Final Two New York Crown Vic Taxis Face Retirement

[silvrsvt]

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[Bob Rosadini]

20 minutes ago, silvrsvt said:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles/final-two-new-york-crown-vic-taxis-face-retirement/?fbclid=IwAR0rHYIFyxMa5Wym7I_KeiE_P3mSc8dMdWl9kQ7AE3d3Jp_tNMTCfV03YvM_aem_AZsjMEiMdic92K69H0-APFf5qfxsdOsshf9i8OmRH5xfkiRc1C-vqbKgdeOV0nP3JJQ

Can you imagine a P71 with a Coyote/10 speed?

[DeluxeStang]

10 minutes ago, Bob Rosadini said:

Can you imagine a P71 with a Coyote/10 speed?

They'd sell 2 cars,maybe 3 if they offered a stick shift. 

[Bob Rosadini]

19 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:

They'd sell 2 cars,maybe 3 if they offered a stick shift. 

Not talking about today's market...talking about the p-71 in its prime.  I think the police  4.6 was 250 HP.

[DeluxeStang]

4 hours ago, Bob Rosadini said:

Not talking about today's market...talking about the p-71 in its prime.  I think the police  4.6 was 250 HP.

But the prime of the crown Vic was the early 2000s. Neither the 5.0 or 10 speed existed back then. It's a fun thought exercise, but if Ford was going to make the effort to make a 5.0/10 speed sedan, it would make far more sense to design that as a performance car from the ground up.

 

Most people I've talked to said the crown Vic was kinda a shit box at being anything more than an old school cruiser. Doubling the horsepower would just turn that chassis into an undrivable smoke machine that wasn't that much faster, it wouldn't be able to put the power down, it would be like a hellcat but worse in terms of having unusable levels of power. 

 

Now if Ford had out the 5.0 and 10 speed into the AWD Tarus sho, they would have had something. But that probably couldn't happen due to the packaging constraints of a modern, cramped platform engineered with transverse compact engines in mind. 

[7Mary3]

You guys forgot about the '03-'04 Mercury Marauder?

 

 

[70 Stang]

2 hours ago, 7Mary3 said:

You guys forgot about the '03-'04 Mercury Marauder?

 

 

My Dad had one.....nice car!

 

[GearheadGrrrl]

There's a couple guys autocrossing an ex-police Crown Vic PI, brought it to the national championships this year and on "all season" tires and they didn't quite finish last. They're advocating for a class for the CVPI and other retired police cars on real street tires as a low cost entry point to racing.

[rperez817]

17 minutes ago, GearheadGrrrl said:

There's a couple guys autocrossing an ex-police Crown Vic PI, brought it to the national championships this year and on "all season" tires and they didn't quite finish last. They're advocating for a class for the CVPI and other retired police cars on real street tires as a low cost entry point to racing.

 

That would be cool! And even if the Crown Vic autocrossers do finish last, they can still be champions of the "neutral drop" ?

 

[HotRunrGuy]

There's also the Spec-Panther series,,,,,,,

 

https://autointerests.com/spec-panther

 

HRG

[The Handler]

I really miss seeing them on the streets. Nobody makes a sedan with a formal roofline and long decklid anymore. 

[Joe771476]

Who is the bureaucrat who came up with the 7 year rule? Wasteful and costly. Stop wasting our resources!

[rperez817]

4 hours ago, Joe771476 said:

Who is the bureaucrat who came up with the 7 year rule? 

 

NYC Taxicab and Limousine Commission. Vehicle Inspections - TLC (nyc.gov)