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Bill Ritchie, a prominent metro Detroit auto dealer who later became a close adviser to his son, Kid Rock, died Thursday after a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 82.
The Mercury 114 was introduced in 1946 [50] to give Mercury-Lincoln dealers a lower-priced car to sell. [49] The 114 was essentially a Ford with a Mercury-style grille, taillights and trim. [ 49 ] Its name was a reference to its 114-inch Ford wheelbase with the larger Mercury models sold in Canada as the Mercury 118 due to its longer wheelbase.
The name means 'Mercury' in German, and tied the new brand to the Lincoln-Mercury dealers through which the car would be sold. Initially, 800 Lincoln-Mercury dealers enrolled to also become Merkur dealers. [11] Ford projected sales of 16,000 to 20,000 units per year.
Merkur (German pronunciation: [mɛʁˈkuːɐ̯], Mercury) is a defunct automobile brand that was marketed by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1985 to 1989. Drawing its name from the German word for Mercury, Merkur was targeted at buyers of European executive cars in North America, selling captive imports produced by the ...
The Premier Automotive Group was formed in 1999 under then-CEO Jacques Nasser and grew to include the Lincoln, Mercury, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo brands. Forbes estimated that, by 2004, Ford had spent $17 billion building on acquisitions to form PAG. [2] In 2002, Lincoln and Mercury returned to Ford's direct control.
This is a list of both production and concept vehicles of the Lincoln and Continental divisions of Ford Motor Company of the United States and Canada. For other vehicles produced by Ford Motor Company see: List of Ford vehicles, List of Mercury vehicles, Edsel, Frontenac, Merkur, Meteor, Monarch.
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