Question Of The Day: Crown Vic or Camry?

Jonny Lieberman
by Jonny Lieberman

As a number of you saw, I drove and review the 2010 Ford Mustang GT. I really liked it. Good car, etc. Naturally, of course, I expected TTAC’s so called “Best and Brightest” to discuss the finer points of my review. After all, Ford has sold nine million Mustangs and I just called the new one the best ever. This after they put me up in a fancy-schmantz hotel and fed me great food and free booze. More scandalously, the new for 2010 Mustang still sports a (gasp) live rear end. And I loved it. Glowing review, etc. But, instead of focusing on the latest pony car from my friends at the Blue Oval, the conversation degenerated into, “My Crown Vic can out tow your Camry.” No, really — that’s what people were talking about. And you know, if that’s what the people want, that’s what we’re going to give ’em. In the blue corner, hailing from Georgetown, Kentucky and weighing in at 3,280 lbs, the sleeper from the far east, the barbiturate to my Viagra, sexless on wheels, Toyota Camry! And in the red corner, a car so great it’s no longer sold to the public (unless you live in Kuwait), featuring both Watt’s linkage and a four-speed automatic, the car that’s older than some of our readers, Ford Crown Vic! Let’s make this a fair fight. And then let’s never speak of either car again.

Jonny Lieberman
Jonny Lieberman

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  • Psarhjinian Psarhjinian on Dec 16, 2008
    Here’s the real question, why are there are there a disproportionate amount of really tall people on TTAC? Tall people are smarter, multitalented, morally superior, more compassionate and better looking. And modest, too
  • BlueBrat BlueBrat on Dec 16, 2008

    I'll stand up at 6'3" to psarhjinian's answer.

  • Bunter1 Bunter1 on Dec 16, 2008

    I feel like a 6 foot dwarf. Bunter (the small)

  • Anonymous Anonymous on Dec 16, 2008

    Phil Ressler's write-up shows why the Panther wins. There is nothing to love about the Camry. It's a car for people who don't like cars. The Panther is for people who are interested in and like cars. And as Sajeev pointed out so eloquently, it has a brick-house swagger that no other car made today has.

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