Like other SVT attempts, the "factory tuner" Focus sent many updates at a astonishingly modest price, originally $17,480. Bracketing the Taurus in sizing, price, and character, they represented an end operate about the problem of competing head-on with the perennially common Accord and Camry. Taurus was meant to depart soon after 2005, when just two varieties of sedan and wagon appeared as a changeover to all-new replacements.