The “new” Taurus almost gave me flashbacks to when I was learning to drive in the early 1970s. Over snow-packed residential streets in Chicago, I very carefully piloted a four-door Torino. After driving that boat-mobile, my Mom’s Toyota Corona Mk. II seemed like a sports car. As it turns out, the driving experience of the big American sedan exists to this day, complete with modern gadgetry such as GPS navigation and satellite radio. Ford took the Five Hundred, which was by all accounts mediocre, and morphed it into what is now a Taurus. More important than any cosmetic changes are…(more)