Lincoln Town Car vs Ford Crown Vic vs Mercury Grand Marquis?
Lincoln Town Car vs Ford Crown Vic vs Mercury Grand Marquis? - 1
VS? VS what? Are you wanting to know the difference? Nothing of consequence
This is badge engineering Ford style. Those three vehicles share loads of parts.
They are basically the same car with the same engine, so would guess the slightly lighter Crown Vic, then the GM, & finally the heavier Town car, but not that far apart…
Most Crown Vics you will find today will be ex-police models with tweed seats, rubber floormats, and few amenities. Until ford discontinued Mercury, they pushed the Grand Marquis toward the civilian market, and in the last 8 or 10 years of its production run, focused the Crown Vic almost exclusively on the police & taxi market. So late-model Grand Marquis will have nicer velour or leather seats, real carpet, faux woodgrain trim, nicer alloy wheels, and more chrome on the exterior.
Police package Vics will have an oil cooler, steel wheels, 3.55 gears in the back (as opposed to 2.83 gears in most Grand Marquis's), and heavier duty suspension components. After 1998, most of the sheetmetal on the two is identical.
The Town Car has a unique body, but the suspension, chassis and drivetrain are identical to the Crown Vic/Grand Marquis. The interiors are usually trimmed out a bit nicer.
There's one more variant to that platform they only made for 2 years - The Mercury Marauder. This was the hot rod version with a stiffer suspension, the police package's 3.55 rear gears, 18" 5-spoke alloy wheels, and a 300 horsepower DOHC 32V 4.6L V8. If it's speed you're after, find a Marauder.
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