In 2004, the Mercury division replaced the discontinued Villager with its own version of the Freestar using the Monterey name. After selling far under sales projections, Ford discontinued Monterey after the 2007 model year. The Mercury Monterey has keyless entry remote fob smart keys that are onboard programmable, which means a person can program the keyless entry remote fob smart key with no special equipment other than the keyless entry remote fob smart key programming instructions.