wrote:

>I am looking for a vehicle to drive to work. Found a awd 2002 mercury
>mountaineer with 44,000 miles. Are these good and reliable? How does
>the awd work? Is it good in ice/snow? What about mileage?

I just bought a used one last January. We had some snow and ice right
after I bought it and it handled very good. I don't know how it would
do in deep snow. My wife makes many short trips, less that 5 miles
and gets about 17 MPG. On a trip of about 300 miles, most of that at
75 MPH, I got 22.7 MPG.

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Jim Rusling
Partially Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org