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Ford decided to manufacture the last Mercury Grand Marquis

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Mercury, the brand founded by Ford in 1939 having the headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S and being sold mostly in Canada and U.S. will disappear from the automotive landscape this year. Just few days ago, the last model bearing the Mercury badge, Grand Marquis, left the Saint Thomas gates plant in Canada.

Mercury Logo
Mercury Logo

The Americans from Ford decided to end here the journey of the Mercury brand, a journey of about 72 years. Ford claims that new priorities have been set, more exactly they are focusing on the Ford and Lincoln brands developing process and can’t take care furthermore of Mercury.

Regarding the sales figures, Ford managed to sell about 93,000 Mercury vehicles, quite disappointing if we compare the last year with the 1978 when the American manufacturer managed to sell about 580,000 units bearing the Mercury logo. Mercury brand has been founded by Edsel Ford, the son of Henry Ford, the man who founded the better known Ford Motor Company in 1903.

Andrei Ursu
the authorAndrei Ursu
Andrei is one of the oldest automotive journalists of Automotorblog and has written more than 3000 articles for our publication. He has been passionate about cars since he was a small child, and he joined our team of writers in 2009. In addition to his passion for cars, he is also passionate about music. In his free time, he composes songs and sings them, which also brought him real success in the musical field.

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  • Quotation from a later MERCURY emblem trunk,and emblem of the mod.Grand Marquis 2008. NELSON DEL CARPIO.

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