<P> The Ford Crown Victoria (or simply Crown Vic) is a rear - wheel drive full - sized four - door sedan that was marketed and manufactured by Ford from the 1992 to the 2011 model years over two generations . Discontinued in 2011, the latter day Crown Victoria began production in 1991 at Ford's St. Thomas Assembly plant in Southwold, Ontario, Canada . Dropping its previous LTD prefix, Ford instead revived a nameplate once used on a two - door version of the Fairlane sold in the North American market for the 1955 model year . </P> <P> The Crown Victoria shared the Ford Panther platform and major powertrain, body, and suspension components with the Lincoln Town Car and Mercury Grand Marquis . Along with its rebadged Mercury and Lincoln variants, the Crown Victoria was the final full - frame rear - wheel - drive passenger sedan produced in North America . The durability associated with its layout popularized the Crown Victoria with taxicab owners and commonly used police patrol / pursuit vehicles in North America . </P> <P> The first use of the Crown Victoria nameplate by Ford was in the 1955 model year as part of the Ford Fairlane range . Separate from the Fairlane Victoria two - door hardtop, the Fairlane Crown Victoria was given its own B - pillared roofline, with a stainless - steel band "crowning" the roof, an interpretation of the "victoria carriage" bodystyle . The first time Ford used the "victoria" as a naming convention was in 1932 on the Ford Victoria 2 - door coupe and the larger Lincoln Victoria coupe . A variant of the Crown Victoria, the Crown Victoria Skyliner, replaced the front half of the roof with acrylic glass . For the 1956 model year, along with the rest of the Ford model line, the Fairlane Crown Victoria received the Lifeguard option package . </P> <P> For 1957, the Crown Victoria and Crown Victoria Skyliner were replaced as the flagship of the Ford Fairlane line by the retractable - hardtop Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner . </P>

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