1995 Ford Taurus SHO: the last of the Yamaha V6

This record's own dek describes 1995 as the final year of the Yamaha-built V6 SHO, with 9,567 built and 2,038 of them five-speed manuals. This record's own overview states that both lineages on the V6SHO wiki agree on that total: 7,529 cars with the 3.2-liter DOHC V6 and overdrive automatic and 2,038 with the 3.0-liter DOHC V6 and five-speed manual, and that the option-code table's five paint rows and four trim rows each independently add up to 9,567. The 7,529 automatic cars documented in this record account for about 79 percent of the 9,567 total, with the 2,038 manual-transmission cars making up the remainder.¹

Universal equipment for the year, per this record's own overview, includes anti-lock brakes, automatic temperature control, power locks, the high-level audio system, and speed control with a leather-wrapped wheel, all recorded on the full 9,567 cars. The power moonroof, code 13B, and the Luxury Convenience Group, code 53L, are each recorded on 6,777 cars, the same figure for both options.¹

This record's own production note states that the detail table's body-type row prints 8,929, a figure the note describes as apparently copied from 1991, while the engine, paint, and trim rows all independently agree on 9,567 for 1995. That note treats the 8,929 figure as an error in the source table rather than a genuine second lineage, since no other row in this record supports it.¹

Two engines and two transmissions are documented, paired by powertrain: the 3.2-liter DOHC 24-valve V6 at 220 hp and 215 lb-ft with the overdrive automatic, carrying the 7,529 figure, and the 3.0-liter DOHC 24-valve V6 at 220 hp with the five-speed manual, carrying the 2,038 figure. This record's own identification section documents engine code P in the eighth VIN position for the 3.2 SHO and Y for the 3.0, with series 54.^1,2

Five paint colors are documented, Deep Emerald Green the most common at 3,700 of the 9,567 total and Moonlight Blue the rarest at 832, alongside Silver Frost at 1,245, Crimson at 1,962, and Vibrant White at 1,828. Four interior trims are documented, split across opal grey and mocha in both cloth-and-leather and full-leather forms, the mocha leather HH trim the largest single group at 3,781 and the mocha cloth-and-leather 9H trim the smallest at 1,054. The opal grey leather H6 trim, at 3,159, is the second-largest of the four documented in this record, while the opal grey cloth-and-leather 96 trim, at 1,573, sits between the two mocha trims in installation count.¹

This record documents a further options list: keyless entry at 8,012, a front license-plate bracket at 7,560, and audio options ranging from the JBL system with power antenna and compact disc player at 4,581 down to the power antenna with compact disc player alone at just 368. Two further audio variants are also documented, JBL with power antenna alone at 2,478 and power antenna with compact disc player at 2,140. A California-required emission system is recorded on 1,210 cars and an engine block immersion heater on 154, the smallest count among this record's own options.¹