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This was an even worst kept secret than the new 5.0L engine was last year. Mercury's impending demise was obvious when it came out there would be no Mercury version of the new Taurus, new Explorer, and that the Crown Vic/Grand Marques were going to be replaced with nothing.

Interesting how they went about it, not shuttering the division all at once like GM has done, but simply letting it die one model at a time over several years by simply not replacing stuff at the end if its natural model cycle.

At the very least, it is further proof the badge engineering doesn't work anymore (if it ever did).