![]() It appears rear-wheel-drive is going to become more prevalent as automakers caught up in the front-wheel-drive revolution of the early ’80s return to RWD in more than a sampling of models. Grand Marquis also boasts two other features that the mature buyer demands: rear-wheel-drive and a V-8 engine, because those were the features of choice when they started to drive and they served them well. Size and weight, we’ve long been told, also mean the ability to tow a trailer or pull a boat, though we honestly can’t recall the last time we saw a Grand Marquis or cousin Ford Crown Victoria with a hitch in use. Rather, the Grand Marquis buyer wants size–and equates–every pound wrapped around him or her as a way to ward off injury in a collision. Grand Marquis is for those who reach a stage, as well as an age, in their lives when neither styling nor fuel economy nor zero-to-60-m.p.h. ![]() ![]() This isn’t a vehicle for the young or young at heart as much as it is for those who start conversations with, “When I was a kid. You won’t find many Mercury Grand Marquises in the parking lot at your local high school or college–except in the teachers’ section. ![]()
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