“I have the base model with the standard four-cylinder and the six-speed automatic and couldn’t be happier with it. The car is extremely comfortable, luxurious and good-looking, and given all the features that come as standard equipment, it represents an amazing value. My car has all the power that I want or need, yet it’s never yielded less than 29 mpg after combined city and highway driving.
“The only things I’d like to see Mercury change is to replace the hood prop rod with gas struts and to make the five-spoke, 17-inch wheel covers real alloys instead of wheel covers over five-spoke steel wheels.”