My favorite styling of Mercury's last years. I never knew there were so many options available on the Mercury Grand Marquis. I also never completely understood the abolition of the panther platform. Didn't Ford sell as many units of this chassis as they had hoped? Or were they overly sensitive to too many people making fun of these gorgeous cars as grandpa's cars?
It was because of new safety and fuel economy regulations for 2012. In order for Ford to make the panther platform safe enough to pass crash tests for its size and weight class, they would need to switch to a unibody construction, or make the frame and body of the car much beefier, making it much heavier and costly to manufacture. Body on frame is great for front and rear impacts, but not for side impacts. This is due to the fact that the frame itself is attached to the body only via mounts, so the body of the car itself doesn't have nearly the amount of rigidity a unibody car would, as there is no integrated framerail backing it up. Additionally, the 4.6 V8 would need to be replaced with a V6 motor. Essentially Ford would need to turn the car into basically the Ford Taurus in order to continue selling it, and it was cheaper to just discontinue it.
@@melvinharris7859 They're idiots how to put a 4.6L SOHC V8 with 239 horsepower into a car that weighs 4,300 lbs. The engine hasn't changed in 20 years, despite the majority of its owners being older and it's not designed to be sporty but it should be at least 300 horsepower.
@@GM-zb4mu 239 horsepower was more than adequate for the target demographics of the vehicle. Putting in a more powerful motor would be completely pointless and all it would do is worsen fuel economy even more. These were never intended to be performance vehicles. And consider at the time, a lot of people buying these cars were coming out of older fullsize sedans from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which made much less power than these cars did. Ford did make efforts to increase the motor's power. In the 90s, these cars made 190HP. Their predecessor which used a 5.0 V8, made only 140HP (seriously).
@@melvinharris7859 You are right, but I meant that it needs an additional 60 horsepower just to keep pace with the development that takes place in sedan cars between 1998-2011 and to maintain its competitiveness.
I wish I could buy one someday. Unfortunately they had not been exported to my country. This model and Crown Victoria are my dream cars. Thank you for video, I like your style of filming!
There you are again ☺️. As always, well filmed, and illustrated with arrows. You have a very pleasant speaking voice! Others talk too much, giving too much personal opinion while you just state the facts and sort of stay in the back ground. I like that! You need to mount the camera more high, so that you can see the road, and get a feel. Try a tripod in the back seat! Check out youtuber Kjell Kriminell! He is good with camera angles. Bad day for filming, no sun. This car is unusual here in Sweden. Mercury was its own brand under Ford, as Lexus to Toyota or such. Mercury seized as a brand in 2011. The car looks roomy and pleasant. Thank you!!/Ove
I bought one of these last year, in vibrant white. 2007 MY, as well. Only 58,700 miles on the odometer. Best cars ever built, imo.
7:55 for V8 roar
I just bought a 2007 with 92000 it’s a beautiful car. I spend months looking for this car. It’s my dream car.
يا ماشاء الله على نظافة😍
My favorite styling of Mercury's last years. I never knew there were so many options available on the Mercury Grand Marquis. I also never completely understood the abolition of the panther platform. Didn't Ford sell as many units of this chassis as they had hoped? Or were they overly sensitive to too many people making fun of these gorgeous cars as grandpa's cars?
It was because of new safety and fuel economy regulations for 2012. In order for Ford to make the panther platform safe enough to pass crash tests for its size and weight class, they would need to switch to a unibody construction, or make the frame and body of the car much beefier, making it much heavier and costly to manufacture. Body on frame is great for front and rear impacts, but not for side impacts. This is due to the fact that the frame itself is attached to the body only via mounts, so the body of the car itself doesn't have nearly the amount of rigidity a unibody car would, as there is no integrated framerail backing it up. Additionally, the 4.6 V8 would need to be replaced with a V6 motor. Essentially Ford would need to turn the car into basically the Ford Taurus in order to continue selling it, and it was cheaper to just discontinue it.
@@melvinharris7859
They're idiots how to put a 4.6L SOHC V8 with 239 horsepower into a car that weighs 4,300 lbs. The engine hasn't changed in 20 years, despite the majority of its owners being older and it's not designed to be sporty but it should be at least 300 horsepower.
@@GM-zb4mu 239 horsepower was more than adequate for the target demographics of the vehicle. Putting in a more powerful motor would be completely pointless and all it would do is worsen fuel economy even more. These were never intended to be performance vehicles.
And consider at the time, a lot of people buying these cars were coming out of older fullsize sedans from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which made much less power than these cars did. Ford did make efforts to increase the motor's power. In the 90s, these cars made 190HP. Their predecessor which used a 5.0 V8, made only 140HP (seriously).
@@melvinharris7859
You are right, but I meant that it needs an additional 60 horsepower just to keep pace with the development that takes place in sedan cars between 1998-2011 and to maintain its competitiveness.
I wish I could buy one someday. Unfortunately they had not been exported to my country. This model and Crown Victoria are my dream cars. Thank you for video, I like your style of filming!
I just bought the same year of this in February. I love the car and leather seats great. It haD 95,000 MILES one owner. Mine silver and mint condition
This is a classic
Would love to have this car.
Even though I prefer the 2003-2005 facelift, I love the whole 2003-2011 generation, it's my favorite so far. Anyway awesome car!
Beautiful car going to buy one come summer
Did you buy it ?
@@sultanakbarali No bought a 2010 Camry lol
@@lukew67What's next xd
Nice clean '07.
My car is the same color, same year, foglight equipped, same interior, etc. - I didn't see a SINGLE difference.
Don't you love Panthers?!
Even maybe the same tinted windows - 5 back, 35 front.
There you are again ☺️. As always, well filmed, and illustrated with arrows. You have a very pleasant speaking voice! Others talk too much, giving too much personal opinion while you just state the facts and sort of stay in the back ground. I like that! You need to mount the camera more high, so that you can see the road, and get a feel. Try a tripod in the back seat! Check out youtuber Kjell Kriminell! He is good with camera angles. Bad day for filming, no sun.
This car is unusual here in Sweden. Mercury was its own brand under Ford, as Lexus to Toyota or such. Mercury seized as a brand in 2011. The car looks roomy and pleasant. Thank you!!/Ove
thx bro for making my day with those relaxing Crown Victoria engine sounds🤤❤❤❤❤
I have the same car same color 2008 78K miles pristine shape i love it.Dash cluster issues are a problem.
Good car
Very nice car, what manufacturer is this Mercury Grand Marquis? 👀👍💖
Ford
Beautiful car, it just needs some new belts I think, it shouldn’t be that loud
Average gas is 10km for L right?
Let's go
Well its also same of ford crown vic.
I just took two tires sir
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