Re: Buy your Mercury while you can.

Posted by HH56 On 2010/5/28 16:27:34

Gerd, I wouldn't be surprised if not many overseas knows what Mercury is. I'm not even sure they were sold anywhere else but here in North America without looking it up. Believe it was a model designed and introduced in late 30's to fit the price gap between Ford and Lincoln and compete head on with GM's mid level brands. Think early on it was a fancy Ford, then branched out, became a bit bigger with a different body & more or less distinct personality. Some of it's mechanicals then were shared with Lincoln more than with Ford. Later on it came back full circle and as bkazmer said, is today nothing more than a fancy Ford again with a different grill (& higher price).