Towing a 6000 lb trailer with a Taurus?

Tystevens wrote:

Have you been involved in meetings and discussions between the engineers, marketing execs, lawyers, accountants, and everyone else involved in bringing these vehicles to market? If so, I'd love to hear some stories (honestly, I have no idea about your background, but would love to hear stories if you have been involved!). If not, how do you know that one department has no bearing on the other?

Let's just say that I am but one small cog in the machine that makes Ford products and leave it at that. But know that no one person ultimately makes those sorts of decisions. All vehicles are a series of engineering compromises from start to finish. A Taurus could certainly be designed from the ground up to tow those kinds of weights. For a plethora of reasons, it was not. That doesn't mean it is incapable of towing Anything, it simply means it was not designed to do so. A butter knife wasn't designed to be used as a screwdriver, but everybody has done it (and nobody in their right mind would recommend it).

Maybe "not recommended" for towing means that Ford hooked a trailer up to the Taurus and it was not up to the task whatsoever. Or, more likely, maybe a marketing or accounting exec determined that, since Taurus buyers aren't likely to see any value in a tow rating, Ford wouldn't pay a team of engineers to spend the time and money to evaluate and assign a tow rating to the Taurus.

Likely some combination of the two would be my guess...