Introduced in 2006, the Milan took the Mystique's place as Mercury's smallest sedan. Whereas the Mystique had been a badge-engineered Contour, the Milan was the Mercury counterpart to the Fusion.
Based on the CD3 midsize sedan platform, which also underpinned the Lincoln Zephyr and Mazda6, the Milan came in four- or six-cylinder flavors, with the latter being offered with optional AWD starting in 2007.
The nine-spoke 16" alloy wheels on this Vivid Red example were stock on the V6 models, and if you ordered the Premier package you got 14-spoke seventeen-inchers.
The base four-cylinder was the 160 horsepower 2.3L Duratec and could be had with either 5-speed manual or 5-speed auto gearbox. The V6 was the DOHC 24V 3.0L Duratec making 221 horses, and it only came with a six-speed slushbox.
With as much horsepower as a mid-Nineties Mustang GT, the 3,300 pound Milan was reasonably sprightly for a vanilla mid-Aughties sedan. MotorWeek's test car dashed to sixty in seven seconds flat and ran the quarter in 15.4 at 93mph.
Base price for an '06 Mercury Milan V6 was $21,995, or a bit over $34k in today's dollars.
In the automotive Trivial Pursuit category, the Milan was the last new nameplate introduced by Mercury before the brand's demise after the 2011 model year.
The one in the picture was snapped with an Olympus OM-D E-M1X and M. Zuiko Digital 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3 in January of 2025.
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