View Full Version : Last Mercury dealership closes
DetroitMarauder
12-22-2007, 09:57 PM
Hmm...
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/18/last-mercury-stand-alone-dealership-closes/
DetroitMarauder
12-22-2007, 11:34 PM
"It could be that the brand has nothing unique to offer other than tarted up Fords. The fleet-only status of the Crown Victoria makes the Mercury store the only place to get the Panther platform without the Town Car drag, but the Grand Marquis long ago had its day in the sun."
Hmmm...
DetroitMarauder
12-22-2007, 11:53 PM
This article makes me f**cking pissed.
Cause it's true.
Mercury division hasn't done ***** in the last 40 years! The Cougar and of course the Marauder's are the only cars worth mentioning in the history books.
Like I wrote in another Post about Mercury dying, nobody gave a crap that Plymouth is gone.
That pi**ed me off too.
Plymouth put out some of the finest Muscle cars on the Market using scraps from Dodge.
Mercury will soon disappear and going to a Lincoln dealer for a part will be like going to Vegas.
Your going to lose alot of cash.
DetroitMarauder
12-23-2007, 01:34 AM
Remember Oldsmobile?
442 Cutlass? Badass car...
Nobody gives a crap that Olds went belly up.
DetroitMarauder
12-23-2007, 02:05 AM
Ok, I'm done venting...
Happy Holidays all!
Motorhead350
12-23-2007, 02:16 AM
I got the picture and ya I see things the same way too.
03mara300b
12-23-2007, 05:04 AM
Mercury,..... RIP,... sad.
FastMerc
12-23-2007, 08:09 AM
Very sad for Mercury lovers, Ford designers just arent giving Mercury any help!
Aren Jay
12-23-2007, 04:01 PM
I still say someone should buy Mercury, Ford needs money lets give them some and buy Mercury. Include the Panther plaform and release a series of special limited number say 180 each year. Slightly better fit and with a full tune and add on parts, from say Dennis Reinhart, FIT and Wes/Trilogy 60 each with a nice high price tag and 200mph super car capabilities.
The engineering has already been done, The name is known, a little development and with an assembly line included in the deal we could be releasing the next and biggest line of supercars.
Make a new Mercury company with 1000 MM.net and or other site members. Each contributing $10,000.00 and receiving 1000 of the million shares in the new Mercury supercar company. Sell them through the Dealership network, only the best one's in select areas. Have a Saleen of the Marauder supercars.
Ford is selling everything not Ford at the moment. Lets buy it before China takes over Mercury.
Raudermaster
12-23-2007, 04:06 PM
Hmm, there is a Mercury and Lincoln dealer in Dedham, MA, but it's not all Mercury.
LordVader
12-27-2007, 08:41 AM
Maybe someone should tell "Cortese Lincoln-Mercury", Rochester, NY. that they really aren't in business any more.
merc6
12-27-2007, 09:27 AM
Sucks! Last resort would be converting the last of the fleet to donks.
jerrym3
12-27-2007, 06:13 PM
I'm old enough to remember the death of the Packard, Hudson, Nash, Willys, Studebaker, Kaiser-Frazer, Henry J, Desoto, and Edsel.
But I never expected Plymouth, Oldsmobile, and Mercury to go.
A woman we know says she has never gotten so many compliments about any other car as she has about her Mercury Milan, but isn't that really just another version of a Mazda?
I guess that I'll just have to fondly remember the 49/50/51 bathtub models, and the Turnpike Cruisers, Cyclones, Montclairs, Park Lanes, Sun Valleys, and Cougars of a once great name. (Anyone remember the Mercury Medalist?)
Really sad.
What will the old car show vehicles be like 25 years from now? Rows of BMWs?
bigjon
12-27-2007, 11:09 PM
i am honestly surprised he lasted that long. i have not heard of a stand alone mercury dealership in years. a lot of years.
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