This is a first in a series of articles that will be posted about the people who made the new SHO possible!
The first person in that series is Crissy Rodriguez. Crissy is the Vehicle Dynamics Development Engineer of the new SHO.
Crissy explains her job. "As an engineer, I need to make sure the car is safe,"
"As a (race) driver I have to make sure the car handles well. And then
I have to tune the car to have the right personality for being the
latest Ford."
The new SHO's suspension was tuned by Crissy and is a big change over the regular Taurus. The performance package allows the car to handel the twisties even more by including another 20-percent on
the dampers then 9-percent stiffer rear springs, and a thicker rear
anti-roll bar. These changes make very agile
and immediately responsive.
Rodriguez continues, "After doing this for 12 years, I know what a car
should feel like, and I don't get questioned anymore," Rodriguez has earned the respect of other coleges, and is one of the most infuentual
vehicle engineers at Ford today.
Rodriguez finished with,
"I think I've got the best job at Ford."
