Mercury
Mercury Cougar transformed into convincing Audi R8
The seventh-generation of the Mercury Cougar broke with tradition, switching from Detroit’s classic front-engine, rear-wheel drive architecture to the more common front-engine, front-wheel drive design. Its styling was also considered pretty radical for the times, with swoopy curves replacing its predecessor’s formal roof lines. We’d wager that the last Cougar’s designers would never have believed [...]
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LA 2008: 2010 Mercury Milan stays out of the fray
It’s almost hard to believe that a few months ago Mercury was headed for the River Styx. Now it’s slated to live, although life is only slowly returning. The Mercury Milan sat up on its plinth at the LA Auto Show today and didn’t do much – not even turn – but it didn’t look [...]
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LA 2008: Redesigned 2010 Ford Fusion
At the preview for the 2010 Ford Fusion, Frank Davis, Executive Director of North American Product Programs described Ford’s goal as combingin best-in-class fuel economy with a much bolder appearance. The mid-size C/D segment in which the Fusion competes is the second largest in the U.S. market, accounting for 2.1 million vehicles last year including [...]
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LA 2008: Mercury debuts 2010 Milan
We’ll spare you from going over the laundry list of changes for the new 2010 Mercury Milan since you’ve already read about them in the post above on the 2010 Ford Fusion. Both cars share a lot in common, so instead we’ll tell you what’s different between them. The 2010 Milan gets its own redesign [...]
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Tech Analysis: 2010 Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan powertrains, 38 mpg hybrid!
The long-awaited redesign of the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan is almost upon us and we got our first look at the new powertrains this week in Dearborn. As expected, increased fuel efficiency has been the number one priority for Ford’s engineers, followed by power and refinement. In the conventional models, the sedans have picked [...]
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Spy Shots: 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid completely uncovered
Ford’s world debuts at the LA Auto Show will include the new Mustang, Fusion, MKZ, and Milan. Of all the vehicles scheduled for a debut, the Milan will likely garner the least amount of press, because the Mustang is an icon, the Fusion carries the bulk of Ford’s mid-size volume, and the MKZ competes in [...]
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Ford “Smart Gauge” collects green leaves for good behavior w/VIDEO
You drive like crap and you know it. Stop the burnouts, late braking and 100-mph freeway sprint and you just might make a tank of gas last longer than a day. Sure, automakers like Ford could spend a few million on lectures to teach car buyers a thing or two about better driving. But if [...]
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Ford to meet with dealers about future products, try to close stores
2008 has been a historically woeful year for the auto market, but Ford dealers have been in the crosshairs of a sales decline for over a decade. That brutal reality, along with financial incentives of up to $700,000 or more from the Blue Oval, has lead to the closure of over 500 dealers since mid-2006, [...]
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Ford to charge $700 premium for Ecoboost
Ford has been touting Ecoboost as an economical alternative to hybrid technology, and the Blue Oval backed it up a bit today by announcing that the engine tech will cost about $700 per vehicle. Ecoboost is said to deliver 20-30% fuel economy gains by combining turbochargers and direct injection technology with down-sized engines. The automaker [...]
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Spy Shots: 2010 Mercury Milan is up next
It seems like the Mercury Milan’s lot in life is to follow the Ford Fusion, go wherever the Fusion goes and do whatever the Fusion does. Thus it’s no surprise that when spy photographers happened upon prototypes of the 2010 Ford Fusion out being tested, the 2010 Mercury Milan was not far behind. Comparing the [...]
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