That's what happens when your major fan support buys their car second hand,
relying on fleet sales to keep it alive and available at a low second hand price.
A nice car that lived way beyond its time that became a victim of FWD rationalization....
Ford stopped private sales of the Crown Victoria quite a few years ago. I thought it was getting the can because it didn't meet side impact safety standards or something? Needs some kind of safety feature that Ford can't fit into it. Something like that. Otherwise I dare say they would keep churning them out. The platform was 15 years old when it was first released