Mercury is gone!
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Mercury is gone!
Sounds like Mercury is going the way of Plymouth, Pontiac and Oldsmobile. I hate to see it go away, but also can understand why Ford would make the decision to let it go. Mercury in recent years weren't much more than rebadged Fords. Still I sure enjoyed my '95 Cougar and it would have been fun to see a new Mercury pony car.
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I know its not exactly ford related, but Navistar/International is buying the Jeep corportation, and are going to offer the Scout, Travelall, and which ever the other model is, the rest of the Chrysler corporations is said to be joining GM, to be General Chrysler Motors (all this accoring to JP magazine article that I read)
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If GM made the Scout, they could call it Gout. It would be a real pain for folks that eat too much rich food. LOL
Jeep and IH could have a new SUV that combines Larado and Scout and call it Layabout.
It is comfortable, but doesn't do anything. LOL
Jeep and IH could have a new SUV that combines Larado and Scout and call it Layabout.
It is comfortable, but doesn't do anything. LOL
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And I thought we were friends...
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I guess since I'm too young to remember the days when Mercuries were worth something I don't feel any love lost besides that just means what ever R&D dollars get to go into Ford prime and thus in a small way into our trucks.
Or maybe by a act of god the Excursion will rise again from all this death that been going around Detroit.
Or maybe by a act of god the Excursion will rise again from all this death that been going around Detroit.
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The article on IH buying Jeep is from April '09, so a lot has changed since then. I doubt that it is really in the works, but makes for some interesting conversation.
IH sold off the tractor side of business a long time ago and Case/IH was created. The truck side became Navistar, but I think they dropped that and have gone back to International for the big truck business.
Mercury had some hot cars in the 50's, 60's and early 70's. They also did some innovative things.
IH sold off the tractor side of business a long time ago and Case/IH was created. The truck side became Navistar, but I think they dropped that and have gone back to International for the big truck business.
Mercury had some hot cars in the 50's, 60's and early 70's. They also did some innovative things.
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Jeep is the most traveled brand in auto history, being owned at one time or another by:
American Bantam, who created it / ******-Overland / Kaiser-Jeep / AMC / AMC/Renault / Chrysler Corporation (ChryCo) / Daimler/Chrysler / ChryCo-owned by Cerberus Capital Management LLC & Daimler-Benz, and the new ChryCo that is controlled by FIAT (fix it again Tony!) and the US Gov't.
Because of the limited facilities at the ****** Toledo OH factory, FoMoCo also assembled Jeeps during WWII (1942/45), but never owned Jeep.
Consider that since the French and German's once owned Jeep, and now it's mostly controlled by the Italian's, what part of Jeep is still American?
btw: ChryCo just annnounced that the Dodge name will no longer by applied to trucks. All will be known simply as Rams.
American Bantam, who created it / ******-Overland / Kaiser-Jeep / AMC / AMC/Renault / Chrysler Corporation (ChryCo) / Daimler/Chrysler / ChryCo-owned by Cerberus Capital Management LLC & Daimler-Benz, and the new ChryCo that is controlled by FIAT (fix it again Tony!) and the US Gov't.
Because of the limited facilities at the ****** Toledo OH factory, FoMoCo also assembled Jeeps during WWII (1942/45), but never owned Jeep.
Originally Posted by 82' Stepside
No need to tarnish a historic AMERICAN brand name!
btw: ChryCo just annnounced that the Dodge name will no longer by applied to trucks. All will be known simply as Rams.
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Point taken, but at least mine was made when it was AMC. Can't get much more american than that! lol