3: 1983 Mercury Lynx
Ford has long done platform sharing between vehicles and the Mercury Lynx was an example of this. Sharing components with the Escort the Lynx was marketed as a luxury appointed version. Reddit user reddog71 told the story of his Lynx. “It was a 1983 Mercury Lynx station wagon... Color-wise, it would have been tan if it had merely been painted — but instead, it had that fake woodgrain paneling that had been thought extinct since the Brady Bunch went off the air in the mid-70s.
“I’d have been embarrassed had I not been waiting upwards of six years for a car of my own. Never was “beggars can’t be choosers” more true. Unfortunately, it had bad engine problems. Just braking to a stop, allowing the engine to “rev down” to “idle,” was enough to make it stall. I had it in the shop six times in the first five weeks I owned it, and I don’t remember that they ever got it fixed; a friend of mine who worked friends into science fiction stories even wrote a quick vignette about me getting it back from the dealer in a possessed, evil, homicidal and carnivorous state. “