Yes, a German made Ford Taunus P6

That's interesting, what is it really? A Taunus?

A Taurus for sale. O.k., 20 years too old and from the wrong continent, but very rare:

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=59031159&pageNumber=1&__lp- =5&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCE- NDING&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetex- t=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car- &maxFirstRegistrationDate=1970-12-31&ambitCountry=DE&zipcode=30989&zipcodeRadius=50&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=- EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de&tabNumber=- 1

And a lovely license-plate.

Regardless of the name I think they did a pretty nice job updating the car. I think they should have discontinued the 4th gen Taurus during 2004 and just named the Five Hundred a Taurus to begin with. I think the Volvo platform fits the market segment they're trying to reach better than the Fusion so they made a good choice at using the Taurus name on that platform. Don't get me wrong the Fusion is a good car but I don't think the Taurus name would fit it. I also think that renaming the Freestyle to Taurus X was a stupid idea. I doubt they'll wring out any more sales just because they tacked the Taurus name on it.

Well they could be used for police cars and taxis, so they will appear in some movies.

If it is safe in crashes, we can hope to see many of these crashed in movies, like the old Taurus

Probably not. The new ads in print and TV are lame.

They are acually pretty nice cars, although I think Five-Hundred sounds a lot better than Taurus. I think it was a stupid move really. The best think about the car is that it has a 5 star crash test rating. my question is though, would changing the name of the car make Ford sell more? We will have to see...

They were invoking older nameplates, most notably, Fairlane and Galaxie whose suffix was 500. I know, however, of no past Fords for which the badge is spelled out "FIVE HUNDRED."

While this is on topic, if they ever resurrect the Galaxie series name, they'd better spell it right, the same as it was before (with "ie").

Long live Ford!

Yeah, the Fairlane concept has been renamed the Ford Flex.
http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2007/03/ford_flex.html