So not too long ago, I was given the opportunity to pick up a 1995 Taurus, that runs AND drives, and is relatively rust free (Typical 15 year old spots starting, but no holes or anything) for 100$. I bought it so I could have a spare car with an automatic (Wife has a tendency to hurt herself and render driving her MINI impossible) and so I could mothball my speed3 for the winter and finally get the rest of the engine work done without having to worry about a DD. Now for the funny part-
I almost wrecked it on my way home from purchasing it. Having an ms3 with upgraded suspension bits and sticky rubber means it handles good. I'm able to toss it into corners fairly aggressively without fear of going for an adventure in the cabbage. As it turns out, a Taurus is NOT designed to do the same things the Mazda is. I was on my way home with it, and hit one of my usual cloverleaves at a normal speed for me.... in the wrong car. I trail braked it in, and gave it just a little steering input, and the car did nothing. Kept plowing straight for the weeds. Little more steering, no dice. Finally had to get all over the brakes to load the front so it would bite, and crank the piss out of the wheel.... woke me right up. Safe to say, I learned a different set of input methods for successfully driving my beater.
About a week later (this morning in fact) I drove the ms3 to work, because surprise surpise, SWMBO blew an arm out at work and is in a sling, so she can't drive the MINI. I hand over the keys to said Taurus, and make my way to the ms3. On my way into work, I hit another one of my familiar clovers. Welp, instead of doing the normal ms3 set for the turn, I did the Taurus version. As it turns out, doing that in said ms3 is a recipe for "We're headed for the median/bowl area, RIGHT NOW." Had to correct the other direction in one helluva hurry to keep myself from playing rally cross on a public roadway.
No real point to that story, just figured I'd share how i'm an idiot and need to remember what car i'm in better.
