At first glance, it looked like the kind of car your neighbor’s accountant might drive. Conservative lines, a restrained stance, and not a single badge screaming horsepower. But under that sleepy ...

The Ford Taurus SHO’s brief flirtation with a bespoke V8 was one of the strangest powertrain experiments to come out of Detroit in the 1990s, a moment when a sensible family sedan suddenly hid an ...