1998 Ford Crown Victoria Reviews, Pricing & Specs
What owners say
"Overall, reviewers have mixed feelings about the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria. Many owners appreciate its power, spacious interior, and handling, which they find enjoyable and fun to drive. However, several reviewers mention reliability issues, particularly with the transmission and build quality, along with somewhat disappointing gas mileage as downsides. Despite these concerns, the car's performance and size seem to win over many drivers."
Excellent first car. Guzzles the gas a bit, but quite safe and fun to drive. Rear wheel drive is phenomenal, the back end of this can slide out fairly easily. Can be hard to control in the rain or in gravel due to lack of traction control or a limited-slip rear differential, but still an excellent driver once you get the hang of it. Benefits of it being mistaken for a cop car include avoiding being pulled over and having people get out of your way on the freeway.
November 28, 2012great performance, built tough, basically a pick-up in car form, gas mileage is decent for how big the car is, approx. miles per gallon highway, very very fun to drive, people get out of my way on the highway for obvious reasons
December 22, 2011This car was once a NH state cop car. It was then put on auction just under 100K miles, where the cop who drove it daily bought it and put a few more thousand miles on it. He then sold it, and after another owner, I happened upon it. The interior has some mark ups from when the electronics (laptop etc.) was hooked up to the dash; still can see the old holes for when the cage was in there. It's got a green paint job with the chrome package, and I took off the rims so it looks even sharper. Handles like a dream; it gets 22-25 miles per gallon, if you cruise her right.
May 29, 2008What owners say
Excellent first car. Guzzles the gas a bit, but quite safe and fun to drive. Rear wheel drive is phenomenal, the back end of this can slide out fairly easily. Can be hard to control in the rain or in gravel due to lack of traction control or a limited-slip rear differential, but still an excellent driver once you get the hang of it. Benefits of it being mistaken for a cop car include avoiding being pulled over and having people get out of your way on the freeway.
November 28, 2012great performance, built tough, basically a pick-up in car form, gas mileage is decent for how big the car is, approx. miles per gallon highway, very very fun to drive, people get out of my way on the highway for obvious reasons
December 22, 2011This car was once a NH state cop car. It was then put on auction just under 100K miles, where the cop who drove it daily bought it and put a few more thousand miles on it. He then sold it, and after another owner, I happened upon it. The interior has some mark ups from when the electronics (laptop etc.) was hooked up to the dash; still can see the old holes for when the cage was in there. It's got a green paint job with the chrome package, and I took off the rims so it looks even sharper. Handles like a dream; it gets 22-25 miles per gallon, if you cruise her right.
May 29, 2008The police interceptor was a very fun and reliable car. The handling was decent for a full size sedan. The 4.6L engine only made 220hp but seemed as if it had much more. I ended up cracking the crankshaft in half and having to replace the trans, but other than that the car was extremely reliable. Ford 4R70W transmissions are junk!
October 1, 2009That it is better then Jerrons civic. The handling is good. The car is very fast. Appearance is awesome. It could have better gas mileage. The car is very fun to drive. I always scare other cars because i look like a cop.
October 8, 2009I have owned 2 crowns before this on and i love them. I don't think that I will ever own anything other than a Crown Victoria. It is well worth the money and the space is outstanding in my opinion.
April 1, 2012Big, roomy, scoots along pretty quickly. And gets decent mileage. I always wanted one and once I did I could not go back.
February 28, 2008This car is great, it has so much power on tap, just keep an eye on you're coils, 1 little malfunction and the car will miss quite a bit, but not until about 260 thousand kilometers so rest easy. It also handles great for a 4000 pound car!!
August 12, 2009Perfect in the US, where there'e plenty of space to park this 17 foot long beast, and it eats the miles on the highway while you can sit back... if fact almost lie back.... and relax. Handling was non-existant, performance was shambolic except if you put your foot down when you're already doing 60...you'll be pleasently surprised. Build quality also terrible. Th windows stopped working..then fell out! The tranmission juddered at certain speeds no matter what we did to fix it... I could go on but the list is long and boring. However I loved this car will all its fovballs. Huge boot, huge engine, easy to drive but also hugely dull (especially as ours was gold)
December 31, 2007
