The cage door creeeeeaks open, (perhaps suggesting the rust that will soon assail most Malaise Lincolns and Mercuries), and the angry mountain lion struts out into a field full of parked cars. The Continental... the Marquis... Montego... Comet......
With today's discussions of Mercury's possible demise and Kirk Kerkorian's boy Jerry York (and by "boy" we mean "the oldest man alive") claiming that Ford should drop Volvo and Mercury like it's hot, we have to wonder if Mercury isn't going to go...
Enough Mercury-themed gloom and doom! In spite of FoMoCo's indistinct branding and forgotten-stepchild neglect of their once-proud "personal luxury" division, plenty of gasoline-pumping hearts have beat faster when their owners mashed the gas on a...
What if you were to turn on your TV in 1997 to find that every facet of reality had been changed to have some connection with the Mercury Grand Marquis? We're a little puzzled about the cops pulling over a Grand Marquis so they could drive it- do...
Can you spot the Mercury Marauder in the picture? The reason you can't is partly due to Ford's hardware, and partly due to the Trilogy Motorsports supercharger sprawled across the V8, grinning like a Cheshire cat. FYI, Trilogy also makes a kit for...
The Capri went through the same sort of bewildering rebadging/rebranding meat grinder as the Cougar; first it was a European Ford Capri, then a thinly-disguised Fox Mustang, and finally a Mazda 323-based roadster built in Australia. The '91-94...
Not all Mercuries are forgotten! When psycho terrorist scrote Timothy McVeigh made his getaway from the site of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, what was he driving when he got popped for lack of license plates? A 1977 Mercury Marquis, a choice...
The Mercury Topaz wasn't so a forgotten Mercury as a disappeared Mercury. As the badge-engineered sibling of the highly forgettable Ford Tempo, the Topaz started out life with three strikes against it. But wait! back in '90 you could get this here...
"1957 Merc Wagon, 368 Engine, PS, PB, new paint, interior, tires, wheels, some new chrome, rebuilt carb, gas tank gas tank cleand and coated, new battery, new spare & wheel. 'Very rare.' Runs Great!! $30,000." Wagons, definitely not cool enough...
"30 seconds is hardly a fair amount of time to judge the handling characteristics of any car. One car recognizes that reality." That's why Mercury made a 20-page brochure explaining the suspension of their Tempo clone. We're sure millions dialed...
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