Aero hero

undits will argue that the 1986 Ford Taurus was the car that really redefined American car design during the Eighties; but I would argue that its Thunderbird stablemate, which debuted three years earlier, was the Detroit automobile that really represented a break from the past. Both designs were penned under the eye of John J ‘Jack’ Telnack, Ford’s vice-president of light car and truck design at the time. Telnack, having spent the early Seventies working in Europe, had very different ideas from what was then prevalent