Archive for the ‘Mercury’ Category
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun looking at Ford Explorers and Mercury Mountaineers from the 2002-2005 model years. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, out of some 1.4 million SUVs produced, more than 200 complaints have been filed with the government agency regarding transmission issues: 11 owners have said that the vehicle will go [...]
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
“Take me out to the ball game / take me out to the crowd / buy me a… Lincoln and Mercury?” The premium end of Ford’s domestic portfolio may not have rewritten the song (yet), but it has brokered a new deal to remain the official vehicle of the New York Mets.
Like the deal that [...]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
It isn’t even noon yet here in Detroit, but already it’s been a busy day thick with bailout fallout and new consumer loan guarantee programs introduced by General Motors and the Ford Motor Company.
The Blue Oval has just unveiled its new Ford Advantage Plan, which can be thought of as a riff on Hyundai’s much [...]
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
It is neither a Mercury Grand Marquis nor a DeSoto, but perhaps it could be considered a kind of royalty. Furniture maker Steve Heller wanted to build a car of his own design, and possessed of a love of Fifties car details, he swiped the things he liked and built what he calls the “Marquis [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
A bitingly cold wind is sweeping through the Motor City this day, but the bigger chill continues to be the rapidly increasing number of idle plants from Detroit’s automakers. As part of a previously-announced bid to trim first-quarter output by nearly 38%, Ford now says it will shut down ten North American factories the week [...]
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Next month Ford is expected to unveil the all new 2010 Ford Taurus at the Detroit Auto Show, but don’t expect the large sedan to be accompanied by a new Mercury Sable. Ford spokesman Mark Schirmer told Automotive News that the spacious sedan will take a dirt nap in April, one month after the Taurus [...]
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The seventh-generation of the Mercury Cougar broke with tradition, switching from Detroit’s classic front-engine, rear-wheel drive architecture to the more common front-engine, front-wheel drive design. Its styling was also considered pretty radical for the times, with swoopy curves replacing its predecessor’s formal roof lines. We’d wager that the last Cougar’s designers would never have believed [...]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
It’s almost hard to believe that a few months ago Mercury was headed for the River Styx. Now it’s slated to live, although life is only slowly returning. The Mercury Milan sat up on its plinth at the LA Auto Show today and didn’t do much - not even turn - but it didn’t look [...]
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