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The 1994 Mercury Sable AIV Concept was a prototype part of Ford’s Aluminium Intensive Vehicle program.
It was posted on Reddit, more recently:
So I was walking through an old abandoned building at work to check out a few things that are possibly worth keeping before we start knocking down the structure. Near the back of the storage room there is a car under a tarp. Being a car person I am curious and pull off the tarp. At first I was a little underwhelmed but then I noticed a few things that were out of place. It turns out this is one of twenty aluminum intensive vehicles (AIVs) made by Ford Canada under the Mercury nameplate in the early 90s as a R&D project assessing the viability of aluminum in cars. It is in pretty bad shape (it has 270,000 km on the odometer and a full trip logbook), but I snapped some pics anyway and hopefully you’ll enjoy seeing a piece of automotive history I didn’t even know existed until a few days ago.
