Ford Crown Victoria & Mercury Grand Marquis: 1988 Thru 2006 (Haynes Automotive Repair Manuals)
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The pun may be the lowest form of comedy, but it's an appropriate medium for mocking increasingly hackneyed car names . Can you get what they are before clicking on the picture for an answer? The AMC Eagle Has Landed (H/T to David) [ Renaissance Road ] Mercury Grand Marquis de Lafayette (H/T to David) [ Renaissance Road ] Honda Oslo Peace Accords (H/T to David) [ Renaissance Road ] Nissan Going Rogue...
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
This Grand Marquis certainly seems the polar opposite of yesterday’s Nissan Pao. It weighs three times as much, is a domestic, certainly not an illegal alien, not exactly artistic or tasteful, definitely not retro, and didn’t require a lottery to buy it (more likely rebates). It’s available 7.5 Liter engine is 7.6 times as big [...]
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New car buyers asking dealers to “show me the Carfax” will now be able to confirm that the mint-condition ‘91 Mercury Grand Marquis they’re about to buy was not supposed to be scrapped during the Cash for Clunkers initiative. Carfax Inc. and Experian Automotive’s AutoCheck, the leading sources for basic vehicle history reports, say they’ve acquired [...]
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The administrator of a deceased man's estate is asking the court to summon the witness to the accident that caused the man's death. John D. Patton filed a petition to seek discovery Oct. 27 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Gary M. Lindsay. John D. Patton claims Melvin D. Patton died after the 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis he was driving was involved in a collision with James Toon's 2007 Chrysler...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Filed under: Ford , UAW/Unions it wasn't long ago that U.S. automakers were producing a high percentage of their new products in Canada because labor costs were lower up north than are here in the States. The cost paradigm changed considerably after GM and Chrysler went into Chapter 11 reorganization, as the ailing automakers secured better labor deals with both U.S. and Canadian unions, making the...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Daily If you had a multi-million dollar costume company - y'know the kind that sells sexy librarian and sexy witch outfits for the October holiday - what would you do with the money? If you're Classic Costume Company, Inc. (CCUC), you decide it's time to buy two car-related companies. You start with Imperial Coachworks, Inc. , makers of luxury limos. Then, you add Plug-In...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Officers monitoring Citiwatch surveillance cameras caught a 2007 shooting as it happened, leading Baltimore police to nab the shooter - 28-year-old Keah Wooden - within minutes after she fired the gun. The city State's Attorney's Office released the video footage Tuesday, saying it led to Wooden's conviction last week in Circuit Court on assault, handgun and reckless endangerment charges. Wooden was...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
We've already honored our favorite Mustang commercials , but what about all those other FoMoCo vehicles? We've got 48 of them for you! When you're done here, you might check out our favorite VW ads , then go right on with the Datsun , Toyota , Renault , General Motors , British Leyland , and Chevrolet ads. 1990 Ford Festiva 1932 Ford Model B 1980 Ford Pinto 1984 Ford LTD 1977 Ford Capri 1979 Mercury...
Consumerism Commentary (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
The Cash for Clunkers Program went into effect recently, but so did changes to the official EPA-estimated mpg ratings of several cars. For example, the 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis, according to CNN Money, was rated a combined 18 mpg last week, but as the program began this week, the rating for this year, make and [...] The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing with new episodes every Sunday....
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Jalopnik brings you this exclusive first full list of the disqualified cash for clunkers vehicles . Below, the cars recently made eligible and ineligible after the EPA "refresh." According to the EPA, what's used on the window sticker or on their website is considered to be purely for guidance, whereas the Cash For Clunkers (i.e. CARS Act ) program requires data out to the fourth decimal...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com Legal news for West Palm Beach motorcycle accident lawyers. Live Video shoot by Justice News Flash Staff reporters Heather Ryan and Nicole Howley. Downtown West Palm biker struck, dragged, and killed by automobile driver West Palm Beach, FL--An unidentified motorcycle rider lies dead on the median of Quadrille at the corner of Evernia Street in downtown West Palm Beach...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
A man claims an employee of an automobile repossession company sprayed him with mace in the face after the employee allegedly attempted to repossess a car that was paid in full. Rick L. Seibold filed a lawsuit July 6 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Image Recovery Service and Brad M. Laugh. Rick Seibold claims he was visiting his parents at their 41 Athlone Dr. home in Caseyville on April...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office are looking for a Mercury Grand Marquis that may have been used in a shooting Friday night that killed two.
Strange Justice (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
Police lose it after car chase I am actually rather glad that these low-lifes got a good thrashing and there appears to have been some provocation but the police are not judge and jury. I suspect that the police would have been let off except for the race angle Three men charged in a triple shooting wept openly in court yesterday as a videotape of their beatings at the hands of Philadelphia police...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan. At his blog site, Carpe Diem, he posted this photo as well as the cogent (and very interesting) comments. I took this picture this afternoon about a mile from my office, at the parking lot of UAW Local 599 in Flint, on the edge of Buick City, which employed 28,000 GM workers in the 1980s and was demolished in...
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