Used 2006 Ford Taurus Sedan Consumer Reviews
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Great Car!
BW, 07/26/2006
2006 Ford Taurus SEL 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl 4A)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Good handling car. Smooth driving on the highways. Great on long road trips too! Leather seats are very comfortable. Bought mine used with 6,000 miles on it and I just love the car. This is the second Taurus that I've owned over the years. A very reliable automobile. Nice family car with lots of room inside. Saved $10,000 compared to the cost of a new Toyota Camry.
Best First Car!
Carlover101, 03/09/2017
2006 Ford Taurus SEL 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl 4A)
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
I got this car for my first car for School, and I love it! It is very dependable, great storage, and comfort is awesome. I'm 6'3 and the legroom is amazing. The leather is very nice, and durable. The sound system is clean and clear, and very loud. This car is amazing on the highway, gas mileage is better than my dad's new Cadillac XTS. Best car ever, I love it very much. I recommend it for anyone.
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Cheapest of the Cheap
Steve, 03/29/2016
2006 Ford Taurus SE 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl 4A)
4 of 7 people found this review helpful
My son got this as his first car in September 2015. Single middle-aged female owned since it was new. In those 10 years, she put about 70,000 miles on it. The car came with records, among them touting a semi-recent (3 years prior) exhaust overhaul and shortly thereafter (1½ years prior), a new alternator. Oil changes done on time with a major mechanic in the area. If anything seemed like if was going, she had it replaced immediately. It was a good deal on a not-terribly-old car with low mileage. The car was fine until February 2016, when it attempted to self destruct. In one month's time I had to have it towed two hours from home (at a cost of $500) and then replace the intake manifold, a catalytic converter and the alternator. This was all within a 50 mile period. No joke. The car was at the mechanic's for 3 weeks. The alternator died 2 towns away, so it limped to a garage in that area, who had it for another 3 days. In 3 weeks, I invested nearly $2000 into this car, a car that had only 85,000 miles on it and had a full set of records. I was in shock and meager savings account depleted rapidly. Just getting into the car feels like going back to the 1990s. The instrumentation seems so antiquated. The interior feels shoddy. My wife drives a 2006 Chrysler Pacifica -- it's the same year. It feels like it's a full decade ahead in terms of updates. Ford really let this brand die hard. It wasn't competitive with anything released that year. There's no way. It's a full size car that feels incredibly cheap. The interior door panels must have been attached with silly putty, because the panels are literally falling apart -- even on the passenger side, which had seen very little use in it's first decade. But, the car was a good price and I don't care if my kid gets a "Mercedes-feel" out of his first car. But it's surprising that what had once been the top car in America (I actually had a 1993 Taurus when my son was born in 1997), got left so far behind. There's not much difference between that 1993 and the 2006. It drives the same, like it has the same 3.0 engine (and it probably does), the interior feels very familiar. It's just a few body panels got swapped out. Talk about letting your iconic brand go stale. Right now, the car has been stable since the issues last month. However, it has thrown a light on the dash for the airbag. I don't even want to get into that, so we're taking care of it later when the car needs to be inspected and the kid can save a little more money from his after-school gig at a pizzeria. Plus, he's got $1400 to pay me back first (he had $600 available initially).
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outstanding vehicle
collin_mcrae, 03/31/2011
2006 Ford Taurus SE 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl 4A)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
ive bought my ford taurus used with only 40,000 miles on it, it now has 74,000 miles on it and is still running strong ive no problems, just natural wear and tear on the brake pads and rotors, i drive it daily and handles very well on the freeway! it handles poorly in the snow, but other then that i have no issues with my transmission failing and have had it reqularly service every 3,000 miles. great car!
Old, Cheap Car- but it gets me from A to B
Faith, 10/07/2016
2006 Ford Taurus SE 4dr Sedan (3.0L 6cyl 4A)
3 of 6 people found this review helpful
It is what it is- an old, cheap, low-power car. My '06 Taurus has only 75,000 miles on it but has had a lot of repairs for being barely driven before 2014. I've had to replace the battery cables, alternator, brakes and have had several issues with the battery and the car randomly not starting. It doesn't do very well in the snow, but I haven't died yet so it holds up enough. The interior panels do fall off, and the controls/electrics are very, very simplistic and old-fashioned. This car is pretty low-power and struggles to accelerate, don't expect a lot of power from it. All in all, it's a cheap car and it gets me places. Doesn't feel the safest to drive, I don't know if that's because of more problems not diagnosed yet or if it's just the fact it's a pretty cheap car. For the amount of money I have dumped into this car, the most I can get for it is $1,300. Just another old, cheaply made car with problems.
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