farewell old Taurus

Well yesterday me and my wife went for a drive to look at a used car that was for sale. My wife's car is a 2000 Taurus with 234000 miles on it ,it has been a wonderful car but now its starting to have some problems. So I whip in the driveway to look at this car and put it in park,well the Taurus starts missing and the muffler gets loud and the car will barely idle.So we don't even look at the used car that we went to see and head back home, we just get in the driveway at home and white smoke starts rolling out from under the hood The next day I went and bought the used car we went to look at the day before, I got a really good deal on it a 2002 gran prix with 74000 miles on it. The TAURUS is on its way the the scrap yard for scrap, come to find out 2 of the 6 cylinders is not firing and the motor is toast ! I guess this turned out to be a blessing because Ive been looking for a couple of months for a car I could afford and my Taurus made it till the last day !