Re: Mercury full-sized muscle
Well, if you look at the roofline, you can see they're the same car.
You're confusing some terminology, though:
The XL is a Ford. A Marauder is a Mercury.
The XL-GT is a Ford. A Marauder X-100 is a Mercury.
Both the XL and the Marauder continued into 1970.
Regarding "who would buy one?" I can tell you that, when it comes to 1969 XLs, they made 404 XL "SportsRoof" hardtops with the 429/4-speed combo, which isn't as rare as one would initially think.
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