Mercury does not build many cars like the Mercury Voyager: a 3-door Hardtop#United States / hardtop station wagon / 5-door Hardtop#United States / hardtop station wagon with 312 cuin Ford Y-block V8, built from 1957 at the height of the post-war boom.
Where it came from
The Mercury Voyager is a station wagon that was sold by the Mercury division of Ford for the 1957 and 1958 model years. For the 1957 model year, Mercury created a model range of station wagons distinct from sedans, following Ford (and later Edsel).
The Voyager served as the mid-range offering, slotted above the base-trim Mercury Commuter, with the woodgrained Colony Park serving as the top-range offering. For the 1959 model year, Ford consolidated the station wagon nameplates of its non-Lincoln divisions, with the Voyager combined into the "Country Cruiser" series while the Ford Del Rio, Edsel Roundup, and Edsel Bermuda were discontinued.
Under the skin
Under the skin sits 312 cuin Ford Y-block V8; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 3-speed Merc-o-Matic automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 122 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Nissan Skyline, the Fiat 500, the Dodge Challenger. Nearby in the Mercury catalogue sit the Mercury Bobcat and the Mercury Capri.
The money
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Mercury Voyager has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.