It's a question few are asking the day after Ford announced that Mercury – named after the "messenger of the gods" in Roman mythology – would wind down production after 70 years of business.

In the mid-1930s, Ford executives realized the company was missing out on a lucrative opportunity in the domestic car market: the mid-tier range vehicle. Mercury was explicitly conceived to fill ...

Through parts of the 1990s, the Mercury Grand Marquis' sales closely mirrored its similar Ford counterpart, the Crown Victoria. The design of the Grand Marquis was updated in 1998, 2003 and for the ...

It was a 1987 Mercury Sable LS station wagon ... As evidence, the paperwork included numerous receipts for Ford parts, right down to Blue Oval nuts and bolts. There were copies of Ford blueprints ...