was i the only person to get excited about the mercury marauder.maybe since i turn 50 in april im getting to be a little to old for all the speed we enjoy with our trucks.or maybe its because a wife and 3 grand youngins cant ride all at the same time in the truck.what ever the reason its been ordered. no, its another greatlooking,fast play toy .

 

I was interested, too. To bad it's a Mercury...

http://www.mercuryvehicles.com/vehic...ult.asp?page=1

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2000 Silver Lightning
#2798
Born on date: May 9, 2000

 

Kenny Brown hopped up a Crown Vic/Marquee a couple years ago. Very cool....

http://www.kennybrown.com/pantherintro.html

 

My wifes Mountaineer is getting traded in on one of these. She needs this car.
noelvm


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99.5 Red Ligntning, Mobil 1, PRO-M 80 MM MAF/filter, Custom Superchip, Eldebrock 5512 muffler, CAL TRACS, MT ET Streets, best time (1/8) 8.19, Bugflector II, G&H Lens covers head & fog, 200 WT Pioneer 4 CH AMP, BOSE 301 SERIES IV SPEAKERS (IN BACK)LONESTAR RACEWAY 2000 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (AT 56)
70 Vette LS-6 454 (gathering dust in the garage)

 

Hey, I'm only 33, but with 2 kids I'd love to have one. I think the Marauder is very cool. Love the stance and the powerplant.

We had a '97 SHO (decent car), but my wife wanted an Expedition, so that's what we have.

Guess I'll have to put a blower on it sometime.

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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
96 Cobra (12.34 @ 115.8)--392rwhp/433rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.8)--364rwhp/447rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4
http://members.aol.com/Wa2fst/index.html

 

If you've only seen them in books or on TV, I'm here to tell you I got up close and personal with a Maurader about three weeks ago. The real thing is one sweet car. The one I had a chance to look at and hear running had 18" 5 spoke coddington wheels, leather buckets, shifter on the floor with 2 gauges mounted in the console, the instrument cluster was in white with a 140mph speedo and tach. it also had chrome 3" exhaust. In my opinion, the car sounded better than any Mustang and revved effortlessly. It may be time to put my Crown Vic out to pasture. The only problem is I may also have to sell my race car and trailer to make room in the garage to park it next to my 99 Lightning........

 

hey TOM,
Did it have a supercharger on it?
Noelvm

 

300hp 4.6L 300 ft/lbs, not enough for me, wish they could have crammed the 5.4L in there.

http://www.bonforums.com/marauder_announcement.htm

 

No blower on it.

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2000 Red Lightning
95 Saleen S-351 Convertible/Triple Black
97 Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Classic

 

MRBBQMAN, Yea, the cops wanted the 5.4 too. Seems a redesign from the firewall forward is required. Also Fords CAFE numbers are horrible because they use too many 5.4s already. They don't want to do it.
noelvm

 

AW *****. It was suppose to have a blower. That means its just another doggy mustang that probably won't even make 250 hp at the rear wheels. Not a threat to anything. How boring....Ford had a chance to save the Mercury line and they blew it. What a bunch of jerks.
noelvm

 

I'm excited about it too. Maybe I'm old too.LOL(31) Lets reserve judgement until we see how it performs. Sure, I wanted to see the navigator motor in it to,but it's not going to happen. It will be interesting to see how the cobra motor responds to an automatic. I'm hoping the forged internals will carry over from the the Cobra. I'm thinking high 14s. A blower on it would be a great ride. We've all seen how those cobras respond to blowers!
Tom

 

Kinda reminiscent of the late model Impala SS...too bad it won't be out until '03

 

does it weigh more than the L. Phooey. who wants a high 14 second car to go with a 12 second truck. If it can't outrun a WS6 its worthless. Looks to be about 100 horsepower short and we all know the trouble Ford had with this engine in the Cobra. Thats why they quit making it because they couldn't get any horsepower out of it. It's a DOG. I thought perhaps with the blower they had found a way to make it hum. I guess with all the problems they've had with the Lightning blowers made'em gunshy. Too bad. Another almost was that isn't. I wonder if you can buy one without an engine and transmission. I'll bet theres a way to put the L's 5.4 in it.
noelvm

 

Ken-ny Brown, Ken-ny Brown, Ken-ny Brown....