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Originally Posted by Wodnek
Its a nice car on the open road. Its a bummer that GM quit making the Caprice and Roadmaster competition. Mid 20s for hwy mileage, no worse than cars half their size.
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Ahhh, the Roadmaster wagon with the woodgrain. You could haul more than a fullsize pickup.
A friend of my father owns a packaging machine manufacturing shop and does a lot of driving for sales, service and upgrading equipment. He puts well over 150K per year on since he drives everywhere. For the past decade he's bought 2yo off-lease Crown Vics. They're big enough to carry stuff with him, comfortable for long haul driving, mileage is pretty decent for a full-size car, they have enough power to do what he needs yet the engine is barely breathing hard. They just go. A couple dozen oil changes, a few sets of tires and a set or two of brakes later he unloads them with 300K +/- on the odometer before anything major goes wrong and moves onto the next one.
My across the street neighbor (who is in his 70's) has owned Grand Marquis as long as they've been making them. He has a '98 now but is seriously considering buying an '08 and just leaving it in his garage until it's time to retire his '96. He loves the full-framed RWD V8 and the platform's days are definitely numbered.