Yeah, you know how American movies and TV shows in the '60s and '70s were often sponsored by car companies, so that everyone (except the background people in location shots) mysteriously drove the same make of car? In the ones sponsored by Ford, the Marauder would be what the bad guy drove.

The first example of this that comes readily to my mind is the old Perry Mason TV series starring Raymond Burr. In some episodes, Mason drives a Ford Skyliner* and his detective pal Paul Drake has a Thunderbird, the cops drive Galaxies; in others, Mason has a Cadillac and Drake drives a Corvette, and all the cops are in Chevy Biscaynes. It all depended on whose product placement budget was bigger that day...

* The Skyliner was an interesting beast: it was a version of the Fairlane made in the late '50s which had a retractable hardtop roof, decades before such a thing was customary—or even, if you want to get right down to it, technically feasible. :) The name was recycled from earlier Fords with a gimmicky glass roof. My dad reports that when he was a kid, his uncle had one, and he never opened the roof for fear that it would break, as they very generally did.

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