac ripped off Rolls with the first Seville, and the first Lexus cars were such flagrant copies of the E class that you could confuse them in a parking lot, from the rear.

Audi is probably the current style leader........ But there are lots of good looking cars out there.

tango - 1/20/2009 11:29:49 PM

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I say Ford's gotta bring that output up closer to 400 if not that. The SHO has historically never had an engine shared with any other Ford product. Sticking to that formula would yield some very good results. Lose the fender vents unless they actually do vent away heat from the engine bay, or a means for cool air to flow through the intercoolers.

PintoRacer - 1/21/2009 5:11:10 AM

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Those front lights definitely do look like the TL's. The rear is ugly like all of Ford's American models. And it looks like a blimp.

Veeracer - 1/23/2009 10:26:56 AM

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Hey 1UAW,
So you know all of the financial inner workings of Honda? Going with your simple minded thinking, Brazil should be anti GM considering how many Chevys are sold there with all of the net profits going back to America. Every large automaker has a global presence and runs the company accordingly.

Lexluther - 1/27/2009 12:02:39 PM

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Very Nice! I would drive it! It looks like a Acura TL and the Hyundai Sonata from a couple years back.