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Introduced as a Mercury-bodied car with a Ford dashboard, from 1965 onward, the Meteor line shared its body with the Ford Galaxie, adding Mercury exterior trim. After 1968, the Meteor brand was phased into the Mercury line in Canada, with the stand-alone Mercury Meteor discontinued after 1976. [ 1 ]
Meteor was a marque of automobiles offered by Ford Motor Company of Canada from 1949 to 1976. The make was retired for the 1962 and 1963 model years, when the name was used for the Mercury Meteor sold in the United States. It succeeded the Mercury 114, a Canadian-market Mercury based on the Ford, the "114" name being taken from the car's wheelbase.
The Meteor Rideau is a full-size automobile which was produced by Ford Motor Company of Canada under its Meteor brand. [1] It was produced from 1954 until 1961 [ 2 ] and from 1965 until 1976. It was named for the Rideau River , a river which drains into the Ottawa River in the Canadian capital, Ottawa .
Compact (1960–1965, 1971–1977), mid-size car (1966–1969) Meteor: 1961 1963 2 Full-size (1961), mid-size (1962–1963) S-55: 1962 1967 2 Full-size Marauder: 1963 2004 3 High performance version full-size car Cyclone: 1964 1971 5 Mid-range muscle car Cougar: 1967 2002 8 Pony car (1967–1973), personal luxury car (1974–1997), sports ...
In 1964, Meteor was revived in Canada (replacing the Mercury Monterey in the same market). Unlike previous Meteors, the 1964 model used a Mercury body rather than a Ford body. [55] For 1965, Meteors used revived Rideau and Montcalm model names [56] on Mercury bodies with Ford-style roofs. [55]
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Ford had purchased the name "Comet" from Comet Coach Company, a professional car manufacturer in which the term belonged to a line of funeral coaches, mainly Oldsmobiles. The coach company then was renamed Cotner-Bevington. In Canada, for the 1960 model year, Meteor-Mercury dealers sold a compact car called the "Frontenac".
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