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2010 Ford Escape - Click above for high-res image gallery
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently investigating 2010 and 2011
Ford Escapes and
Mercury Mariners due to several complaints of shattering rear glass. According to
The Detroit News, there have been 18 reported complaints of the glass braking "simultaneously" while opening or closing the liftgate, and one of the incidents reportedly resulted in the vehicle owner and a 10-year-old child receiving cuts from the glass.
The NHTSA investigation adds that
Ford issued a technical service bulletin to dealers last November for 2010-2011 Escape and Mariner models. The TSB states that the incidents tend to occur in colder temperatures, and instructs technicians to inspect the glass for signs of impact or external damage, followed by glass replacement.
The investigation covers 200,000 vehicles built on or before October 15, 2010, but that total pales in comparison to a
Ford recall that has already been issued for the same problem. In 2004, Ford recalled 955,000 2002 and 2003
Ford Explorers and
Mercury Mountaineers for liftgate glass issues. Ford received more than 5,000 complaints for that recall - far and above what NHTSA has received for this latest issue.
Photos copyright (C)2011 Chris Shunk / AOL
[Source:
The Detroit News]
Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner under investigation for rear glass that shatters originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 02 May 2011 11:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 2nd, 2011
Filed under: SUV, Plants/Manufacturing, Mercury, Earnings/Financials
Ford is already well into winding down its
Mercury line, and the autoamker has announced that the very last of the soon-to-be dead brand's products built for retail sales was manufactured on Sunday, October 3. The final
Mercury Mariner rolled off of the assembly line at the company's Kansas City facility, putting an end to a brand with over 70 years of history behind it.
Even after the Mariner heads off into the automotive sunset, Ford says that it will continue to manufacture a handful of Mercury models for fleet and government service for a while longer, though mum's the word on how long we can expect that practice to continue.
Interestingly enough, according to
USA Today, most incentives on Mercury vehicles have all but dried up, even as the brand's August production increased by 120 percent compared to July's figures. Instead of cash on the hood, some areas are offering no-cost maintenance or similar programs. Even so, Mercury has continued to out-sell
Lincoln right to the end - besting Ford's luxury arm's sales by nine percent in August.
[Source:
USA Today]
Report: Last Mercury for retail business built on Sunday originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 4th, 2010
Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Mercury
Farrah Fawcett, a Mercury Cougar and a real, live Cougar - Click above to watch the videos after the break
An automobile manufacturer doesn't survive for 70 years without producing its fair share of television commercials. In fact,
Ford's Mercury division has been around since well before the television was a common item to see in American living rooms. As such, there is a plethora of past and present advertisements available on YouTube from which we decided to assemble a video homage to the soon-to-be-departed interplanetary marque.
Some of our personal favorites include those that recite the long-lost "Ride with the cat!" tagline that we presume was tied to the brand's popular Cougar model before being adopted across the line. Then there's the classic Farrah Fawcett spot or two where she has multiple perfect hairstyles and the car has "glove-soft vinyl."
Speaking of the late actress, did we mention that we think we now know how the term Cougar came to depict an attractive older woman looking for guys? They are all over Mercury Cougar commercials from the 1970s and '80s.
In conclusion, we had to put
Jill Wagner on our list (and so we did, twice), and we couldn't possibly overlook the 1971 Marquis that apparently rode better than both a contemporary $16,000 limo and an exotic European luxury sedan. Blind
taste ride test for the win! See a slew of dated Mercury commercials
after the break.
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Video Homage: Best Mercury Commercials Of All Time originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 3rd, 2010
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