Ford will end production of Mercury vehicles in the fourth quarter of this year to fully devote its financial, product development, production and marketing, sales, and service resources toward ...

It’s a question few are asking the day after Ford announced that Mercury – named after the “messenger of the gods” in Roman mythology – would wind down production after 70 years of business. Why?

Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday afternoon in a press conference in Dearborn, Mich., that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of ...

Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of its divisions in an increasingly competitive ...

Major American automakers posted double-digit sales gains last month, but the industry’s recovery was not strong enough to save Ford Motor Co.’s Mercury brand. Ford said Wednesday it would shut down ...

The Ford Motor Company announced Wednesday that it plans to discontinue its Mercury division by the end of 2010. After an internal review of its operations, the automaker determined that growing the ...

Since the day he arrived at Ford Motor in 2006, Chief Executive Alan Mulally has been focused on trying to strengthen the company's namesake brand around the world. Now he wants to do the same with ...

Mercury built fewer than 520 of its rarest muscle car. It was made to race, not to sell. Collectors are finally paying ...

Ford Motor Company says sales of its Mercury brand are so dismal that it will stop making the cars this year. The automaker says it will divert the resources it was devoting to the ailing brand to ...

CNBC has learned that Ford executives are working on a plan to phase out the Mercury brand. There is no time line for how quickly the brand will be eliminated, but the Ford board of directors could ...

Ford originally launched its Mercury brand in 1938 under the direction of Edsel Ford and Ford Sales Manager Jack Davis. Named for the winged god of commerce in Roman mythology, it was intended to ...