Mercury Marauder

[jjue]

The 2003 Marauder DVD came in the mail yesterday, and after watching it, I want one even more. Maybe I'll start a nice power engineering job soon, and in a few years, after I buy a house, I might still be able to keep the Mountaineer and to buy one off someone after he or she gets tired of it. On the DVD, Parnelli Jones was driving it on a road course, and the inside shot showed him driving and talking as if he was cruising at 45 MPH when he was really doing more like 110! That is one tank that can haul!

Anyone else see this DVD yet? If not, you need to order information from the Mercury website. I didn't know that the information that they would send would be a DVD, and I highly recommend requesting information. I hope that Ford start making Mercury the more luxurious performance line that fits well between Ford and Lincoln like they did in the 50-70s.

 

[Digger196]

awesome!

going to cheak this car out!

 

[DocVijay]

I dunno. It just seems like anything based on a Mercury Grand Marquis can only be lame. No offens meant, but my wife's grandfather drives one. To me, if you put the biggest baddest engine and nice wheels on a POS, all you have is a fast POS. Just my $0.02. There are plenty of other cars that can be or are "muscle cars."

 

[addkev]

I have already decided my next car is either a Mercury Marauder or the Ford 500, which should be debutting next year. I think both are going to be bad a$$.

 

[Crankcase]

What is the Ford 500 based on?

 

[addkev]

It is bigger than a Taurus and smaller than a Crown Vic, so I am thinking it is a rebadged Lincoln LS with a little help under the hood. They are keeping a pretty good lid on it so it is hard to say. I read about it in a Motor Week mag at the Dentist about 2 weeks ago.

 

[99explorer5.0]

My parents have a Crown Victoria and that thing is far from a piece of ****. I have the 5.0L in my explorer and that crown vic has the 4.6L in it and it will drive circles around me and get better gas millage while doing it. My truck averages 13-14MPG while driving the crown vic the same way i drive my truck it gets well over 20 MPG.

Its the last of the "real" cars .... big ... losts or storage room .... can fit 6 people in it .... comfortable ride ... has a chassis not this unibody junk they have now .... and has american muscle V8.

I used to love seeing big old american cars driving down the street with their deep tone exhausts ... now all i see is compact cars that crumble on impact sounding like a swarm of bees driving down the street.

 

[Crankcase]

Originally posted by 99explorer5.0
My parents have a Crown Victoria and that thing is far from a piece of ****. I have the 5.0L in my explorer and that crown vic has the 4.6L in it and it will drive circles around me and get better gas millage while doing it. My truck averages 13-14MPG while driving the crown vic the same way i drive my truck it gets well over 20 MPG.

Its the last of the "real" cars .... big ... losts or storage room .... can fit 6 people in it .... comfortable ride ... has a chassis not this unibody junk they have now .... and has american muscle V8.

I used to love seeing big old american cars driving down the street with their deep tone exhausts ... now all i see is compact cars that crumble on impact sounding like a swarm of bees driving down the street.

Well said. The Crown Victoria may be an old timers car, but it is one of the last cars to have rwd and a V8, plus it hauls for a big car. That is why the police use it.

 

[99explorer5.0]

Here is a link which has information about the Ford 500

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[FrankRizzo]

Here's 2 qick pics I took in May at the Fab Fords show.....

 

[Digger196]

the new cop cars everybody!

lol

 

[99explorer5.0]

Did you notice that you took a pic of Jason from Friday the 13th in the first photo?

I think that will be a car that the salesman will have to go with you during the test drive. When i was on the market for a new car i test drove a 2002 mustang. The salesman went with me but that didnt stop me from beating on it. I hit 110 MPH still accelerating hard with one more gear to go before i let off the gas. With the same salesman i took my explorer out for a test drive which was worth more than the mustang and they let me take that by myself.

 

[Digger196]

how fast did the X get up to?

 

[99explorer5.0]

The explorer is the one i chose and i am governed at 109MPH. I hit that after i bought it.

 

[Digger196]

wow thats still pretty fast. why is it governed?

 

[99explorer5.0]

I have no idea ... probably to keep idiots like me from driving a car far past its capabilities. From my experience with rentals and other ford products in my family seems like every FORD which i have driven is governed to 109mph. I also have friends with a cougar 3.8 and another one with a thunderbird 4.6 and those are also governed to 109mph. The only ford product which i have driven which didnt hit a govenor was the mustang but i heard there is one on there just a little higher on the scale.

A superchip is supposed to move the govenor up but im not sure i want to travel any faster than 109mph with my explorer. It seems very stable going in a strait line but if i had to make a sudden lane change i dont think it would hold the road with all 4 wheels on the pavement.

 

[DocVijay]

Originally posted by 99explorer5.0
I used to love seeing big old american cars driving down the street with their deep tone exhausts ... now all i see is compact cars that crumble on impact sounding like a swarm of bees driving down the street.

Yeah, but you gotta remember that nowadays, all cars crumple on impact. It means better survivability for the people inside. Take a look at a Mercedes S600. Big V12 power, RWD, weighs way more than a Crown Vic, and it can definetly give you that deep rumble. Crash it and it'll crumple up like a paper cup. The engine will drop right out of the bottom of the car. It's sure to be a write off at anything more than 30mph. But if you're driving it, you'll probably walk away. I toolove the old muscle. I'm building a 72 Corvette for my wife, 383 stroker, supercharged, NOS. It'll go (eventually) really fast. Or just cruise relaly slow and rumble down the street through stainless sidepipes. Yeah those are great cars, but I hope I never crash in one.

But I do agree abuot there being too many little bumblebees buzzing around these days. But we must thank them. They form the foundation of the current trend in hoppig up cars. We also get the bennefits of their labors. So by all means laugh at them and post stupid pic, just do it here so we can enjoy. But we do owe them alot. Not all of them are wankers.

There's this old guy I know (if he heard me call him that he'd kick my butt), and he used to say that back in the old days, after a bad auto accident, they'd just hose you off the dash and sell the car to the next owner. I'm glad things have changed. I'm glad cars crumple. You should be too.

 

[99explorer5.0]

Well car crumpling is a good thing. Cars with crumple zones and stuff. But i was just at a demo derby this past weekend for the 4th of July celebration and all of the larger cars were still driving around with huge impacts and everyone else that had a smaller car was basically smashed like it was a little tin can ... i cant belive some of those people actually put dodge aries and cars like that in there. Those cars just got torn apart.

The reason why i like the crown vic is because of the size. Many of these smaller cars dont have room for their passangers or even trunk space. If i could have afforded an expedition or navigator i would have much rather bought one of those but those are out of my reach right now.

 

[shorty_2low]

man them new merc are bad 300hp now that would be fun to see the look on a wipper snapers face after you smoke him in his so "cool" import tuner! man thay sound like that have ser. 40 flow masters! sounds like my old torino!

 

[Rhett]

Parnelli Jones was driving it on a road course, and the inside shot showed him driving and talking as if he was cruising at 45 MPH when he was really doing more like 110! That is one tank that can haul!

My Buick could do that stock. hehhe

I'm sure the Marauder is pretty strong though. I like the look of it. Our Ford dealership has one here.