Bye Bye Crown Vic

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Bye Bye Crown Vic

October 22, 2007, 06:46:05 PM

An article in this weeks Newsweek Magazine says Ford will stop selling Crown Vics to the public next year.
Retail sales are down 90% since 2000.
"Last year, Ford sold just 3000 of them to the public; today there are less than 100 new unsold Crown Vics on dealer lots in the whole country."

"The automaker still expects to sell 50,000 Crown Vics to the government this year, mostly for use in law inforcement. But the police interceptor model has been losing market share to the Chevy Impala and the Dodge Charger."

"Of the 4,000 that Ford sells to fleets each year, 3,500 end up as yellow cabs in New York City."
But with Mayor Michael Bloomberg eager to field an all hybrid taxi fleet by 2012, and cities like Boston, San Francisco and Chicago looking at hybrid taxis as a way to cut air pollution, ford is pushing its Escape Hybrid."

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #1 – October 22, 2007, 08:35:41 PM

tis a sad sad day in ford land

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #2 – October 22, 2007, 08:47:33 PM

Not really - if the car had that many fans it'd still be selling. The truth is that it's an ancient, inefficient design that has been on life support (thanks to police) for at least a decade. Crown Vics are ridiculously small inside given the size of them, and their V8's can't even match competitors' V6's. There are simply not many people who will miss the car. You'll hear a few howls of protest from a few "die-hard" fans, but most of those "fans" bought their C/V's secondhand at police auctions, and Ford has no desire whatsoever to build a car that nobody wants new just so somebody can buy a used one cheap.

Besides, with the old Panther finally being put down it opens up a hole in Ford's model line - a hole that would be nicely filled by
the Falcon or some other form of modern, unibody RWD car...

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #3 – October 22, 2007, 09:58:31 PM

That just got proved incorrect. At work we do Fleet. We can never outsell Ford in Fleet sales.

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #4 – October 22, 2007, 10:04:22 PM

Good riddance! Maybe we'll get something with some balls at work in the near future!

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Reply #5 – October 22, 2007, 10:20:26 PM

Good riddance X2.

Other than traditional body frame construction they really had nothing going for them. Even the old body on frame construction has been improved upon with more modern build methods. Hence the car being ancient. No one wants them, not even old people who were the "other market" for the car a few years back. IMO the last good crown vic was made in 1991 if you could still buy the 79-91 style new maybe but then again my memories may be clouded with good pictures from the past.

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #6 – October 22, 2007, 10:37:36 PM

ford should have put the 5.4 in it after all when the 5.0 was standard they were available w/5.8 right as for fleet the impala is worse and the charger w/the V8/hemi got balls but still not happy w/it the v6 chargers stink to pick your poison I liked the LT1 Caprices oh did I say that on a ford site sorry but though they were ugly 5.7/350, posi, trany coolers, handling, etc.

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Reply #7 – October 22, 2007, 11:45:01 PM

Quote from: Innes;184030

ford should have put the 5.4 in it after all when the 5.0 was standard they were available w/5.8 right as for fleet the impala is worse and the charger w/the V8/hemi got balls but still not happy w/it the v6 chargers stink to pick your poison I liked the LT1 Caprices oh did I say that on a ford site sorry but though they were ugly 5.7/350, posi, trany coolers, handling, etc.

my dads friend use to drive one of those lt1 caprices to work. Beat it to ALL HELL, nothing broke but the rear end, to many reverse burnouts drive burnouts!!

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Reply #8 – October 23, 2007, 12:54:55 AM

If ford would add some power to the vic it might actually compete in the whole cop car ring. The impala is pretty pathetic if you ask me, fwd and v6 just doesnt cut it for me. The vic has full frame for ruggedness and bashing other cars (pit maneuver), and if it had the 3v motor it would be able to keep up.

They should make a special edition vic for the final year, s/c 5.4, beefed suspension, nice wheels, ground effects...

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #9 – October 23, 2007, 01:03:05 AM

i agree with thunderchickens statment
basically, if it were any other car company it wouldve been put to rest long ago
i wont miss it

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #10 – October 23, 2007, 11:10:11 AM

I don't feel sorry for Ford not selling large volumes of this car anymore. The Crown Vics are good cars, but Ford lost interest in them and didn't keep them up to date. Instead they just cost cut them to death. As a result, the general public has lost interest in these cars and they are seen as taxi cabs and police cars.

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Reply #11 – October 23, 2007, 04:35:53 PM

Quote from: 88BlueBird;184103

The Crown Vics are good cars, but Ford lost interest in them and didn't keep them up to date. Instead they just cost cut them to death.

That seems to be FoMoCo's motus operandi. The MN12, the Taurus, the Contour, the Ranger, and even the Mustang up until 2005 were all killed by indifference. It seems as though once Ford latches onto a good thing they ride the initial popularity, then just let it die. Hell, they even did it with the Model T.

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #12 – October 23, 2007, 04:39:10 PM

I loved my 2002 Sport.

fine good looking car that had no balls...

Bye Bye Crown Vic

Reply #13 – October 23, 2007, 04:42:45 PM

I saw a newer sport model at the 05 detroit autoshow i think. I thought it was sweet. Closest you can get to a marauder. I guess its just up to the owner to add more power.

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Reply #14 – October 23, 2007, 05:07:12 PM

Quote from: bhazard;184161

I saw a newer sport model at the 05 detroit autoshow i think. I thought it was sweet. Closest you can get to a marauder. I guess its just up to the owner to add more power.

and thats why these cars were cool, screw it get rid of the vic bring back a more stylish Ford LTD, Mercury Marauder and Lincoln Conti