1992 Ford Taurus SHO: the last manual-only year

This record's own dek describes 1992 as the last manual-only SHO year, with 7,818 cars in the code table and a passenger airbag on about half of them. This record's own overview states that the SHO remained a manual-transmission car for the year, every car in the V6SHO wiki's option-code table pairing the 3.0-liter DOHC V6 with the five-speed manual, with that table's six paint rows and five trim rows each independently summing to 7,818, while the 1997 SHO Registry FAQ lineage on the same page gives 7,801.¹

New option codes appear in the table for the year, per this record's own overview: a passenger airbag, code 59L, fitted to 3,968 cars, a Luxury Convenience Group, code 53L, on 4,092, and sparkle-spoke cast aluminum wheels, code 64D, on 1,440. Anti-lock brakes, speed control with a leather-wrapped wheel, power locks, the light group, and the P215/60R16 94V high-performance tire are recorded on all 7,818 cars.¹

This record's own production section carries the same 7,818-versus-7,801 dispute already noted, with its own treatment showing both figures attributed while stating that color and trim counts follow the code table. Six paint colors are documented, Deep Emerald Green leading at 2,188 cars and Royal Blue the rarest at 820, alongside five interior trims split across black, opal grey and mocha in both unique cloth-and-leather and full-leather forms, the opal grey leather H6 trim the largest single group at 2,142.¹

One engine and one transmission are documented, the Yamaha-built 3.0-liter DOHC 24-valve V6 at 220 hp and the five-speed manual transaxle, both the only powertrain offered and both carrying the disputed 7,818 production figure, since this record documents no other engine or transmission option for the year. This record's own prices section is empty, with its own price note explaining that a J.D. Power live-valuation figure was removed from this record because those pages can change without notice and cannot be independently verified, and warning that other sites quoting a suspiciously exact price for this car may be repeating that same unverifiable figure rather than confirming it.²

This record documents an extensive further options list: the power moonroof at 4,876, keyless entry at 7,751, dual-control power seats at 4,580 against a driver-only power seat at 3,238, and air conditioning split between automatic temperature control at 7,757 and manual at just 61. Audio options range from the JBL luxury sound system at 2,647 through the combined luxury sound and disc player at 2,026 down to a single-disc player at just 227, alongside a power radio antenna at 2,907, a front license-plate bracket at 6,564, and a California emission system fitted to 736 cars.¹

This record's own specifications section documents that same P215/60R16 94V tire fitment across the range, and its identification section documents series 54 and engine code Y in the eighth VIN position as identifying a 3.0 SHO. Its performance section is empty, a documented gap rather than an assumption that no measured data exists, and its conflicts section carries the total-production dispute already summarized above, 7,818 against 7,801, with both figures shown attributed; unpublished leads are empty for the year.³