10/07/2008 15:53. Discussions had already begun with Yamaha to produce a light and powerful DOHC 3.0-litre V6 engine for this purpose. The code name of the car in which this engine was to be placed was the GN-34.

But things didn't quite work out as planned. By the mid to late 1980s, sales volumes were decreasing rapidly for two-seater sports cars. As a result, Ford decided that the market for such vehicles had all but vanished - yet it still had a contract with Yamaha to produce the light weight engines.

So what to do with these special engines? Ford decided to produce a sport/luxury version of the Taurus that would host this Yamaha-built V6 power plant. And making it even more exclusive, it would only be sold with a manual transmission.

The engine itself was capable of producing 220 hp with 200 ft.... // CanadianDriver