Mercury retail production ends
Production of Mercury cars and SUVs for retail customers will end this Sunday, October 3, 2010, according to Ford Motor Company. The last retail 2011 Mercury Mariner will be built in Kansas City, says Fords sales analyst George Pipas.
More Mercurys will come off the production line by the end of the year, but those vehicles will go to fleet corporate or government operators or rental car agencies, not to individual customers.
In August, Ford built 9,039 new Mercury vehicles 2,976 Mariners, 3,399 Grand Marquis, 2,013 Milans and 651 Mountaineers. Mercury still outsold Lincoln by nearly 9% in total volume in that same month. Dealers will sell Mercurys to customers as long as the inventory lasts, according to Ford.
There were eleven Mercury franchise holders in the Metropolitan Washington area at the end of 2009, according to WANADA records. The franchise will cease to exist at the end of the year.
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