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With all this, the Probe is at best a "half-American" car despite all-Ford styling and availability of the 3.0-liter Taurus V-6 on midrange LX models for 1990-92. (The base GL used a 2.2-liter Mazda four, the top-line GT a turbocharged version). Though classed as a large car by Consumer Guide®, the EPA, and others, the Five Hundred arrived with a midsize-car engine: a modestly improved "Duratec 30" twincam V-6 with 203 bhp. They got one, and 1989 was showtime -- or rather SHO time: a new "Super High Output" 3.0 V-6 with overhead-cam cylinder heads and four valves per cylinder (instead of two), plus dual exhausts. Every 1988 Chevrolet Nova got rear shoulder belts, rear window defogger, and AM/FM stereo radio as standard equipment. Wagons eschewed rear struts for twin control arms, a system better able to cope with the wider range of load weights wagons carry. Two sedans, plain and fancy wagons, and a smart "basket-handle-roof" coupe reviving the Futura name were offered through 1981 (after which the wagons became Granadas).
Riding a 106-inch Akun Maxwin wheelbase, these four-door sedans and four-door wagons represented Ford's strongest-ever claim to Detroit design leadership: clean, smooth, and carefully detailed, yet not lumpy like some other low-drag "aero" cars. Ford's Ranger (a 1982 newcomer) became sales king of compact pickups. Despite its ultimate demise, Probe was as much a symbol as Taurus of Ford's strong '80s resurgence, a phoenix-like renaissance engineered by Donald E. Petersen (president from 1980, chairman after 1984) and his young, enthusiastic executive team. Probe was redesigned for '93 on a new-generation MX-6 platform with 102.9-inch wheelbase (versus 99), again with much more dramatic styling than its cousin. Probe was a timely Ford weapon against sporty Japanese compacts like Toyota Celica, Honda Prelude, Nissan 200SX -- and Mazda MX-6. Though Dearborn was slow to enter this new fast-growing segment, the edge itself was well-timed, arriving just behind a larger, redesigned Toyota RAV4 and ahead of a new-generation Honda CR-V.
Dearborn also scored big in the burgeoning sport-utility field with Explorer, the upscale 1991 four-door replacement for the two-door Ranger-based Bronco II. The fresh Maverick is destined to be Falcon's replacement. Yet, even they were likely surprised by the success of Taurus, the front-drive 1986 replacement for the junior LTD in the all-important midsize market. Central Market features a Sunday jazz brunch, and Whole Foods often hosts live music concerts on its deck overlooking downtown Austin. Altogether, the greater Austin area encompasses 258.43 square miles. Power came from a 2.3-liter four, only it wasn't the Pinto/Fairmont ohc "Lima" unit but a cut-down version of the old overhead-valve Falcon six, rated at 84 horsepower. Most Tauruses, though, were ordered with the new port-injected 3.0-liter "Vulcan" V-6, a 60-degree overhead-valve design rated at 140 bhp and teamed with automatic only. Ford changed its name only at the last minute amid howls of protest from Mustang loyalists who'd have no truck with a Japanese design -- and with "inferior" front drive at that. The MINI USA Web site has a "Design & Build Your own MINI" feature with over 10,000,000 possible variations. We tried for over an hour to do it for real," Schroeder says, "but we couldn't get it.
While there aren’t many components in Rollet, what you do get is outstandingly produced. It can get you to your destination faster, leaving more time for fishing. Chevy did move about 40,000 more domestic cars in calendar '91, but that was the only time it surpassed Ford in these years. It averaged 371,000 buyers in its first two seasons and another 280,000 for 1986-87. Sales then turned strongly upward for 1988-89, breaking the three-quarter-million mark for the two years combined. The standard manual transaxle shifted from a four- to five-speed after '84, with a three-speed automatic optional all years. Initial engine choices began with a 2.5-liter 88-bhp four, an enlarged Tempo unit available with standard five-speed manual or, from late '87, optional four-speed overdrive automatic transaxles. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Rollet, the RMLE became the most decorated unit in the French army, holding nine mentions in dispatches. Despite a wheelbase half-an-inch longer than Taurus', the Contour was frankly cramped in back, with little underseat footroom and marginal knee, leg, and headroom. There are Web sites that sell complete kits for a little under $300, and if you plan on going top-of-the-line with your gear you can spend more than $300 on the mechanical reel all by itself.