Interesting article on Gen 3 Taurus development and his concept car

[GEN 3 SHO FAN]

An article published on the 04/20/2018.

It's impressive how many people can find on our car can be the ugliest one even today ! Anyway, forget about those lines and read the rest, very interesting. I never heard anything about this concept car which could have gave birth to Gen 3 Taurus...

https://jalopnik.com/an-early-design-study-for-the-ugly-1996-ford-taurus-loo-1825398744

They compare the design of our car to the one of Tesla model 3 which is great OMHA. It's proove how the design was advanced at that time and still today, even more parked between 2 SUVs...

The Synthesis 2010 (for history)

The hood shape, headlights, the underbumper mouth and the "football radio" are very similar...

Good reading,

 

[zoomlater]

Interesting, I've never heard of this concept before

 

[gamefanatic]

Personally I like how ours came out vs the concept. My buddy was studying to be an engineer at the time this car came out and had done a study of its structure. The oval design actually contributes to its rigidity. At any rate, he went over my head on most of what he said, but got me interested in the Gen3.