{"id":1557,"date":"2006-09-14T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/paralegals_on_deliveries_overlook_17_mpg_to_pay_homage_to_a_great_vehicle.html"},"modified":"2006-09-14T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T17:31:33","slug":"paralegals_on_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/paralegals_on_d.html","title":{"rendered":"Paralegals On Deliveries Overlook 17 MPG To Pay Homage To A Great Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News has the headline of the day — “Ford to Town Car: Drop Dead”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the aspiring Wall Street titan or the mobster looking to make an impression (or maybe dump a body), the Lincoln Town Car is the ride of choice.<\/p>\n

Now it could be the end of the road for the smooth-riding sedan that’s as familiar to New Yorkers as yellow cabs and Ford Crown Victoria police cars and has been part of the city’s landscape for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n

To cut costs, Ford is expected to close the Michigan plant where the Town Car is built — and hasn’t committed to building it beyond next year.<\/p>\n

“The black cabs are a part of New York just like the old Checker cab,” said James McCowen, 23, a Manhattan paralegal. “I would hate to see them go away.”<\/p>\n

“They’re really nice cars,” added Alex Weiss, an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers who uses a car service at least four times a month. “It’s spacious, the leather seats are nice and it’s just a nice ride.”<\/p>\n

Drivers love them, too.<\/p>\n

“This car is No. 1,” said veteran driver Mike Ali, 44, of Staten Island, whose 1999 Town Car has 194,343 miles on the odometer. “It runs forever and, if I need to fix it, I can fix it for cheap.”<\/p>\n

Ali said he is not impressed with the cars likely to take the Town Car’s place — Ford’s Mercury Grand Marquis or DaimlerChrysler’s Chrysler 300. “I don’t think any of us would think of switching,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Meanwhile, Battery Park City residents probably won’t shed any tears for the beasts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News has the headline of the day — “Ford to Town Car: Drop Dead”: For the aspiring Wall Street titan or the mobster looking to make an impression (or maybe dump a body), the Lincoln Town Car is the ride of choice. Now it could be the end of the road for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}