Equipment
VIN 1FABP54YXKA165994 182/220hp Yamaha-built V-6, 5-sleed, alloy wheels, power windows, air conditioning, factory cassette, Marti Report documented, owner''s manuals, books.
Condition
From the Waterford collection. First year for Ford’s BMW fighter, and represented as a two-owner California car from new with 47,000 miles. Impressive original paint with no major flaws or fading. A few scuffs on the wheels. Clean trim and weather stripping. Appears tidy and maintained underneath. Negligible wrinkling to the leather. Recently detailed and gorgeous (at least as gorgeous as a Ford Taurus can be) considering the age, mileage, and relatively low value of these cars.
Market commentary
One of the fastest four-doors in the world when it was new, the Taurus SHO (Super High Output) was the result of an unusual fling between Ford and Yamaha, and targeted the kind of driver who had Mustang dreams but lived more of a minivan lifestyle. Indeed, the SHO came with just 5hp less than a Mustang 5.0 GT of the same year and had nearly as high a top speed (143 mph) as a BMW 535i, which cost twice as much. Up until recently, early SHOs were four-figure cars all day, and although their values have shot up among the Radwood crowd in recent years, they’re still not exactly expensive. This one sold for $12,600 last October on Bring a Trailer, where cars like this tend to shine. And this result in Indy can be considered top of the market.