Rental Car Review: Mercury Milan

[Midlife]

I flew into Harrisburg, PA airport with a Hertz reservation, and they gave me a black Mercury Milan with leather interior and Sirius radio. I must say, the car was extremely comfortable, easy to drive fast, and enjoyable. 28 mpg+ on the Turnpike isn't shabby at all.

One complaint: I rolled down the window in the AM first thing when I pulled out of the parking lot, and dew came crashing into the passenger compartment! There's no driprail!

The dashboard was very interesting: it was lit up regardless of daytime or nighttime.

It's a shame Mercury is going away.

 

[Jonk67]

Sounds like a nice ride, wait until you try a new Taurus...3.5V6, paddle shifters on the wheel, interior is great. I had a Lincoln MkZ one rental and far as I can tell the Taurus is the same car with fewer bells/whistles and a ford badge. Test drive one, it ain't the old turd shaped Taurus anymore...
I ask for them and wait if they don't have one when I walk out now. If I were going to buy a new family car/business car it would be my first test drive right now.
Jon

 

[Midlife]

I like the Taurus as well, but two things turn me off: (1) the extremely high rear end of the car, and (2) no clutch option.

 

[Flysure1]

Hey Randy, you should buy one and tarp it away in storage, in 50 or 60 years it will be quite collectable! :amaz

 

[AzPete]

Hey Randy, you should buy one and tarp it away in storage, in 50 or 60 years it will be quite collectable! :amaz

He has run out of room because his '66 is in that condition.........in storage.

 

[Jonk67]

I like the Taurus as well, but two things turn me off: (1) the extremely high rear end of the car, and (2) no clutch option.

Mine was a rental so I hadn't looked into a manual option but I can tell you that putting it into 'M' and using the paddle shifters to bounce it off the 7K rev limiter 1,2,3 was pretty fun even w/o a clutch to press!
Jon

 

[JeffTepper]

At the other end of the Mercury spectrum, I recently rented a Grand Marquis for a quick trip to LA....700 miles round trip in one day. My summary: A solid freway cruiser........a land yacht from yesteryear. IIRC, it got 24 mpg on that trip (per the trip computer). Several weeks prior to that, I rented a Cadillac DTS while in SoCal for 9 days. That car was surprisingly pleasant (communicative steering, solid brakes, enough grunt under the hood to move itself at 21 mpg) even when loaded with 5 adults and all our luggage (which was most of the time). IMHO a much better alternative to a minivan when comfortably carrying 5 adults plus a full load of luggage. Surprisingly, the base daily rate on that car through Enterprise was something like $43 which I consider quite reasonable.