NASCAR tracks at the time were mainly dirt tracks with modest barriers, and during the 1957 season a Mercury Monterey crashed into the crowd.

While Mercury had reached the minivan and SUV segments before a number of other foreign or domestic brands, by the time Mercury received a more competitive entry ( the Monterey, its version of the Ford Freestar ), the minivan segment was in decline.

The success of the Windstar led to the first Ford-developed Mercury minivan, the Mercury Monterey.

As to be expected, sister Mercury also received the SportsRoof in Monterey, Montclair, and Park Lane models.

The name change accommodated Ford's strategy to rename all their cars to words beginning in F. The Freestar and its twin, the Mercury Monterey, were built in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

For the 1950-1974 full-size car, see Mercury Monterey.

Final sale numbers for the Mercury Monterey after a three year run totaled 32, 195.

Sales of the Freestar in 2006 were down 20 percent from 2005, and its Mercury sibling, the Monterey, had seen sales slump 40 percent from 2005.

On April 26, 2006, McClatchy announced it was selling the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and St. Paul Pioneer Press to MediaNews Group ( with backing from the Hearst Corporation ) for $ 1 billion.

The highly detailed interior featured white bucket seats with black inserts both front and rear, matching door panels, black " carpeting " and a chrome-plated dashboard and console with legible gauges and radio dial resembling those in the Mercury Monterey.

The 1961 Ami 6 sedan is distinguished by an unusual reverse-raked rear window, similar to the " Breezeway " rear screen fitted to the 1963 Mercury Monterey in the US, or the 1959 Ford Anglia 105E in the UK.

The Mercury Marquis was introduced as a trim package on the 1967 Mercury Monterey.

* 2004 – 2007 Mercury Monterey

The Villager was unrelated to the Ford Aerostar, the Ford Windstar, the Ford Freestar or the Mercury Monterey ( 2004-2007 ).

Nissan pursued the development of the 2004 Nissan Quest while Mercury received a version of the Ford Freestar called the Monterey.

* Mercury Monterey, 1957 – 1964

* 2004 – 2007 Mercury Monterey

Both Pontiac and Oldsmobile offered the Turbo Hydra-Matic on all of their full-sized cars with any engine offering, and three-speed automatics were also the norm on big cars from GM's medium-priced competitors such as the Chrysler Newport and Mercury Monterey, which offered the TorqueFlite and Cruise-O-Matic transmissions, respectively.

Wheelbase was increased by one inch to, matching direct competitors such as Oldsmobile Delta 88, Mercury Monterey and Chrysler Newport.

The Ford V platform is a dedicated minivan platform exploited by Ford and Mercury.

The Mercury Villager was a minivan, marketed by Ford from model years 1993-2002.

The Aerostar was sold only under the Ford brand ; the first minivan sold by the Lincoln-Mercury division was the 1993 Mercury Villager.

Because of manufacturing issues, Nissan had an arrangement for Ford to assemble the minivan in North America, and in turn they were allowed to rebadge it and sell it under the Mercury brand as the Villager.

The captain's gig of H.M.S. Mercury was being rowed to H.M.S. Neptune.

Mercury was often used in mining, to extract precious metals like gold and silver from their ores.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Celeris was given to Castor by Mercury.

Mercury was added to the tube, trapping a fixed quantity of air in the short, sealed end of the tube.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Mercury, vital for the production of silver was scarce, besides the neglect of the officials.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.