Ford Taurus (sixth generation)

The sixth generation of the Ford Taurus is a full-size sedan manufactured and marketed by Ford for model years 2010-2019 with a mild facelift for model year 2013. While sharing the chassis underpinnings of the previous generation Taurus and the Five Hundred, the exterior and interior received a complete redesign. Replacing New Edge in North America, the sixth-generation Taurus revealed the Kinetic Design design language. The high-performance Ford Taurus SHO made its return, becoming the first turbocharged Taurus. Following the discontinuation of the long-running Crown Victoria Police Interceptor after 2011, Ford introduced a Taurus-based Police Interceptor Sedan for 2013.

The sixth generation became the first version of the Taurus developed without a Mercury Sable counterpart, as Mercury began to pare down its model line. Though never branded as an official successor to the Mercury Grand Marquis, the sixth-generation Taurus superseded it as Ford matched it against the full-size competitors of its predecessors. Ford's Lincoln brand marketed the MKS as a variant of the Taurus, succeeding both the Continental and the Town Car. The Taurus X wagon was replaced by the Ford Flex, adopting a variant of the chassis architecture, also adopted by the Ford Explorer).

As Ford moved its model line away from car-based vehicles to utility-type vehicles and other light trucks at the end of the 2010s, Ford discontinued the Taurus in North America after the 2019 model year (alongside the Fiesta, Focus, and Fusion). The Taurus nameplate remains in use by Changan Ford, marketing a rebranded Ford Mondeo for the Middle East (replacing a namesake model).

Ford assembled the Taurus, Taurus SHO, and the Police Interceptor Sedan alongside the Ford Explorer and Lincoln MKS at its Chicago Assembly facility (Chicago, Illinois). On March 1, 2019, the last Ford Taurus was manufactured in the United States, ending its 34-year American production.