I know people always tend to want to buy smaller cars with good gas mileage but you can't beat the dependability of a Mercury Grand Marquis. Of course I don't know how old you are and you may say that's a 'grandma's car' but my son as a teen loved it. This is our second one. Our first lasted to I think 180,000 miles before it got a cracked head and someone bought it like that. Now I have one at 140,000 that I am just having to do regular maintenance on it. The alternator went out today. But nothing major has happened. Just a thought you may not have considered.