TAURUS: Electronic stability control is now standard on all Tauruses, as is the SOS Post Crash Alert System, which unlock the doors, turns on the flashers and honks the horn after an airbag deployment. A new SE base model joins the SEL and Limited models. An all-new version of the Taurus, with Ford's direct-injection turbocharged EcoBoost engine, is coming in mid-2009 as a 2010 model. Spy photos leaked onto the Internet showed a car with radical lines similar to those seen on the Ford Mondeo.
TAURUS X: Gains a new SOS Post Crash Alert System (see TAURUS, above).
TRANSIT CONNECT: The Transit Connect is typical of the car-based vans that crawl the streets of Europe; indeed, the Transit Connect is being pulled directly from Ford of Europe's lineup, and it should arrive in the US in mid-2009, probably as a 2010 model. The US version will be powered by a 2.0 liter four-cylinder gasoline engine coupled to an automatic transmission.
RUMORED:
NEW EUROPEAN-SOURCED SOMETHING-OR-OTHER: A vehicle which Ford says "will be a 'whitespace' entry in North America" (meaning we don't have anything like it) will be plucked from the European lineup for 2010. No word on what it is, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the S-MAX.
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