2005 Mercury Montego: A Senior Moment

[RagingBITCH]

Harsh Review

This sums it up nicely:

At a time of general excellence in automotive design and construction, when even cheap cars so easily vault buyer expectations, it is a rare and perverse pleasure to find a car as certifiably doggy as the Mercury Montego.

A car whose lack of charisma is so dense no light can escape its surface, the Montego is the Mercury Division's upscale twin to the Ford Five Hundred sedan, though the Montego's version of upscale is of the Korean off-shore casino variety. The faux wood-grain interior trim looks like it came off a prison lunch tray. I've felt better leather upholstery on footballs.

But this is not a case of a car nibbled to death by details. Overall, the car has a profoundly geriatric feeling about it, like it was built with a swollen prostate. To drive this car is to feel the icy hand of death upon you, or at least the icy hand of Hertz, because it simply screams rental.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Overall, the car has a profoundly geriatric feeling about it, like it was built with a swollen prostate. To drive this car is to feel the icy hand of death upon you, or at least the icy hand of Hertz, because it simply screams rental.

:Q

 

[SWScorch]

ouch, man, ouch. Can't say it looks like a car anyone can be excited about though.

 

[b0mbrman]

Yeowch.

I've seen plenty of ads for that car all over the net's car sites...looks like they didn't sell this reporter though

 

[nakedfrog]

Why would someone get that instead of the Grand Marquis? Just for the AWD and CVT?

 

[OS]

lol, yeah i was reading this article the other day, that qoute was awesome.

 

[slick230]

Mercury division should be put out of it's misery. They could have done something good with the Marauder, but it was underpowered and slow. And when they brought the Cougar back, they crapped it up by making a FWD pig based off the Contour chassis.

Drag Mercury out to a field, tie it to a tree, and shoot it. It's the humane thing to do.