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The loss of a cylinder...what does that mean. I believe my number 1 cylinder is either dead or at this point it's compression level is near 0. So with the car being a 98 Ford Taurus 6 cylinder/3.0 ohv engine, outside of just bad engine performance what else can i be looking at as the engine slowly dies. If it has near ZERO compression and you intend to continue driving until the bitter end you might disconnect the injector on that cylinder.
I'm assuming you have a petrol and not a diesel car. Most likely an electric problem. See, for a petrol engine to die while driving the most common problem is no sparks. Followed by no fuel on the carburettor or the fuel injection. So check if you have sparks and fuel pressure/on the carb. You can check disconnecting one spark plug and getting it near a metal part on the engine, try to run, if a spark flows from the plug to the metal part you have spark. Fuel you can check on the hoses that get it from the tank to the engine.