Mercury Sable News

Yes, the trusty, hunk-of-junk car had eked out 150,000 miles before Freddie O'Connell's girlfriend left it in his care, but when the hand-me-down '95 Mercury Sable threatened to empty O'Connell's thinly padded wallet, he decided it was time to rethink his approach to urban transportation.

The Ford brand, which continues to outpace the overall industry's quality improvement, now has posted eight consecutive years of gains in the closely watched quality study based on consumer evaluations after the first three months of new-vehicle ownership.

New vehicles sold by Chrysler, Ford and GM's domestic brands have improved in initial quality by an average of 10% compared with 2008, but Toyota Motor Corp.

Harry Potter, the teen wizard whose films have generated billions of dollars and become one of Hollywood's biggest franchises, is known for battling the evil Lord Voldemort.

Q: I have a 1995 Mercury Sable with 105,000 miles. It sits in a garage in Florida, sometimes for several months.

As the Big Three flirt with the prospect of collapse, some diehards recommend buying nothing but U.S. cars.

Nevada high school student Perla Cervantes is driven to read. And now she's got a new ride, too.

A Sparks High School student has read her way to a new ride. She just can't drive it yet.

Tribune/Debra Reid - A friend congratulates Perla Cervantes, 14, after the Sparks High student won a 1990 Mercury Sable in the "Read for the Ride" contest.

Despite rumors that the Mercury brand may follow Plymouth , Pontiac , and Oldsmobile into the dust bin of history, Ford officials told me that the company has no such plans, and, in fact, that new Mercury product will be unveiled at some point in the not-too-distant future.

General Motors is planning for bankruptcy, and a source close to the company says a quick sale of the company's healthy assets are in the works.

Production of the Mercury Sable will on Thursday for the second time ever, leaving the Ford division with just four models.

On Wednesday, April 29, the man and woman pictured went to Target on State Road 7 and Lantana Road in Lake Worth.

Jasper County Commissioners today directed Blake Wolf, the attorney for the commission, and Tony Moehr, health director, to begin work on a new county ordinance to set age restrictions for people going into bars.

I am sickened to read that certain right-wing political figures and U. S. senators, including the right-wing senator from Missouri, liken investigating and holding accountable those at the top who ordered torturing people in U.S. custody to "banana republic" type of action.

If you have teenage drivers, the Ford Motor Company is hoping you will like their new option designed to rein in the worst of their behavior.

The St Clair County Sheriffs Department has yet to find the man who robbed a branch of Citizens State Bank Dec.

Look for an especially sleek BMW Z4 Roadster for 2010. As Car and Driver reports, a heavily revised Z4 will lose its cloth top and get a retractable hardtop to go with all-new sheet metal.

According to Captain Troy Elwell, the Aiken County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred around midnight at the Waffle House located at 105 Frontage Road, in Aiken, SC.

At the 2008 Detroit Auto Show , Ford unveiled the Explorer America concept. It was a car-based crossover concept that, in theory, would improve efficiency versus the once popular body-on-frame Explorer SUV.