page_title: Sleeper (car)
hierarchical_section_title: Sleeper (car)
caption_attribution_description: 2003-2004 Mercury Marauder photographed in College Park, Maryland, USA.
context_page_description: A sleeper or Q-car is a car that has high performance and an unassuming exterior. Sleeper cars are so called because their exterior looks similar or identical to a standard or economy-class car. In some cases the car appears worse due to seeming neglect on the owner's part, typically referred to as "all go and no show". While appearing to be a standard or neglected car, internally they are modified to have higher performance levels. The American nomenclature comes from the term sleeper agent, while the British term derives from the Q-ships used by the Royal Navy.
  In the February 1963 Motor Sport magazine editor Bill Boddy said "the modifications carried out by Lotus have turned the Lotus Cortina into a 'Q' car par excellence". The British film The Long Arm mentions a Q car patrolling the city by night, indicating that the term was in use among UK law enforcement at least a decade earlier.
  In July 1964, British magazine Motorcycle Mechanics carried an announcement from editor Bill Lawless of the use of two police 'Q–cars' – a black Daimler SP250 sports car and a green Austin A40 Farina – patrolling the A20 road between London and Maidstone, Kent.
context_section_description: A sleeper (US English) or Q-car (British English) is a car that has high performance and an unassuming exterior. Sleeper cars are so called because their exterior looks similar or identical to a standard or economy-class car. In some cases the car appears worse due to seeming neglect on the owner's part, typically referred to as "all go and no show".  While appearing to be a standard or neglected car, internally they are modified to have higher performance levels.  The American nomenclature comes from the term sleeper agent, while the British term derives from the Q-ships used by the Royal Navy.
  In the February 1963  Motor Sport magazine editor Bill Boddy said "the modifications carried out by Lotus have turned the Lotus Cortina into a 'Q' car par excellence". The British film The Long Arm (film) (1956; aka The Third Key) mentions a Q car (unmarked) patrolling the city by night, indicating that the term was in use among UK law enforcement at least a decade earlier.
  In July 1964, British magazine Motorcycle Mechanics carried an announcement from editor Bill Lawless of the use of two police 'Q–cars' – a black Daimler SP250 sports car and a green Austin A40 Farina – patrolling the A20 road between London and Maidstone, Kent.
caption: A Third generation Mercury Marauder, the performance version of the Mercury Grand Marquis[original research?]
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