lol…they should think about it before it happened. lol.

Leaky diapers ?

On the other hand, maybe it’s all a controlled leak to generate excitement for Ford products until the good stuff comes late next year?

(psst, who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theorist?)

riiiight thats how it happend

I hate TYCtoW Day. All those effing little brats running around being annoying ****s. It’s bad enough having to put up with the god-foresaken idiot parents who are too stupid to know how to use a rubber, much less the unruly progeny of their stupidity.

Classy Mayor, classy What was your campaign slogan I eat babyskin ?

Beats pork rinds.

Agreed mayer_ray: most of us can barely tolerate half the assholes we work with, so why the f*ck would we want anything to do with their demon spawn.

mayer_ray_nagin, I can arrange with NYC rabbis to send you some tasty treats. Those treats will expands if you eat them gently .

Oh well, thanks for the heads up, kid.

‘mayer’, I agree wholeheartedly.

Aha, just as I suspected all along, Ford is anti-family and anti-children….

No their not anti-family but you don’t let kids with cell phones in the design area to snap off pictures.
You know temptation. And of course kids are always trying their limits. They should for three of four years now. No Cell Phone and no Night time or weekend minutes either. Besides the Taurus needs some more work. I think that is what they are decidedly against the photo shoot

YEA THOSE DAMN 5 YEARS OLD WITH THEIR CAMERA PHONES

wonder if priddy has kids?

I have reconsidered my opinion on the 2010. If this child cellphone snap shot is the new 2010 Taurus then Ford still has’nt gone far enough. Its too big it essentially the same car-Ford 500 , but with a really good redone front end. I don’t see the point? I hope does not leave it on the market long.
I don’t know maybe people will like it enough to lift sales a little. I think this stems too far from what the Taurus was originally a midsized car not a BOAT! Its a good facelift and that’s about it but its the same damn car.

Ford get it right within 2 years after that k. I’ll look for it in 2012. Did anyone see the Roewe 550 I mean the Chinese are making great cars too. So Ford, GM, and Chyrsler, Honda and Toyota ya better make em look that good for $10K and have a 300,000 mile/ 20 year power train warranty. All I can say is Ford you had it right the first time you intro the Taurus back in 85 now whatever you’ve done its like you’ve taken stupid pills or something lmao

same kind of pills GM has been eating for years. But its like GM stopped eating them and threw em in the trash and now Ford went dumpster diving for GM’s stupid pills and can’t seem to get enough of em.

Stop with the bias in the story. “Its unlikely alternate accomidations will be made”…how the **** can you be sure Ford is not helping the parents out?? Any news like this is good news for Ford. Look at the new Taurus coming out story I see in this story. But the anti-Ford journalism has to stop sometime LLN!! Keep the editorial to fair and balenced…thats the game. Otherwise its all yellow.

oh i am sure car makers of the world are lamenting their inability to get their hands on ford’s hottest design. whoever penned the current (US) taurus, (US) focus, and the umpteenth mustang special edition must be ford’s greatest asset.

sheesh ford wake up! your offering is subpar for the domestic market and you know it. GM at least showed some effort improving their offering. if ford keeps on making the same lackluster vehicles they deserve no place in today’s competitive marketplace.

Well, how old was the child? Look at the camera angle (I suspect the picture to be taken from a mobile phone camera because of resolution and movement; it looks like they were walking by when they shot it). This was was fairly tall child. Hmmmm…

FordTaurusForever,

Not to come down on you, but have you really paid any attention to teh FORD FiveHundred/Taurus. It is not big enough to call and boat. Besides, Large FF sedans are, sadly not unheard of in American the CHEVY Impala (Still a huge waste of a great name plate), and the now discontinued CHRYSLER LH cars, have all been successful in this area. More so than any Foreign mark, Recall the TOYOTA Avalon? Never worked at all.

FORD has expressed it’s mid-size intent with the Fusion. The Taurus moves up one size slot, where it likely would have gone anyway with the trend to up-size cars over time.

The Point of the redesign is because, to be blunt, the current car is so ugly and cheap looking, despite being a very good car, that it should almost be a crime. This redress is quite radical but is not the same evolutionary trend the Taurus had gone through. Maybe the 2012 model will be. Maybe not.

But FORD has to deal with what it has right now. Dropping lines like “Make it look more like a Taurus is likely lost on FORD, but maybe not.

I, for one, would like to see a new Taurus that looked like it was the actual descendant of the last “real” Taurus and not a badly watered down variation of their very cool “kinetic” styling. It looks like a strange hybrid of competing style themes.

Fortunately for them, this car seems better looking than anything in their lineup currently. Bland, but nice.

Well Blakkarr its just that I have a feeling I’m gonna be Disappointed once again by Ford’s true lack of real effort in 2010 Taurus is all.

I agree some change is better in the Taurus than none at all, but if Ford has a shot at regaining the market they can’t do it
on retard face lifts or fake chrome three bar grills. I want Substance. The Kinetic design Blakkarr is a good start for Ford, But Zeesh Ford get a clue. Use some Better Technology is the answer not looking for the cheapest materials.

One last note Supersizing cars is kind of the thing of the past. Sure the Accord and Camry have grown but not nearly as fast as the Taurus. Shrink that SOB (the Taurus) use better technology not making the Taurus any larger than its become reverse the process!!!!

When I was 5 I wasn’t even allowed to use the phone. WTF does this kid have his own camera phone??? Parents these days just don’t give a f*ck.

FordTaurusForever,

I can not fault your feelings. I’m not holding out much hope for FORD until they take the hint and back well away from Trucks and SUVs and focus as strongly, or more so, as they have on said trucks and SUVs.

To think if FORD put half as much effort into the Taurus and Mustang as they do in the F-150, Camry and Accord would be playing catch up like their lives depended on it.

The redress looks good and well thought out. I’m also amazed that it is coming so soon. But then, maybe they are starting to take that hint very seriously.

As for the size. That isn’t going to happen without killing the Fusion. But going bigger doesn’t absolve the car or the company from doing a better job. I agree that more and better tech needs to be used. FORD also needs to learn to make a bigger deal about the tech they are putting in the cars. Of course, it would be nice if they did put better tech to crow about in their cars.

FORD needs to take the same position they did in the “Truck wars” and this is to make the competition scrap and struggle for every little perceived advantage. FORD can and has put out cars that beat the “Invincibles” of world as if they always could. I just wish that didn’t need a slap in the face to go do it.

FORD lacks passion and drive. It shows in their products and the condition of their company.

Blakkarr you like read my mind or something, but I could’nt have said it better myself. Ford has some premis for doing things slowly and not effective.

I just hope the Ford kids stay out of the developing of cars. Everything they touch turns to S*** it seems. I’ll say this at least Bill Ford realized his limitations after taking the helm and finding out first hand that just because he’s gene related to his great grandfather does not mean he’s supernaturally going to make the right decision for his GGF company. I am happy that he realized he needed to make a change and give Allan Mulally a go even though he knows more of how to put a 747 together rather than a car.

One comment to afflcition. Listen the cat is so far out of the bag right now with trying to limit what your kids see an experience its not even funny. I too was not priviledged to use the phone till I got much older. lol These kids today see and do so much more than any of us did. Unfortunately some is bad other parts of it are good for learning. But it has to be structured learning that parents give them.

FordTaurusForever,

On Alan Mulally, I think Alan might see this as the same set of problems but making smaller less complex machines. But I think it will also be much easier to see results as Cars develop and sell faster than massive commercial passenger liners. He might be thrown by how fast things happen or don’t in the auto industry.

This would explain the very fast announcement and inadvertent debut of the 2010 Taurus.

Also, concerning Bill Ford, I had read that many times descendants of a company founder are very infrequently good at or even qualified to run the company their progenitors founded. While I have little doubt BIll could have been a good exec for FORD, we all see that he sucks as the head of FORD.

Great talking to you. Keep rolling.

Well, its pretty stupid to allow any non-design studio employee or family member into it. GM’s underground design studio where they design the Corvette and many other high profile cars has security similar to the CIA. No one is allowed in there except for the few dozen designers that work there - not even other GM employees.

Maybe they’re afraid the kids’ll show ‘em a thing or two!

So now it’s an “illustration we’ve based on it” LLN? I remember reading nothing about it being based off of anything else…

I’ll remember this with the rest of LLN’s illustrations, and will make sure to check other sites before citing it.

Are Ford execs brain dead? Have them check their phones at the security! Canceling the whole thing sounds too extreme! I am sure moms and dads will have no trouble confiscating cell phones.

Alternatively, have a zero-tolerant policy. If a kid gets caught with a cell phone, the responsible employee is dismissed. Designs are important intellectual propertyfor a car company and the harsh policy is justified to protect Ford’s own interest.