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2011-09-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Last Ford Crown Victoria rolls off the (Canadian) assembly line
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Posted by gromky 2011-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Crown Vic and Mercury Grand Marquis both excellent boomer cars. Reasonably priced, SAFE, comfortable, 20+ MPG. Neither are needed under Obamacare. Ford Motor Co. must die like the rest. Next target, F-150.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-18 01:49||   2011-09-18 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if the safety consideration was for other cars that might be unfortunate enough to collide with it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-09-18 09:10||   2011-09-18 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I have keep mine. It was my dad's company car he purchased. My son blew the engine hot rodding.
So I found a 72 Delta 88. First thing he did was take it and buried the needle at 120. So I took the motor and transmission and put in my dad's Old's wagon.The car is older than my son who drives it now. Obama wasn't going to get that car. No problems with it and easy to work on. Problem now is automotive parts are defective and fail much sooner.
Posted by Dale 2011-09-18 10:21||   2011-09-18 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Modded Crown Vic has been a standard as a police cruiser. Wonder what will replace it?
Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-09-18 10:59||   2011-09-18 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 In answer to your question.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-18 11:08||   2011-09-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Next target, F-150

Blasphemer!
Posted by Frank G 2011-09-18 11:46||   2011-09-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Target the F-150 and you'll have a thousands up thousand of them descend on DC. That might actually be cool to see.
Posted by Charles 2011-09-18 15:35||   2011-09-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The F-150 ain't going away. They sell to many of them. Besides, you could easily put a ton and a half of batteries in the back and turn it into an electric vehicle with enough range to actually drive someplace and back.
Posted by SteveS 2011-09-18 19:44||   2011-09-18 19:44|| Front Page Top

#9 plus, their owners seem to be uncompromising assholes..errrr....wait.

Nevermind. That's true
Posted by Frank G 2011-09-18 21:00||   2011-09-18 21:00|| Front Page Top

#10 They sold a whole lot of explorers and a whole lot of the explorer model that was half pickup truck.

Now the explorer they sell is on a car chassis and the half-truck model isn't available anymore.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-18 22:03||   2011-09-18 22:03|| Front Page Top

#11 And remember, lexan water bottles were very popular right up until they became unavailable.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-18 22:03||   2011-09-18 22:03|| Front Page Top

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