These Are Unstoppable! Most Reliable Car on the Road Today!

Hey Wizard! Thanks for the professional inspection! I have a lot of out of town buyers inquiring on this car and decided to go ahead pay to do a PPI for them. I am actually doing my detailed YouTube video overview on my channel this afternoon and will upload today as well. Who will be the next owner of this special car?

I took your advice a few years ago and purchased a 2011 Town Car. I had one incident with it when driving on the I70. The engine ran rough and check engine light started flashing. I took it to two mechanics. One just threw parts at it and didn't fix it. The other ran tests and declared that one of the cylinders had zero compression. He suggested junking the car as it wasn't worth an engine rebuild or replacement. I took it home and tore off the valve cover. One of the valve springs had broken, explaining the zero compression. I used a borescope to view the piston and saw no damage. I purchased a valve spring compression tool for just this engine and replaced the spring myself. Engine has been running fine with no codes for many thousands of miles since. All that said, you were right!

I'm a cabbie, and we drive these for a reason. We had a Grand Marquis we got over 700k out of, typically these will run 4-500k, they tend to get wrecked before they wear out. My current cab is an 09 crown Vic, it has 90k on it and drives like a brand new car. No rattles or squeaks, I put 420 miles on it tonight, no problems whatsoever.

A friend of mine got his daughter one of those for college. Coming home for Christmas two years ago, she and a friend were struck by an 18-wheeler in Pennsylvania on I80. The Grand Marquis went through a guardrail and down a 300 ft embankment. Car destroyed. The girls walked away. It took her a month but she found another one. Her friend also bought one.

I've got a Lincoln Town Car and I can't agree more. Car is an absolute tank, reliable as ever, comfortable, and fairly easy to work on. Parts are cheap and easy to find. And if you smoke a deer on an old backroad you can 9 times out of 10 drive it home. And as an added bonus you have enough room to put the entire deer comfortably in the trunk and still have room for a spare tire.

8 and half years ago I bought a 2006 Town Car with 440,000 miles for $900. Im still driving it daly with 520,000 miles on it now. Most of the repairs (if not all) range in the $100 to $200 range for parts. The Panther Platform is the most reliable car ever built in my opinion. And also (at least with the Lincoln) the heater core can be replaced without pulling the dash out!!!

I love these Panther Platform cars! My 2007 Town Car had 465,000 miles on it and still had 181 compression with the original nonrebuilt engine or transmission in it. The Panther Platform first came out in 1979 and went until 2010 for civilians and 2011 were for fleet services.

A local used car lot had one of these on the lot with 60k miles, 1999. Tried to convince all my broke college student friends to buy it and none of them were convinced. I picked it up for five grand and have been driving it for a year. I really enjoy it.

I just acquired my dad's 2006 Town Car, in the same color as yours. It's in great original condition, and I agree with everything you've said here. The car isn't exciting or sporty, BUT it's drop-dead reliable, easy to service and fix and is by-far the most comfortable and quiet car I've ever driven, aside from a Rolls-Royce. I'm not a Ford guy, but I highly recommend these...

These were also used as NYC cabs before the Prius took over. Super reliable cars.

I drove a cab from '06 to '07, and we used the Ford Panther platform exclusively. Usually used cop Crown Vic's that we'd get at auction from the various police departments in the local area, with the occasional Town Car which we'd use for airport runs. When I left, the company had TWO of these cars with over SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES on them -- still with the ORIGINAL engines and transmissions! It was VERY common to see these things go 350K to 400K before a major failure. In fact, it was unusual not to see one hit 400K before needing something big like an engine or transmission. They built the platform for so long that they had literally decades to work out all the bugs. Utterly bulletproof!

Just bought one of these! 2002 Grand Marquis with 49,000k miles on it. I love it so much, couldn't be happier with my purchase. It's a beautiful blue color, luxurious inside, and I get to use my cassette collection on the road!

I bought an 04' Grand Marquis for $3000 based on your previous video. From a used car dealer, rebuilt engine yanked from a junkyard,, odometer not working, air only blows out of the dash and this car just won't quit. Multiple round trips from DFW to MPLS at 70 mph. Gotta love it.

I’ve had over 9 cars in the past 10 years. Mustangs, diesel pickups, Toyota Tacoma. Out of all of them the one I’ve kept the longest and drive every single day is my 2006 mercury grand marquis. Hands down the best car I’ve ever owned. Dead reliable is an understatement. Averages 23-25 mpg highway. Mine is approaching 200k miles. I’ll drive it until it needs to be scrapped. I can’t explain how much I love these cars. Best cars ever made.

My step brother's dad bought a '93 Grand Marquis from an old lady for about $1,500. It only had 32,000 miles on it. All Church and grocery miles. Garage kept it's entire life. Thing was the mintest Panther I have ever seen. Then he traded it for a non running RV with a broken windshield and all the mold in the world. I offered to buy it for $2,000, but he really wanted that dumb RV. And after a month of trying to get it liveable/running, code enforcement told him to get rid of it. So he sold it for like $500. You could imagine how mad I was. We don't talk no more..

These are actually great first cars for young drivers, especially those who have a desire to learn and do their own maintenance. You can swap pretty much any small modular Ford V8 into this platform. You can throw in power adders, bolt ons or just leave it bone stock for longevity. It rarely breaks down, but it’s like a 15-45 minute fix if does break. This is probably the best platform since the Chevy Caprice or possibly better because it’s easier to get parts and the transmission and fuel system are bulletproof.

We just bought a 2001 Grand Marquis LS after watching this video and reading about them. It was a one-owner, estate sale car with 11,400 actual miles. Always garaged, looks almost new inside, outside, and underneath. Paid $7k, and we love it! Thank you, Car Wizard!

That owner took impeccable care of this vehicle. Man, it looks nice. I was very impressed by the ease of maintenance that was pointed out. I had a 1996 Toyota Corolla for 25 years and 360,000+ miles. I had handle-operated windows at a time when it had become an oddity. That was my standard of good and low-maintenance and reliable car. It never stranded me. It was the body that gave out, not the engine.

I used to deliver parts to a limo company who exclusively used town cars from this era. He did all his own maintenance on a good schedule. He had a town car with original engine and trans that had over 740,000 miles on it. He even started it up to show me that it still ran, and it ran great. A bit of oil smoke on cold start, but that was it. Was literally shocking to me that they can go that long.

Agreed. I had a crown Vic. Sold it to a brother. Had a grand marquis. Took a terrible wreck to stop it. Bothe vehicles treated me very well and it was easy to do all my own upkeep. I was very upset when I heard that they’d decided to stop producing them. Great vid!