Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 2005 Ford Taurus Station Wagon
Ford had one of its all-time greatest successes with the original 1986-2007 Taurus (and its Mercury Sable twin), and the roomy Taurus wagon could take credit for a respectable slice of those sales. Still, the parallel rise of the minivan and the SUV squeezed wagon sales hard as the 1990s progressed. The full-sized, rear-wheel-drive LTD Crown Victoria Country Squire got the axe in 1991, but the sales momentum of the Taurus wagon kept it alive well into our current century. Today's Junkyard Find in Colorado is one of the final handful of Taurus/Sable wagons ever built, and thus an important part of our automotive heritage.
All Sable production ended in 2004, with a tiny sprinkling of model-year '05 Sable sedans and wagons rolling out of showrooms before the end. The final Taurus wagons rolled off the Georgia assembly line in late 2004 as 2005 models, and all wore the second-from-the-bottom SE trim level. Production of the original Taurus sedan continued through 2007, though every one built after early 2006 went to fleet buyers only. After that, the Taurus name was applied to a Volvo-based sedan and its crossover cousin, but it just wasn't the same.
Yes, a numbers-matching, original, final-year Taurus wagon. This is another excellent junkyard example of the "rare but not valuable" phenomenon.
