Originally Posted by Skippy

I used to have a Lincoln Town Car, built on the same Panther platform as the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis. It was inexpensive to buy, inexpensive on parts, and generally easy to work on (except for that time I had to replace the heater core). However, the Panther platform was never offered with a manual transmission, and I averaged 18 mpg over the 60,000 miles I put on the Town Car.