The Ford Crown Victoria (commonly nicknamed the Crown Vic) is a rear-wheel drive full-size car first produced by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market in the mid-1950s. Its current incarnation has been in production since 1992 at Ford's St. Thomas Assembly plant. While the Crown Victoria shares its platform and components with the Lincoln Town Car, it shares almost no exterior sheet metal or interior parts. Beginning with the 2008 model year, it has been available only for fleet sales, mainly in police and taxi form, as well as for rental car companies.
The Crown Victoria (along with its Mercury and Lincoln counterparts) is the only full-frame rear-wheel-drive passenger car currently built in North America. It is also one of the few surviving US vehicles still in production with features such as the column-mounted gear shift and a two-bench, six-passenger seating layout; this is a design which has otherwise largely been replaced by the two front-bucket layout popularized by imports.
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