I think the US "Big 3" manufacturers have pretty much given up on passenger cars. They often as not rank ded LAST in the car magazine auto comparison tests.

My 2009 Mercury Grand Marquis was the last and newest of them I'll ever buy



and the last one ever made was produced on January 4, 2011,




and unceremoniously got shunted off to a rental fleet seomewhere. Last Panther platform car was a Police Interceptor I believe about 10 months later on. Even the Lincoln Town Cars are through.

No big surprise, Mullaly of Ford seveal yers go suggested Ford ought to ditch all cars and just build trucks and SUVs only. Though the Ford Fusion looks likle decent idea though to me.

At the Sacramento Auto show, this year their pickup trucks and SUV's were pretty ritzy looking though.
But so were the prices.

A nicely equipped pickup truck, Ford/Dodge/Chevy/GMC cost $60,000 MSRP.

And a lovely black Cadillac Escalade cost over $83,000.

I think you'd have to be in the last stages of tertiary brain syphilis to even *consider* paying THAT kind of money for those things, I don't care WHO you are..

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)