Vehicle
Ford Freestyle
The tall estate on the Volvo-derived D3 platform, renamed Taurus X for its last two years — so the same vehicle appears under two names in records three years apart, which is worth knowing before a search comes back empty. It is not the Taurus saloon and shares only its underpinnings with it. The gearbox is the subject here: these were among the few American cars fitted with a ZF continuously variable transmission, an unusual and expensive unit whose behaviour a technician expecting a conventional automatic will misread, and whose fluid specification and service intervals are its own. The 2008-2009 Taurus X swapped it for a six-speed automatic along with the 3.5 Duratec, so the two halves of this page behave quite differently.
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Generations
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First generation 2004–2009
D3 platform with a ZF CVT to 2007, then the 3.5 Duratec and a six-speed as the Taurus X.
- Body styles
- Estate · SUV
- Platform
- Ford D3
- Engines
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- 3.0 V6 — petrol · Duratec 30
- 3.5 V6 — petrol · 196 kW (263 hp) · Duratec, Taurus X
- Transmissions
- CVT · 6-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
Service information
Information, not instruction
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Have anything you intend to act on checked by a trained person against the manufacturer's own procedure for your vehicle. Nothing here replaces that procedure.
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