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The Ford Crown Victoria ("Crown Vic") [2] [3] is a full-size sedan that was marketed and manufactured by Ford. The successor to the Ford LTD Crown Victoria , two generations of the model line were produced from the 1992 until the 2012 model years.
The last Crown Victoria Police Interceptor rolled off the assembly line in August 2011, and was sold to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The vehicle now resides in the agency's academy as a museum piece. [26] This was followed by the final Crown Victoria to ever be produced on September 15, 2011, which was exported to Saudi Arabia.
The first time Ford used "Victoria" as a naming convention was 1932, for both Ford Victoria and Lincoln Victoria 2-door coupes.. The model directly derives its name from the Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria of 1955–1956, the 1980 LTD Crown Victoria revived a distinctive styling feature from its Fairlane namesake: a targa-style band atop the B-pillars.
U.S. officials have begun an investigation into 133,000 Honda Fit models in response to consumer complaints about headlights that stopped working. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Headlight flashing might have come into more common use as a means of attempting driver-to-driver communication by the mid-1970s, [3] when cars began to come with headlight beam selectors located on the steering column—typically activated by pulling the turn signal stalk—rather than the previous foot-operated pushbutton switches.
Beginning in the 2000s, there was a resurgence in interest in the idea of moving or optimizing the headlight beam in response not only to vehicular steering and suspension dynamics, but also to ambient weather and visibility conditions, vehicle speed, and road curvature and contour.
The Ford Crown Victoria became the most widely used sedan for yellow cabs in New York. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded dozens of Crown Victoria taxi cabs. [55] As of November 2023, just two Crown Victoria cabs are still in service, with a combined mileage of over 1,000,000 miles (1,600,000 km).
November 12 In court, the two videos of Ford in the possession of the police are revealed to be different length videos of the same event. The first video is 90 seconds long; the second is shorter. [131] Judge Nordheimer views the videos and reserves judgment whether to release them to Muhammad Khattak or his lawyer for viewing.