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Edsel had originally marketed the vehicles between Ford’s regular, entry-level models and its luxury Lincoln cars. By this tradition, Mercury soon became an automotive brand well-known for one-upmanship. The brand was named for a fleet-footed Greek god. The name "Mercury" is derived as the rapid messenger of the gods who was written of in Roman mythology. So in keeping with the ancient myth… during its early years the Mercury was especially known for a few tidy performance enhancements. The cars often possessed a few more inches of engine displacement, a higher compression ratio and throaty dual exhausts... all to make the speedy Merc’ a car to own. You see, the Mercury brand continued in production until 2011, when the badge was eventually phased out. In an austerity move common in that decade, FoMoCo refocused its marketing and engineering efforts. This is what will likely make an older Merc more valued as time rolls on.
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Hard Find? As a minister, I found it rather interesting that such planned reductionist trends in American car manufacturing paralleled the social natures of other human endeavors. For example, we historically know that many mercurial political powers lean toward blending the rich diversity of the world’s ethnic populations into a more acceptable mash… somewhat like mixing the attributes of Ford and Mercury together. We know that in the last few decades these political progressives wanted to merge my own Christian beliefs among a myriad of other religions. You see, the thinkings of mechanical and social engineers changed just after the WWII era. Like the updating from the old flathead Ford and Merc engine to overhead-valves in ’54 was key to gaining horsepower and mastery in the car business, so too our society was thrown into a new melting pot. Where once such tyrants as Adolf Hitler sought to purify their people as a master race by selectively breeding Aryan descendants... and eliminating persons or races they considered as undesirable… the new post-war social dynamic seems to think that races should forcibly be mixed together. Today, using the eugenics’ tools of abortion... mass migration, loose border controls, and other jaded thoughts... these work to manipulating the population. Their |
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