Me, too.
I want a Viking funeral. That’s why, as soon as I turn sixty-five, I’m gonna buy a longboat and drive that thing around. And don’t tell me I can’t drive a longboat on the road, I’ll find a way!
That was the awesome part about having a slightly out of date, white Crown Vic on the highway- people would get the hell over tout suite when I’d come up behind them.
Or they slow way down to 5 MPH under the speed limit. I hate that.
I adore my Grand Marquis, I will drive it forever. Unless the kids at work who keep wanting to buy it come up with a big offer.
Friends of mine rented a hearse for their wedding. Outdoors. Halloween at sunset. In a historic cemetery. In costume. I was there as the officiant. Good times!
I had a '77 Grand Marquis. Thing was two tone green with every option available from the factory (including an 8-Track1:eek: ). It was like driving a La-Z-Boy down the road. 
Add me the list of Mercury Grand Marquis owners. I love that car!
I got mine from my Aunt. She is about as close to perfect as when my Aunt purchased her in 1989. A garaged kept beauty with only 38,000 miles on her. She is a peach. I can totally see myself driving a Lincoln or Chrysler, but boy do I love the Merc.
And yes, I have often described driving the Queen Mary (yep, that is her name) was like driving a living room down the highway.
I love that car. Did I mention that? I’m not a geezer, and my other vehicles are 1970 Beetles. About as different as could be, those cars, but I love them all.
As an aside, the Mercury Grand Marquis can fit a bonnet for the Volkswagen in it’s trunk. I’ve done it. And I didn’t even have to take out my spare. Who wouldn’t love that feature? 
Dang, I thought for a moment they were finally retiring Buicks.
There’s a car I’ll forever associate with old/lethargic drivers (“fat-assed Buicks” as Jean Shepherd’s dad called them in his short stories). It wouldn’t matter who they got to endorse them (Tiger Woods, hilariously, some years ago), they’d still be the essential old fart-mobile.
Olds, on the other hand, had a legendary muscle car - the Rocket 88. Think about tooling down the road in that baby with the right music playing*.
*excuse the slightly racy video.
I had a '76. I think the only thing that wasn’t power was fluffing the pillow behind your head. You put one finger on the wheel, and one toe on the gas and everything else was taken care of. The back seat was just slightly larger than a queen bed, and you could fit a spare Volkswagen in the trunk. And it had a 460 V8 just in case.
I wish Lincoln would abandon the alphabet soup names for their vehicles. If they want to re-brand, and give a nod to their history, come up with (or bring back) some cool names. I honestly have no desire to learn the difference between the MKZ, MKX, MKS and MKT. What a bunch of lazy names.
No expert, but I believe that engine put out around 250 bhp. In a car that weights over two tonnes.
I’ve got to ask just what “in case” that’s going to be a good mix for.
Sorry, got no stats or dyno tests to back it up… I can just tell you that when you stomped the pedal down it would take off… and it was fast… and you prayed that there were no curves ahead.
When was that “instant,” exactly?
Oldsmobile was named not after OLD PEOPLE, but after Ransom E. Olds, who started making cars well over 100 years ago as the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. The company was bought out by General Motors in 1908, and the Oldsmobile brand was around for nearly a century under the GM banner. Hard to imagine that GM was “done for” in those very early days, decades before their peak mid-century success.
Ransom E. Olds’ initials also show up in the name of the band REO Speedwagon, by the way, named after the vehicle that was named after Mr. Olds.
Me too. While it would not work for me for a daily driver, it’s my go to car for renting (or a Crown Vic). Guess I’ll have to look elsewhere.
Still, it’s a pity we didn’t end up with “Ransomobiles”…just the name sounds like it would have a bowsprit and twin turbines.
See, I’d say a number of good things about the Marquis. It was a good looking beast, it really was, and as comfy as your sofa…but thanks to an engine that couldn’t even do 200 brake horse, it also had about thesame performance as your sofa. Top speed of just over a hundred, and 0-60…well, don’t worry about a stop watch.
And if you were maxing it out, pray god there wasn’t a corner in the next 2 miles, because the brakes were made of sponge and string.
He didn’t say the brand was named after old people. He thought it was terrible that cars with the name “Olds” in the brand would actually start making cars that catered too well to the foot-in-the-grave crowd. Having that audience with the unfortunate name “Olds” was just too hilarious and a bad idea.
The baby boomers’ geezermobile is going to be a full size Japanese car.
The average age of Accord and Camry buyers are now in the low to mid 50’s (the last generation Camry was in the low 60’s, but supposedly the snazzier trims on the current one have brought it down a bit). Meanwhile Buick and Cadillac’s buyers are getting younger, from their height in the low 70’s(!) to currently being in the high 50’s. The Japanese geezermobiles are probably going to surpass at least the GM geezermobiles in buyer age sometime in the next few years.
Around my part of town I’ve seen a decommissioned old Crown still painted black and white with all the police stuff removed and a regular license plate. They painted “Car Ramrod”* on the back. I’ve seen it twice but haven’t been able to get my phone out and snap a pic in time to be able to read it in the pic.
From the movie Super Troopers:
