The 2003 Mercury Marauder

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

This came up in a private message and I thought I'd share it here as a small history lesson.

Ford has used the Mercury Marauder model name three times. The third time was in 2003, when for a single year they produced this amazing vehicle:

This was in some ways a luxury-ish (Mercury brand after all) Police Interceptor. 302 HP ?, 318 LB-FT of torque ?, in a four-door sleeper sedan. Remember I'm talking about 2003, when an entry-level Mustang had only 190 HP and a Mustang GT had only 260 HP. This was a bit of a RWD (yes, RWD, because Panther platform!) monster for the time.

It even had its own marketing DVD, which I still own (sorry about the blur on some of the pics, just took them quickly):

"As seen on Speed Channel" ?

I've seen exactly one used (of the under 12,000 sold according to Wikipedia) locally since then. It sold before I had a chance to even get to the dealer to test drive it.

I just thought some folks on here might appreciate this. I now return you to non-ICE BEV Ford discussions. ?

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[balthisar]

I was just complaining the other day, either here on on Reddit, that I totally stopped using one of the local dealers because they wouldn't A-Plan a Marauder for me. They said the car would be too hot. Joke's on them.