# 1998-2000 Mercury Sables **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [June 22, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854 "2007-06-22T17:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edman43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@edman43](https://community.cartalk.com/u/edman43)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/1 "2007-06-22T17:42:49Z")
Does anyone know if these cars EVER had a V8 option? I know the Taurus did…and i believe i remember driving at V8 Sable during this time frame. thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/2 "2007-06-22T17:47:39Z")
The Sables did not have a V-8 option, and if this is another post in regards to smoking the rear tires then it was not a Sable doing it. They’re front drive vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/3 "2007-06-22T17:51:42Z")
thanks for the speedy reply… and thanks again for point out my error in memory… it must have just been a super hot V6! ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/4 "2007-06-22T21:38:51Z")
Those vehicles do run pretty perky for a somewhat heavy car being powered by a V-6. The first time I drove a Sable (back in 87 and they were a fairly new thing) the 3.0 surprised me a bit too. It was a wagon and I was expecting a real garden slug, but it ran out pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/5 "2007-06-23T05:43:58Z")
Taurus SHO has the V8 option. I have heard lots of horror stories about that engine/might have been because of those driving them. Anyone have first hand experience? ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1998-2000-mercury-sables/854/6 "2007-06-23T06:47:37Z")
A friend of my son had a Taurus with the V-8 I believe, and drove it for a long time but he was not a guy with a heavy foot. I think the problem with the V-8 option at the time was the price. My memory is real fuzzy on this, but I think the 8 option was very high priced; maybe in the 3-4k dollar range. Not many people would go for that considering the HP was not THAT much greater than the 6. They may also have a problem with the V-8 causing excessive torque steer when the engine was being hammered hard. I was thinking a magazine article I read a few years back was talking about GM dropping an LS1 into a front drive Impala just to see what would happen. The torque steer was bad enough to make the car unsafe.