Ford Fivehundred, based on Volvo mechanicals, available either as front or all wheel driven. This is a nice car, the interior is a big step up from Taurus. This and it's Freestyle sibling could go a long way to bolster Ford's sales, but they need just a little boost in the power. Although several car magazine have put the Freestyle and Chrysler's Pacifica head to head and despite the Chrysler's almost 50 hp advantage, the Freestyle is quicker and gets better fuel economy.
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the pacifica is a higher level of trim and more of a luxury minivan
Actually the Freestyle Limited comes very nicely equiped, the only option you can get on the Pacifica that you can't on the Limited is a DVD navigation system. Neither the Pacifica or Freestyle want to be known as minivans, they prefer crossover, but that's irelivant. The Pacifica is significantly more expensive than the Freestyle, and slower also.
I posted elsewhere that the 500 and the Taurus are NOT the same car and I think Ford could have come up with a better marketing strategy than changing names on an existing model that clearly was not and is not a Taurus. The Fusion is only slightly less ugly than the Ford 500/Taurus 2008. But, I won't be buying a Taurus/500 or whatever name you want to call it. I see it as service dept's. nightmare when looking for parts. :0
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