nerth shore news | Big cars | popular From page 34 Mercury Grand Marquis starts at $32,895 (up from -$31,995 last year). The uplevel LS model is $34,395 (up trom $33,095), Changes and refinements for 1998 - include a styling makeover, a freshened interior, a little more horsepower, 3 revised -rear suspension, new 16 inch tires, bigger front brakes, and a new all-speed traction con- trol system, The 1998 Grand Marquis has a larger, bolder. grille, larger headlamps, a more for- mal roofline, and bigger, wrapover rear taillights — in all, it looks more distinctive, yet still conservative. - Inside, there’s a standard six-passenger interior with . AUTO ample headragm and legroom tor five passengers — the centre fron: passenger has restricted legroom because of the dash shape. A new wood-trimmied dash his a traditional flat surface rather than one which reach- es out to the driver. This makes the radio hard re reach without leaning forwards. Two slide-out cupholders under the dash are useful, but with cups in place, the heater conarols are obscured. I didn’t like the optional luminescent green digital speedometer, but my video- game-playing son did. Fortunately, it’s oprianal. Unlike most sedans nowa- days, the rear windows go all the way down. The standard powerplanz is a single overhead cam 4.6- licre. V8 engine. For 1998, horsepower has been increased from 190 to 200. With the optional “Handling Package,” which includes stiffer shocks, a rear air sus- pension, bigger tires, alloy wheels and dual exhausts, horsepower goes up to 215. The engine now has a fail- safe cooling system to pre- vent engine damage in case of coolant loss. Fuel consumption aver- ages 13.6 litres per 100 km (21 o-p.g.) in the city and 8.6 litres per 100 km (22 nup.g.}. on the highway — better than V8's of ald, but not as good as a typical V6 engine. All models come with a smooth-shifting four-speed automatic transmission with 2 colunin shifter. 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