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My Introduction To Panther Love: Inaugural Police Interceptor Road Trip!
Back in 2004, I was doing a typical East Bay highway commute to my job writing software documentation. Ten miles each way in a Tercel (I had my choice of an ’85 wagon or a ’90 hatch), and the...
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Capsule Review: Ford Police Interceptor
Unlike most of the TTAC community, I am something of a Panther agnostic. To me, the venerable rear-drive Ford sedans are like cigarette ads in back issues of Car and Driver – a quaint relic of an era...
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CAW Update: Ford Offering $50,000 Buyouts, No New Jobs At Chrysler
With negotiations between the CAW moving as quick as a French bureaucrat, Ford is offering eligible workers a new car and a $50,000 buyout as an early retirement gift, while Chrysler is offering the...
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Vengeful Scam On Legit Repo Man or Crooked Repo Man Selling Stolen Car? You...
The world of towed-away cars can be a harsh one, as our very own Steven Lang often points out. Today I heard the latest in a long series of tales from the often-penumbral world of towing and...
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NHTSA Not On Board With Panther Love
While we normally avoid recall related stories here at TTAC, our beloved (well, not by me, really) Panthers get so little love elsewhere, we figure we may as well bring this to your attention. NHTSA...
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Capsule Review: Ford Crown Victoria P71 – Bulletproof Edition
Photo shamelessly stolen from here because I can’t actually show the one I drove. Prior to my current posh post, last year I was posted in the now defunct TTAC Caribbean bureau. It was in Curacao, a...
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Greek Gods and Dead Presidents: Why Ford Doesn’t Care About Making “Real”...
Please welcome TTAC reader John Mohr (username J.Emerson) and his guest contribution to our site In 2004, my family decided to replace our soon-to-be-off-lease Ford Focus Wagon with another Ford...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2004 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, American Flag...
Ford Panthers are easy to find in American self-service wrecking yards, to put it mildly, and the most common Panther of them all is the P71 Police Interceptor version of the Crown Victoria. I...
View ArticleRare Rides: 2008 Edsel Citation – A Tribute via Victoria
What do you get when you cross an enthusiast of a dead car brand, a bank account, and a late-model Panther? This. Presenting the 2008 Edsel Citation: Today’s Rare Ride started out in life as a 2008...
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