Mercury My

The (my) mercury Concept, sometimes known as the Mercury My, was a concept car created by Mercury and first introduced at the 1999 North American International Auto Show. J Mays, who also designed the Volkswagen New Beetle, designed it, which may explain why its curved roofline resembles the New Beetle. The concept was assembled in Pretoria, South Africa. It had center opening suicide style doors and two amber glass panels, and its center console carried a trackball that controlled the sound system, climate controls and an integrated global positioning system shown on a screen mounted in the center. The car looked like neither a car, truck nor SUV, and the article describes it as a foreshadowing of the crossover utility vehicle segment that followed in the early part of the next decade.