2006 Mercury Grand Marquis Overview
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Vehicle
LS Ultimate 4dr Sedan (4.6L 8cyl 4A)
Review
Buy it. Grab one now! Spacious, GREAT smooth ride, ok performance, super inexpensive to buy, maintain, repair and insure. It's no sports car, it's certainly no gas miser Prius (12 dense traffic, 16 mix, 23 highway @ 80mph), but if you want a comfortable, roomy, low cost per mile ride this is it. The interior materials are not high quality but are serviceable. The trunk is good old American sedan huge and the car seats five comfortably, six in a pinch. The rear air suspension does a great job of keeping the car level when loaded. The handling is not as bad as some write ups would have you believe. It's open differential RWD without stability control. If you don't have a reasonable understanding of physics, go find a modern nanny-mobile to do the driving for you. You can drive over pot holes without worrying about blowing a tire or knocking the front end out of line. It's much more forgiving than a modern FWD with weenie low profile tires. Personally, I got tired of replacing tires and wheels during winter driving. 2006 and newer models share a solid 4 speed transmission with the F150 pickup truck. This is a solid vehicle.
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Available Mercury Grand Marquis 2006 Submodel Types: Sedan
Available Trims: LS, GS, LS Premium, LSE, LS Ultimate, LS Fleet
Exterior Colors: Silver Birch Clearcoat Metallic, Light Ice Blue Clearcoat Metallic, Vibrant White Clearcoat, Black Clearcoat, Arizona Beige Clearcoat Metallic, Dark Toreador Red Clearcoat Metallic, Silver Frost Clearcoat Metallic, Harvest Gold Clearcoat Metallic, Spruce Green Clearcoat Metallic, Norsea Blue Clearcoat Metallic, Smokestone Clearcoat Metallic, Chestnut Clearcoat Metallic, Toreador Red Clearcoat Metallic, Deep Wedgewood Blue Clearcoat Metallic, Gold Ash Clearcoat Metallic, Light Blue Clearcoat Metallic, Light Denim Blue Metallic, Light Tundra Clearcoat Metallic, Performance White
Interior Colors: Medium Parchment, Medium Light Stone leather, Light Camel leather, Light Camel premium cloth, Light Flint, Charcoal Black premium cloth, Medium Parchment cloth
Popular Features: Power Driver Seat, Rear Bench Seats, Audio and cruise controls on steering wheel, Auto Climate Control, Trip Computer, Leather Seats, Tire Pressure Warning, Alarm, Post-collision safety system
Engine/Mechanics: 8 cylinders
Transmission: AUTOMATIC
Fuel Types: regular unleaded, flex-fuel (unleaded/E85)
Drivetrains: rear wheel drive
