Hell no, don't buy a Taurus. Seriously, I think the worst car I've ever driven is the current generation Taurus. A daily driver doesn't have to be fast, but the Taurus goes beyond the limits of "slow" and into the realm of moped and city bus acceleration. You can brake torque it on a wet road and it won't break traction. You can floor it at 20 and have a short conversation with your passenger before having to consider letting off a bit to keep pace at 55. As far as I could tell from driving one it's at least 2-3 seconds slower in the quarter than the next slowest car I've driven, which is my mom's Pathfinder, and that did solid 18.0's at the track, so the Taurus is something like a low 20 second car. Gah, the craptacularity is overwhelming.