Regular Car Reviews: 2002 Mercury Sable
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The Mercury Sable is good for driving to grandma's house were you can go in basement and open the closet that she doesn't want you to open. She says to stay out of the shadows. Grandma says that if you walk in shadows, you will become a "shadow man." The state took her license away last year so you can drive her car. You had to eat Taco Bell for three days straight to fart her smell out of the upholstery.
Best friend in high school had a Taurus and it looked 15 years old when it was brand new.
Sad i dont know how to +1 this comment. I found it hilarious
+Logan babcock Really? A Taurus was uncomfortable? I had a 1996 Taurus GL and it was insanely comfortable. It was a pile of shit and it went through 3 transmissions before it got totaled in a wreck, but god it was comfortable.
dude the Citro C6 is not a hot hatch(nit even clse lol) but i get what you mean
Interesting. Unfunny jokes spawn equally unfunny jokes.
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"If it ain't broke" *flashes 1911* You know the gun community too well.
What do these pills do? *spills .22LR everywhere* WHAT DO THESE PILLS DO?!
Grindstone truth
45acp is the lord's caliber
So true. These cars are being beat to shit by every weed-smoking high schooler in the nation.
tman008 so what
I mean there's a reason for it. They're reliable as hell. I wouldn't want one though. Quite happy with my Jeep.
As a weed smoking high schooler, I can back this up.
Lol, how do you know me so well?
im a teenager who doesn't smoke weed but I do beat on them but take good care of them at the same time. like I'll floor it, Toss around curves and corners and use it in fields. but then again I'm always cleaning them, checking fluids, getting the headlights clear, touching up paint Making them look good. I own a 99 SE Vulcan, 07 SEL Vulcan, and I also have a beat up 02 Sable Duratech
The Sable was the vehicle for those that saw cars as an appliance, nothing more. Acceleration with the Vulcan V6 was best described as "eventual".
I chuckled
Eh, it's actually a pretty good motor. The best way to describe the Duratec and Vulcan is this. The Duratec is a high rpm horsepower beast and the Vulcan is a Low rpm torque monster. The Vulcan V6 does not like to rev high.
@@legostar55 True... the 2001 taurus i used to drive had a vulcan and it didn't rev crazy. Acceleration was surprisingly okay, did't feel much different than dad's old 1999 suburban that had 255 horsepower. When punching the gas with the wheels turned hard left or right from a stop sign, the tires almost always chirped
Yeah, I've had 5 Sables pretty decent quality. But 1 of mine had the Vulcan while the other 4 had the duratech. The duratech is definitely the engine you want, it has good power, could take a little bit of high revving if ya gotta "give it the beans" and its relatively good on fuel even by todays standards. The Vulcan although reliable and pretty well made, I have to say. It accelerates like a dog being flogged, especially uphill. Another thing, these cars are great as long as you keep the engine and transmission oil and fluids clean
These may be the most brilliant car reviews I've ever seen. I can't stop watching.
sidefx996 Thank you!
RegularCars You're welcome
These aren't just car reviews anymore.
They're social studies classes...
I feel you. ....I mean, I feel you man....I mean, I FEEL YOU. I mean.......touch me DON'TTOCUHME!
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RegularCars how the fuck does this not have more likes?
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"filibusters its way through the rev range" .... AMAZING.
My friend had the Taurus version and it blew a head gasket while drag racing me in my moms Windstar with the same engine.
+Evann Smith This mad me laugh so hard haha. I remeber my 2003 Taurus and man that thing just had no power to do anything but fishtail on dirtroads
+Evann Smith I had a '99 Taurus with the same engine as my first car. Got it with 101,000 miles on the clock, didn't even drive it hard, and the block completely locked up a week after I hit 104,000 miles. Hadn't even had the car six months.
+Evan Richardson How long had it been sitting?
I had a 98 Taurus "gifted" as a hand-me-down from my grandpa to me as my first car with just something like 20-30k on the odo. The car did not last past 64k. Somehow in that span of time all of the computers died, it had emissions systems problems, electrical issues, the radiator rusted out and clogged the coolant loop while driving on the golden gate bridge, and finally the transmission just totally shit the bed and we crushed that demon.
samwise1790
I had a 626 that uses the same transmission and it was terrible. It needed a rebuild every 20k. Ridiculous.
Sable is the french word for sand...
You can do wathever you want with this information.
IT TRULY DOES GET EVERYWHERE
Alystas this car is sand and the Taurus of the same year was dirt. This looked better then the Taurus. Sand looks better than dirt
Imo
It's also a martin, or the colour black.
Isn't it also a cat thing
I''m going to write it out with my blood.
I drove my '00 Ford Taurus Vulcan V6 for 66 mile round-trip every day for my senior year (before Covid)...it still holding up like a champ.
I had a 2002 Ford Taurus, and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no way the suspension is softer in the Mercury Sable. It wouldn't support the car anymore. That being said. I sold it with over 215k on the odometer. I treated that car like dirt, and it just came back for more. The A/C compressor died and caused an overheating issue, but once that was disabled it ran just fine. The headlights were so fogged over that if you didn't use a restoration kit on them every year you couldn't drive it at night. It was rusted completely through on the rear quarter panels, but I made a $25 profit when I sold it. The Vulcan engine is the most boring motor that I have ever had in a car. It doesn't rev, it doesn't make power, it gets mediocre gas mileage, it doesn't sound good, and it's not very light. It takes forever to warm up on a cold day, and there will always be a small oil leak somewhere (mine was so slow that you didn't have to add between oil changes). It will always smell like oil, but you'll never bother to fix it because... you paid $300 for the car... and then sold it for $325 after you put 15k miles on it.
Turner Pendergrass The car i learned to drive on was 98 Sable that had the Duratec, it was awesome unfortunately the security computer died in it and made the car so unreliable that my parents had to get rid of it.
Turner Pendergrass i had an '01 Taurus with the duratec and i loved that car. I treated her like dirt too and the thing kept coming back for more, kinda like herpes. The duratec made a much better noise than the vulcan and it was pretty much bulletproof. Tune ups were a pain because of all the damn vacuum lines, and having to remove the upper intake manifold but hey, she ran like a top most of the time. i got her with 116k miles and sold her to my mechanic with 172k due to a fuel pump issue. Ive seen it around town and still looks and runs as it did before the issues. Safe, solid cars but by this time ford had given up on the platform and relegated it to fleet sales.
David Gonzalez 01 Vulcan, here. It went through 3 or 4 sets of springs (they kept breaking), always pinged and it ... literally ... rusted in two at 75K miles. Always babied it, too.
Mike Miller Mine was most of the way rusted in two. The plastic trim at the bottom was certainly structural. It was a scary ride, but fun to trash.
+Turner Pendergrass Shit, I'm glad I'm not tne only one who's having a leak issue with the Vulcan. And yes, when hot, the front of the car **always** smells like oil. It doesn't burn it, and the leak's super slow. I add about an eighth of a quart every thousand miles or so, just to be safe. She squeaks like a son of a bitch but never complains otherwise, except when passing. Anything above four grand RPM is borderline dead.
There is one good thing about the Vulcan V6 they'll run forever and almost can't kill them.
I know this video is 648 years old, but I had an '01 Sable LS Premium with the Duratec back in my day. It was a great car. Good power (for the time), good features. Complaints? Rear head room and the trunk. It wasn't a bad trunk, per se. There was plenty of room in that trunk, but the opening to it was awful. Still, she was a great car back then. I miss her like I miss the one that got away. Yeah, I traded up to a superior vehicle, but there's not a day that's passed by, even to this day, that I don't miss her and how good she was to me. I wouldn't mind having her back.
He got it right at the end of the video...these are cars that just keep crawling along. My sister has had 2 of them and they both just kept going, no matter how horrible she treated it. Both were close to 300k mileage when destroyed in accidents.
They aren't pretty...lots of little things go wrong...they aren't well engineered..but somehow it just keeps plodding along.
"Filibuesters its way through the rev range." I love your writing Mr. Regular.
the writing, thats the majic. thats is specificly why i watch....
I drove a 2000 Mercury Sable with a Vulcan to college. It was a fantastic car.
People seem to either thing the taurus/sable was a crap car, or awesome. I personally have had good luck with them. The amount of use and abuse that they can take before the structural components rust out (they will in michigan, and quick) or the transmission gives up the ghost is amazing, especially considering the fact that you can get nice rust free examples for under $1k in florida
I had a 1999 Sable that lasted until 2009 before I put it out to pasture. In high school, I came to appreciate the value of that middle front seat. Good times.
96 Taurus here, 225K miles and still going.
it has broken down, and I have fixed it...
Why? Why not? Still runs great, I still drive it like a mad man, and she likes it.
Here's a fun fact: The VULLCAANNN v6 was used in the taurus from 1986 to 2007... THAT'S 21 YEARS. This thing didn't just overstay it's welcome, it pissed all over your new..... undisturbed......... CLEAN new tile floor and said: "This house, it's mine now"
I have the GS wagon. As a traveling entertainer I pack EVERYTHING in it. I drove 8000 miles around the country in it. I saw the Grand Canyon! I hit a deer at 8Omph. The car made it... The deer did not...
I currently own a 2002 Taurus with the Vulcan engine and 165,000 miles. I am an absolute leadfoot and I am planning a track day in January. Can't wait to hoon my grocery getter at Thunderhill. Only wish I had the DOHC Duratec...
The last line "You're charging up San Juan Hill now..." just cracks me up every time.
I own a sable GS ( base) and I love it. Yes the engine sucks, yes the suspension could be a little better, but all in all for a first car, I love it. For what it is it's a great car especially since I bought mine at 48947 miles. And I don't regret buying it for as much as I did (4K). It's been a great, reliable, fun car to drive. It's my grocery getting, work transporting, skatepark visiting, state-to-state traveling, filibustering engine, coolant leaking, overly tan, faux trimmed, lovable mid-level luxury sedan. Some of the high points are that it has good trunk space, can comfortably fit 5 people (maybe 6), gets decent gas mileage, and requires very little to no maintenance outside of oil changes, brake changes, windshield wiper Replacements, and headlight cleanings. This car has made my adulthood from 20 to 22 and hopefully even further into the future, yes I will buy more cars but this one will stay around for a very long time ( cause I'm not selling it, or getting rid of it), even if the engine blows I will go find another engine and put it in this car no questions asked. So hats off to Ford for giving me the greatest memories in my favorite car of all time, and to Mabel my 2002 Mercury Sable GS, with your v6 iron block push rod, God speed and here's to many years ahead! 💞⭐🎆🎇🎊🥂🍾
Yeah, '04 taurus owner here. Come revisit everything you just said once you're car hits 100k. Around 75-80k is when the real "fun" with the engine will start to begin...
Do you still have the car?
My dad replaced our '90 Sable wagon with a 2000 Sable sedan with the Duratec. It was nice, and surprisingly fun to drive when the coils weren't splitting apart. My mom was backing out of the garage one morning and I heard metal hit the ground as she left. I went out to see what it was and came back with a piece of the rear coil spring.
I have 2 Taurus and a Sable, love them all alot! the Vulcan is a super reliable engine that will just keep on going, but it's slow but it's super damn reliable. I have the Vulcan in both a 99 Taurus SE and a 07 Taurus SEL and I have a Duratech in the Sable. the Duratech is so smooth and speedy and reliable. the Taurus and Sable I can say hands down are some of the most reliable cars ever made. teens beat on them, old people take nice trips in them, single parents are rocking them. family's are rocking them. there just everywhere
IA Vagabond
Yep. Ive owned 5 Tauruses. 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2002. Never had a single issue
As a man with a 98 Taurus SE with 250K miles, I can say this car is getting put through the ringer.
"It's an iron block, pushrod, which filibusters its way through the rev range" - That is a fuckin' hilarious quote... lmfao
God damn there's so much Pennsylvania in this video. Giant, Redner's and Weis? Damn, so weird understanding those references, lol.
I can't speak for the Sable but I have a ton of respect for the Taurus, even if they're incredibly gutless sometimes.
Having had about 15 of them, I've never found one "incredibly gutless", unless it was my '88 with the 2.5L HSC 4cyl and the 3-speed ATX. Even it would cruise at 70 all day long without issue. If you think a 3.0L Taurus is "gutless", then apparently you haven't driven a base (read: 4cyl) Accord or Camry from the same era.
I've driven a 98 Accord with a 2.3 VTEC (which doesn't help my case since their cooling systems like to "buddy up" with the oil ports and ruin everything) which still felt like it had more power than my 97 taurus does. Although to be fair I haven't paid enough attention to do a proper comparison. I'd still rather have the taurus any day. That thing hasn't really let me down yet.
VTEC Accords are awesome, I'm mostly referring more to the DX and LX models (they are what competed with the Vulcan Taurus). I had a '95 Accord LX (non VTEC), and it was incredibly slow. My '95 Taurus now would run circles around it.
I had a '97 (Sable, same as your Taurus as I'm sure you know), it was an incredible car. I deeply regret getting rid of it. In fact, it's one of the main reasons I picked up my '95, I missed the '97 so much. The gen 3 ('96+) gained a few HP with the Vulcan but the car got a lot heavier, so they're not as quick as the previous gen in my experience.
'95 was my favorite body style, which is why I didn't go back with another 3rd gen. I am, however, looking at a '99 and an '03 (4th gen) on craigslist now that need minor repairs. Both cheap, just like this '95 was. I may have a fleet of 'em before long, lol.
Be sure to change your transmission fluid AND FILTER every 30K or there abouts. If you feel a shudder when accelerating, that's a good sign that the trans needs servicing. DO NOT have it flushed (worse than doing nothing at all), make sure they change the fluid and filter if you have it done somewhere. Go so far as to tell them you want to see the old filter, this way you KNOW they did it (you should also see the trans pan under your car being much cleaner than the rest of the engine/trans, as they're supposed to clean it before putting a new gasket on).
Yeah, funny how you mention the 3rd gens being heavier..on top of that, mine's a GL wagon, but I like the wagons the best anyway. I'm planning on eventually getting something much bigger, but if I were to drive another Taurus it would be a 2nd gen, they're my favorite too.
The 98 Accord I drove for a bit is an LX and it's my brother's car that I was doing work on, it's nice all around but the F23 series engines aren't something I would favor. They're good in terms of performance, but in design I don't like them. The cooling jackets are wide open at the top and if you're lucky that the head gasket holds together, one could be unfortunate enough to get a crack somewhere in the block that lets oil in (which is what I think is happening to his car) and eventually it has to be constantly flushed until the engine can be replaced or the car can be junked. But man that thing has a fast feel to it. I think it'd be better and possibly more reliable with a V6 in it though.
Actually, I've never trusted Honda V-6s, I'd rather have one of their 4s. I guess that stems from my experience with early Accord V-6s and the Acura Legend, both of which have lots of issues. I hear Honda's current V-6 (used in the Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline, etc.) is pretty good and reliable, its just the transmissions in those cars that are not that great.
The things you say in these videos are scary accurate sometimes. My grandmother owned a 2003 sable. Now its mine, I'm 17 and I've put subwoofers and 2 amps in the truck while neglecting to fix my cracked front suspension.
2:37 "HEY! IF IT AIN'T BROKE! DON'T BRRBRBRBR MARSHALL TUCKER BAND!"
My mom had an '03 Sable LS. powerhouse engine, pulled my dad's 1999 Chevy Silverado scrap hauler truck fully loaded with 2000lbs of metal, up a long steep hill during the middle of winter.
yeah the ls came with the duratec. Much better engine. Quite high tech at the time especially in the 90's when it first came out.
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Say what you will about the Taurus/Sable and it's Vulcan, put the parts are cheap and plentiful, they're easy to work on, and they've still got enough power-to-weight to whip shitties in parking lots until you wrap it around a lightpost.
yeah,i did that...and did that as well,best thing is that you don't feel bad bashing in the taurus,just go get another door for 50 bucks outta the junk yard,trust me,there's plenty of em in there,lol
Your reviews have really come a long way. This is the perfect balance between a funny/honest review with your odd stuff thrown in (which makes you unique!).
Thanks for making these!
My 71 yr old father just got this car for $500 bucks from a lady friend of his. Pretty clean, he is happy to be back to his American fluff after sitting and driving on the floor of a 4 door Honda Civic with over 370k for a few years. Posture is coming back
You perfectly depicted this car, I have a 2003 taurus with the vulcan, bench seat in the front yea! And a soon to be college student
I had the 3.0 Vulcan in my '02 Ranger. With 154hp it wasn't very fast or impressive. But it sure was reliable. Outside of regular maintenance I racked 250k original miles on the odometer before I traded her in. Never burned oil between changes either, and still ran and shifted like new the day I sold it.
Doesn't surprise me. I've owned every Ford product offered with the Vulcan (except the Mazda Mustang....oops I mean Probe), every damn one of them was as reliable as the sun. The Ranger was, by far, the slowest. I don't know why, maybe gearing? Even my '94 and '96 Aerostar Vulcans were quicker than my Rangers (had a '00 auto and a '94 5-spd, the 5-speed was better but still nothing to brag about).
Honestly my favorite review from your channel. I loved the humor but also that it was an actual review.
2002 Mercury Sable with the Vulcan. If Yonkers New York was a car.
Every other Monday. Yet, ever since the Miata review, enough offers have come in that I may be able to post every week.
you are HILARIOUS man! Thanks for the laughs
Makes me miss my Taurus. The transmission went out after 3 years and only 60,000 miles. Loved that car despite its horrible reliability
Not all iron block pushrod V6's from this era were bad. Look at the Buick 3800 Series 2 L36 or the supercharged L67. They were some really good engines.
*cough* Valve cover gaskets *cough*
*cough* Intake Manifold *cough*
awesomeologyism ive heard about these issues, but ive got an l36 with 100,000ish miles on it, and i havent had any major issue other than coolant elbows.
Some people think because its old it must be bad. Thats not always true.
michaelpack1988 toyota 2jz/1jz owes its design to the lenkil?? i6 that dates back to the 30s makes massive power and couldnt kill it with a stick of tnt and a head start. you are very correct
Alex C We made it to 208,000 miles before a bad thermostat led to an overheated engine that led to an intake manifold gasket.
The tame and non-tame videos are equally good. It gives variety instead of having the same type of delivery.
Please keep making more. This channel is so awesome.
Lol, "a push rod which filibusters its way through the rev range"
"And my white washed ice cream van,...filled with mondo,99 bannanas and gorrila tape" lmfao!!
One of your best lines ever!!!!
interesting video would be a Buick Century, the early 90's models. Those things were seen all over and still are. Used to be a huge car in the rental car industry too.
Oh definitely, I drove one of those for my driving time when getting my license. Had nearly 200,000 miles on it and looked like it had been driven every day since it came off the lot, but driving it you wouldn't suspect any of that really it was perfectly fine.
My family has the 2003 Taurus, it was my first car and even though my father had beat the shit out of it with his aggressive driving it still holds on today. It's more of a backup car to us now but it never failed in its duty.
I absolutely LOVE this video. (And my Sable!) :D
My first and still current car is an 05 Taurus. Vulcan 3L v6. 147k miles and still going. It is the epitome of a lackluster and boring drive but with how cheap parts are and how easy it is to maintain I have no complaints. Had it for less than 2 years, put 27k miles on it. I drive a lot.
Omg Mondo. I'm gonna buy some of that one of these days. And while I'm at it I'll dust off my original Playstation to indulge in some Cool Boarders. And listen to the Cranberries and Sebadoh and Alanis Morrisette. And wear tiny round mirrored sunglasses and a yin yang necklace and black flared pants and tevas and a tie died vintage "save the whales" t-shirt and a pink camo slap bracelet and a mood ring while standing around in front of a Suncoast video smoking Kools and handing out flyers to people for my friend's ska jazz fusion ensemble's performance later that night at this hip shitty bar down town that serves booze to underage kids. It'll be totally awesome.
I had a 1996 Taurus with the Vulcan 3.0, and I really enjoyed that engine. I treated it like dirt and that engine never gave me any lip, it just took it and kept going. Also the car was extremely comfortable.
this car is clinical depression on wheels
Lol no stop being mean to my car!
I had many of these in 90s models, then one I got cheap through family - a 2003 sable gs with a vulcan, cd-player, cloth seats, adjustable pedals, puddle lamps on the mirrors, keyless entry/remote trunk release - loved it - had it for over 5~6 years until my nephew demolished it. I have a 03 toyota corolla and I absolutely despise my toyota and miss my sable. It still drove like a brand new car at almost 70k on the clock, short of the cat's clogging up and wearing out the last year I had it. Had that fixed, like a new car again. Never had it break down short of a dead battery, never had issues, don't remember a check engine light except when the oil got drained by the corrupt paid informants that had previously been fired - fixed that was good as new. The vulcan motor, while not very powerful, was very, very reliable. I didn't beat on mine by full-throttling it, though I did a bit going through corners hard - it handled like an absolute dream. Would completely love to get another one with more options. Completely recommend it for your kid to drive if you're considering.
Parts available in any junkyard super-cheap, usually easy to fix and get to, not much guesswork on what to replace. No frills but has just what you need none of what you don't.
This is one of those few cars that just seems utterly awful in every way.
:( I'm 16 and my dad is giving this to me in a couple of months. Hope it's not as bad as you say haha
3OD17 These are pretty bad cars, but hey, anything free is automatically awesome. Plus, if you're 16 and it's your first car, it's not bad. 16 year olds, particularly males, have a strong tendency to ruin their first cars, either by crashing them, abusing them, neglecting them or making ridiculous modifications. We've all been there, lol. So what better car to ruin than one that already sucks?
3OD17 Actually, I own a 2002 Sable with the Duratec V6 and it's the best car I've ever owned, next to an 03 Focus Zetec. This is a Ford Taurus, which are known for their reliability both in and outside fleets. I love the power, it comes on quick and the MPG is really good for a V6.
Wow well that made me more optimistic about getting this car
3OD17 The Sable GS comes with the Vulcan, LS has the Duratec. Vulcan or Duratec, an engine is an engine is an engine. It's all based on personal experience. Yes, the Sable might look like a car for old people but it's definitely not a bad car. Mine just hit 45,000 miles and the check engine light JUST came on now for a bad exhaust sample valve. An easy $40 fix. My channel has some videos of my sable. Check them out if you're interested.
Love how he absolutely nails the camera with a golf ball and just keeps going with the review
My first car! Complete with the Vulcan engine. Tried 6 times, but never could get the breaks to stop squeeling. I eventually learned to love the sound.
Soooo. Would you car people recommend I buy a sable despite hating how they look? Currently shopping for a second hand car
I have a DOHC Duratec engine and I LOVE it. Checking fluids and polishing it up just now and loving all over it.
5 years later and yet more true than ever, this came out when I got my first car, a 2001 taurus. And now I'm currently fixing up my forth, no not fourth car, fourth Taurus. the good thing about this car is that you can always find parts at the junkyard
ALWAYS
Good to know. I have never made the trip to queens in a car. I've only gone by bus/train/motorcycle.
The sable/taurus is the perfect throw away car for fresh out of college kids. It fits a lot of worldly goods inside, keeps going when things like springs and shocks are broken, and you can actually get well kept/and mechanically sound examples down in florida for under $1k. Use it for 5-7 years, and you won't cry when it's finally time for the junk yard
I got a 2002 Sable LS fully loaded and it was an amazing vehicle. Kinda wish I hadn't traded it and instead just used it as a spare car, but unfortunately being 19 meant high insurance on it even with just PLPD because it was a V6 and was over 100k miles. But you're right, that engine was like pressing the gas pedal into a silk pillow, and it sounded amazing. Nice review.
My cousin really did inherit a sable just like this from Grandma when she died, so your observation is pretty accurate.
The comparisons to Eastern Pennsylvania supermarkets is so spot-on
I've had a 1999 Taurus, and here in Europe it's actually a fast car compared to all the drab economy hatchbacks. Also quite luxurious for the money.
Richard Melchers
The Taurus Ghia?
you should check out my Aurora. It's basically an Oldsmobile for younger people: it's got the luxury, buttons and power of a Cadillac, but in the body of an Oldsmobile. Basically my car was Oldsmobile's last hope of survival, but it failed so bad that the company flopped anyway...
"Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Colt 1911. That made me smile inside.
I can not get enough of these reviews. I awaited the ice-cream truck with Mondo's and 99-Bananas as a kid, Although I don't remember the duct-tape. I think the driver called it fun tape and we would play "damsel in distress"
Everything he said about this car is true- It was my first car given to me by my great grandmother and kept its original everything for ten years until i finally replaced the tires because they cracked and leaked
I have two Tauruses from the same generation, I personally think as far as practical cars go they are terminally underrated. Sure its slow, but its roomy, comfortable and I squeezed 260,000 miles out of one before the engine finally gave out.
1993 Mercury Sable with the 3.8 L engine. Suspension is butter smooth compared to the '91 accord I was borrowing for a few weeks and the acceleration with the bigger engine is really good. 189,4XX on the odometer and it's still kicking ass.
CT is a bit of a drive from PA. It is not exactly a day-trip but it is not out of the question. Thanks!
I had the 3.0 vulcan in a 1995 Ford Ranger, anemic, but it was the engine that never failed. Two years without an oil change, and no major engine work. The transmission went, but that was due to my seventeen year old urge to floor it. Never forget that truck.
"Bring on the jensen subwoofers and bring on the amplifiers" i love you paird both a jensen sub and a dual amp,the biggest audio upgrade these cars will ever have rightfully
*holds a box of FiberOne bars* "...my new favorite PROBLEM!"
I had a 95 Ford Taurus with a 3.0L v6 which was probably the same engine. Had an iron block so it most likely was. It was so heavy and gutless but I paid 200 dollars for the car, put new front coil springs on it for 80 bucks and sold it for 800 dollars after driving it for one winter. That thing never let me down even with a transmission oil leak that I never bothered topping off. After three months the tranny never seized or broke down on me it just kept going. I sold it with the leak and the 30 dollar side cover and gasket to fix it and sent it on its way. No body rust either on this thing and only 80,000 miles but I'm assuming it was really rusty underneath. I didn't even bother to look. If something broke id have just gone to the junk yard and got a new part. The front subframe I know wasnt very rusty at all and it was some seriously tough stuff. The car weighed around 4000lbs so it was built pretty sturdy. I got around 20 mpg and put 20ish bucks in it once a week. It got me to a school and work that winter and that's all that mattered. Weird red interior with white exterior though which was aparantly a rare thing for tauruses. I hope that thing is still running strong
Did I remember to mention how freakn' AWESOME your reviews and writing are sirs?! Well they are and Dr. Thompson would be proud...
I personally think the Vulcan has been around since the 1960s hence the name VULCAN, Star Trek was new then, has been updated throughout its lifetime though! I had the Duratec and I'd never go back to a Vulcan again lol! But the Sable and Taurus have been great cars since its first introduction in 1985. These cars sold well and if they were taken care of held up well too. Can't say that about much cars today!
In 2024 with a 2003 Sable at 200,000+ miles and still works perfectly. Got it up to 90 the other week.
I had a 2001 Ford Taurus, which is essentially the same car. Same engine and I did almost everything he said we did to those cars. Still some of my fondest memories of any of the cars I've owned.
The vulcan is a great motor, as long as you like rusted out water pump impellers, rust plugged heater cores!
For what it's worth, I like the reviews with the tone dialed back a little the best. It seems to make the crazy asides stand out as funnier. Either way, great work, all your videos are funny in one way or another.
"And don't replace those rear struts" Every 96-06 Taurus and Sable. Moog Cargo coils worked like a charm for me.
I have a 03 Taurus with the duratec, not the fastest car out there but it is reliable. Has a little over 180,000 miles on it. Bought it for $1000 dollars, yeah the abs module went bad and it has a leaking gas tank but she still runs. These things don’t die.
As someone who tees off with an 8 iron... I'm not offended at all, that bit was hilarious
I had a 04 Taurus SES (midrange trim) but it had the Duratec. Hands down, way more fun, fuel efficient, and MUCH faster than you would expect. Nobody expects a Taurus to be fast.
I timed my cars, the Taurus and a 93 Camaro RS and the Taurus won every time; it's an unsuspecting motor.
I'm loving these old RCR videos so much
my first car was the GM version of this car: a 1997 Buick Century Custom, which, yes, belonged to my grandmother. It was exactly the same in every way: 3.0L v6, 150 hp, 3 tons, only difference was that it has an automatic. It lasted from when I was 16 in the late 2000's... until I was 23, and I sold it for $1000. By the end, the brake pedal turned on the dome light, none of the electric windows rolled down, there was green scum creeping along every rubber seal and moss on the roof from years washed only by Portland rain, and the only maintenance I ever did was replacing the oil that it kept burning off.
And you know what?
I loved that piece of shit.
My first sable was a 95 I bought in 2002 burgundy beauty leather interior sunroof floor shift 3.8L with 60k original miles. Loved that car. Now I I have an 05 24V LS and an 09 AWD premium. 3.5L 275hp. Love them both
if anyone is wondering the intro song is Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three
Was not expecting that quick mention of the Eagle Summit. That was my first car.
Got an 05 Taurus and aside from the windshield fluid tubes under the hood rotting away and a heater core that needs to be replaced, it’s held up like a champ. It’s got the Vulcan fyi.
3:41 this door panel shot hit me right in the nostalgia, oof
Hey, the windsor block was used way longer and it went out with a bang! (a good one i mean) the 5.0L HO V8 was an incredible engine and the cast iron block it was based on was used since the 60's, all the way til the early/mid 90's
The proud owner of a 2002 Sable LS with the Duratech and I like it even with 140,000 miles on the clock
My dad and I look forward to these vids every week. Always a good laugh
Cheers!
Cheap, reliable, and comfortable transport. Nothing wrong with that! If you what you drive gets you where you need to be without much to worry about you're good.
Funny, this was my first daily driver car. It was the LS trim with DOHC V6 though. I sure as all hell did find it's pain threshold. Took it offroading on multiple occasions, reverse donuts in the high school parking lot, neutral drops constantly, drove it 45 mph off a ramp made of ice and snow. Made it through all of it. Ended up scrapping it in 2014 because the ECU shit the bed for a second time, didn't figure out what it was until we spent days working on it and realized 95% of the suspension was made of rust and only held together with caked mud and sand anyway. The car barely had 150k miles on it.
Not to Necro this Thread BUT.
My first car was a '00 Sable and this Nailed every point.
Janky Struts, I LOVED Flooring that Pedal, Faux Wealth, All sorts of delicious problems with it.
Had to finally put the old Battleaxe down in 2016. Miss that Car. Tough as nails
Cumbersome is such an anthem of its era, what a song.