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Engine Problem Angers Once-Happy Ford Taurus SHO Owners.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002
By Jeffrey McCracken, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 24--Carter Fujibayashi saw his Taurus SHO and it was "love at first sight."
Now, $7,824.84 in repair bills later, he congratulates himself for convincing his boss to buy Subarus and not Fords for their company fleet.
Mary Hansen and her husband, Raymond, of Gillette, Wyo. said they felt like "kids in toyland" driving their 1996 SHO off the used-car lot in June. It died two weeks later heading down the Bighorn mountains in Wyoming and now sits in their yard, the Hansens unwilling and unable to pay the $15,573 repair bill.
They are part of an angry, vocal and growing group of SHO owners reporting or worried about an engine problem with the 1996-99...
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