I took a Taurus X out for a brief test drive yesterday with Mrs T. Quite frankly it's excellent.
Seats were great, good complement of standard amenities, tons of space inside, low lift-over into the cargo area, easy to fold third row seats, well controlled ride, great acceleration, tracked beautifully on the highway, and quite quiet to boot. It's one of the only third row seating arrangements that actually allow adults to be reasonably comfortable, with low seat height being the only real impediment.
For it's price and size, it really doesn't have much competition. I won't be switching cars quite yet, but this is definitely the front runner. Mrs T is enamoured with it, which doesn't happen very often.
Whatever the baggage Ford has from the Nasser era, they seem to be putting out some good stuff now.
