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2001 Ford Crown Victoria
About the 1998–2011 Ford Crown Victoria
from the generation archive
The 1998 model year brought a thorough update of the Ford Crown Victoria, the rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame Panther sedan shared in platform with the Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car. For 1998 Ford revised the rear suspension to a Watt's-linkage layout, added aluminum front control arms, fitted larger brakes with dual-piston front calipers, and standardized 16-inch wheels. The 4.6L SOHC two-valve modular V8 rose to 200 horsepower with single exhaust and 215 horsepower with the dual-exhaust high-output tune, then to 220 and 235 horsepower for 2001-2002. The most significant chassis change came for 2003, when Ford fitted a fully boxed, partly hydroformed frame and replaced the long-running recirculating-ball steering with rack and pinion, raising civilian output to 224 and 239 horsepower. Two variants defined the run: the LX Sport, offered from 2001 with the dual-exhaust engine, a firmer suspension, a floor-shifted console, and larger wheels, and the Police Interceptor, the P71 fleet car that gained the "Police Interceptor" name and badge for 1999 and reached 250 horsepower for 2004 through 2011. Ford ended United States retail sales after 2008 and built the final Crown Victoria for fleet and export in September 2011.
The story
I've got the police interceptor model, and it was a taxi after it was a police car, so I don't know yet what all has been done to it (added or taken off). I've only owned the car for a couple weeks and haven't done anything to it personally.
The person I bought it off had put HID's in the front, which I'm not sure if I like yet, and left the system in it. Two 10's and a double DIN deck that plays DVD's. It's a TKO Audio which I don't like at all, it's overly complicated to install, and after having some battery issues is all in Japanese now and I can't figure out how to get it back to English. — trippin7464
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