Here goes the bashing.
I read a couple of replies and just skipped down to give my opinion. I have a couple of 66s, Taurus 66s, and an ultralite stainless M85 .38 carry. They're great shooting revolvers and very accurate. The 66s I'll address for strength. They're stronger guns, IMHO, than the K frames they mimic. They have more beef in the frame around the forcing cone allowing for a round forcing cone. I've had a K frame forcing cone split, not impressed with that design. I sold my 19, still have the old M10, great gun in .38. I bought my 3" gun used, is a late 80s design. The lockwork is hammer block, floating firing pin, and is NOT a copy of anything Smith and Wesson. If anything, Smith and Wesson copied the floating firing pin of TAURUS in recent years. This gun, when I bought it for 180 bucks at a gun show, was loose. I got a deal on it, got it home, and figured out the previous owner put the wrong frame screws in the wrong holes. No doubt when it did that and it was loose and out of time due to the lack of a screw impending upon the crane, he probably got on THR and bashed Taurus for being crappy.
Anyway, that gun had been fired enough with hot loads that the back of the Pachmayr gripper it came with was worn smooth from the recoil. I put a Hogue on it for carry. This gun is extremely accurate and quite tight now that the screws are proper and times perfectly.
My 4" gun is newer, early 90s. It has the new to Taurus ...dare I say Ruger rip off?.....transfer bar trigger and the trigger is as good as any K frame, or at least the two I've owned. It is even slightly MORE accurate, puttiing all shots from the bench into 1" at 25 yards with its favorite .38 or .357 ammo. I carry that gun when hiking, usually, though the 3" is a carry and I sometimes have it along when I'm on my place. I was walking back to the truck one day when I found this guy in an oak mott staring at me from about 15 yards. I put one 140 grain Speer JHP on his forehead. It killed him as dead as any Smith or Ruger could and I own both those brands, have owned more Rugers than any other single brand.
And, here's a test of the titanium 85. I have the alloy one with several thousand rounds through it over the years. It's still tight and accurate and has a fantastic trigger, never messed with it, fantastic right out of the box.
http://www.smallarmsreview.com/pdf/taurus.pdf
Yeah, I'm a Taurus fan. You can find GREAT deals on a used one, too. My 4" 66 was 200 bucks 10 years ago and my 3" I got for 180 about 4 years back.