{"id":3334,"date":"2013-10-07T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2013-10-16T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:28:14","slug":"mercury-grand-marquis-2003-11-oct-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/mercury-grand-marquis-2003-11-oct-7-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Grand Marquis: 2003-’11 – Oct 7, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Grand Marquis label dates back to the late 1970s and was attached to Mercury’s full-size sedan that was a companion to the Ford Crown Victoria. The car’s last major revision was, miraculously, introduced for the 1998 model year, followed in 2003 by a new chassis, front suspension and improved steering. Also new for that model year was the limited-edition Marauder that only lasted a couple of seasons. Most models used a 4.6-liter SOHC V8 that was rated at 224 horsepower. By comparison, the Marauder’s more potent four-valve-per-cylinder double-overhead-cam 4.6 produced 302 horses. The Grand Marquis stuck around until the 2010 model year, but was available primarily for fleet purchasers for an extra year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Grand Marquis label dates back to the late 1970s and was attached to Mercury’s full-size sedan that was a companion to the Ford Crown Victoria. The car’s last major revision was, miraculously, introduced for the 1998 model year, followed in 2003 by a new chassis, front suspension and improved steering. Also new for that model year was the limited-edition Marauder that only lasted a couple of seasons. Most models used a 4.6-liter SOHC V8 that was rated at 224 horsepower. By comparison, the Marauder’s more potent four-valve-per-cylinder double-overhead-cam 4.6 produced 302 horses. The Grand Marquis stuck around until the 2010 model year, but was available primarily for fleet purchasers for an extra year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autofile","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}