Just so you don't get the wrong idea about the US, the vast majority of people would never personally purchase such a car. First off, the Mercury Marauder is a slightly upscale version of the Ford Crown Victoria (I have no idea why it's called that). 90% of the Crown Vics you see on the road are police vehicles. Another 5% are fleet vehicles. The remaining 5% are owned by octogenarians. It's actually kind of useful, as it's usually pretty easy to pick out the police by the car, as there are very few other cars that they use. (Unfortunately, they've discontinued the Crown Vic, and there's no obvious police-only replacement.)

Anyway, the Mercury Marauder was only made for two years and there were only 11,000 made, total. (In comparison, the Lincoln Town Car, which is the "very" upscale version of the same body, sold well over 100,000 for the same two years. Comparing the sales numbers of the Crown Vic is not valid since so many were fleet vehicles. And Ford's best selling automobile is the F-Series pickup truck, which sells about 80,000 a month.)