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Mercury Sable Archive
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CC Capsule: 1990 Mercury Sable LS Wagon – The Shape You Want To Be In
Posted on February 18, 2025 | 72 Comments(First Published 4/2/2015) It’s hard to imagine that the original Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable will be turning thirty by year’s end. At the time of their release, this duo’s smooth aero styling […] -
Future Curbside Classics: 2008-2009 Mercury Sable – New Doors Closed
Posted on April 11, 2022 | 52 Comments(first posted 4/11/2016) Although it always lived in the shadows of its more popular Ford Taurus sibling, the Mercury Sable was nonetheless a significant and successful model in itself, helping […] -
Curbside Classic: 1996-99 Mercury Sable – A Messenger Carrying An Illegible Message
Posted on December 23, 2021 | 96 Comments(first posted 12/23/2015) Has there ever been an American brand as enduringly ill-defined as Mercury? A non-existent brand identity and a seemingly nebulous mission left the messenger brand as a […] -
Top 10 Obscure Special Editions and Forgotten Limited-Run Models: Lincoln-Mercury Edition, Part II
Posted on October 11, 2021 | 58 Comments(first posted 10/11/2015) Just a few days ago, we looked at 5 rare Lincoln-Mercury models. Who would have thought that a luxury division that has generally had a small lineup […] -
Curbside Classic: 1996-99 Ford Taurus Wagon – Making Over A Family Friend
Posted on April 21, 2021 | 116 Comments(first posted 4/21/2015) After a very safe mid-cycle enhancement of the first Taurus in 1992, Dick Landgraff and his team were seeking to recreate the excitement the inaugural Taurus’s design […] -
Curbside Classic: 1992 Mercury Sable GS – Successful By Any Measure
Posted on November 20, 2020 | 97 Comments(first posted 11/20/2014) It is difficult to remember a time when the best-selling car in the United States wasn’t an Accord or Camry. For the past seventeen years, these Japanese […] -
CC Outtake/QOTD: 1994 Mercury Sable GS – What’s Your Preferred Interior Color?
Posted on October 18, 2019 | 48 CommentsThere was once a time when car interiors could be ordered in just about any color under the rainbow. Peaking during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with luxury cars, one […] -
CC Outtake: Imagine Yourself In A Mercury
Posted on June 1, 2016 | 16 CommentsIt’s no overstatement to say that Ford stylists went overly ovoid on a global basis in the mid-1990s, with cars such as the 1994 Scorpio, 1995 Contour, 1996 Taurus, 1997 Escort, […]