Mercury Mountaineer

Mercury Mountaineer

The Mercury Mountaineer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufactured by the Mercury brand name and owned by the Ford Motor Company from 1997 until the brand's demise in 2011.

Mercury Mountaineer

The Mountaineer shares many features with the Ford Explorer, and in terms of hardware, the vehicles are virtually identical.[1] Externally, they are styled somewhat differently, and the Mountaineer is positioned with a more upscale interior, with the Mountaineer's MSRP

Mercury Mountaineer

Although the redesigned Explorer had already been out for two years, Mercury introduced an Explorer twin called the Mountaineer. The Mountaineer was only slightly different from the Explorer,

Mercury Mountaineer

Car and Driver proved that a large amount of the rollovers were caused by poor techniques of drivers overreacting to the tire blow out.[1] Their test driver deemed the vehicle so inherently stable that he drove "no hands" during one of their 70 mph tread separation simulations.