Tockalosh

Have you driven one ? Big lazy V8 capable of space ship type mileages, super quiet inside, ladder chassis so able to take a good smash, 2 bench seats, column change, huge boot for "chicken sausages" or bodies to be buried in the sand.

Awesome car, the ME got the last of the Mercury grand marquis and Crownies produced. Love em to death, sadly not available at your UAE Ford dealer and the UAE was the first bit of the GCC to stop importing them instead trying to flog that awful barge the 500

Only reason I know this because I wanted to buy one in 2008 when I landed in AD and Ford said No. They were still flogged in Bahrain in 2011

Tockalosh

Copy that. Ford Expedition, only mildly useful off road but ladder chassis, full side air bags and massive weight = better off in a shunt whichever way you look at it

FriendlyExpat

I agree, great in a shunt, but better hope you don't roll it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHFsmsGPDVc

flares

I remember driving past Premier Motors service centre in Mussaffah and seeing loads of new Crown Vics lined up. It was as if someone at Premier had ordered a load but decided they wouldn't sell. Deadstock if you like

I'd quite like a Lincoln Town Car and a gun

Tockalosh

Are you sure they weren't recovered abandoned vehicles from the great run for home rush of 2009 ?

Tockalosh

LPO finally raised for my Expedition yay. Come next Thursday I will be safe

I can barely see out of the window of my dusty Honda hire car. Couldn't bring myself to spend the dirhams on getting it washed

I found my last Expy went around corners like it was on rails by the way and far more stable than my company Prado will rolled around. Neither felt like it was going to roll over, just a big lean angle on the Prado

Tockalosh

Even though that's a first generation Expy I think it survived pretty well rolling over actually
Good lesson in why to wear a seat belt all the same

Tockalosh

And check out this video about what happens when a 4X4 hits a saloon car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_548slF6M

Expy has full curtain side airbags so my arm should still be hanging on.

flares

Yep they were all brand spankers with the bar code stickers that wouldn't get removed if the owners had their way. All silver too with a coat of dust. 10s of the. May have been a corporate order

csdf

Seems an unfair experiment -you've got the hard metal of the engine block of the 4x4 ramming into the soft side of the Civic. I would like to see the reverse where they ram the front of a Civic into the side of a 4x4.

Tockalosh

The bonnet will get stuck under my running boards and then an annoying bump as the rear wheels ride over the top of it. Could spill my café latte in the cup holder. How bloody annoying would that be ?
Still the yanks have thought of everything and the coffee will wipe of my leather seats without staining

jam25mack

A Ford would be close to the last make of car that I would ever buy.

Utter tripe the lot of em!