[Shotimes] (OT) Marauder

[John Miller]

> They are reasonably good looking.  They have a good engine with
> potential.   It seems that they would be good cars, and they probably are
> within their  limits.  We like the SHO with ATX.  It seems that the
> Marauder would have  increased doses of some of the good characteristics
> of the SHO-

But it's vastly larger, too heavy, and the floppy Watts-link stick-axle 
Crown Vic rear suspension may be better than the earlier four-link Crown 
Vic rear suspension, but it's still a marginal design with big rubber 
bushings, and lateral links with lots of twists and turns in them.

The four-link-plus-Watts stick-axle rear that Ford had been using on the 
Aussie Falcon since the late '70s was a far better design, with straight, 
rigid links and small bushings, and that's now been phased out - all 
Falcons, right down to the 6-cyl rentacar models that sell for the 
equivalent of US$18K, are IRS now.

John.