Lincoln MKT is a Mistake, On All Sorts of Levels
I mean, Holy Jesus, look at the thing! This could be the one example of a concept car whose drama shouldn't make it to production. Automobile Mag has Brenda Priddy's spy shots of the camo prototype, whose see-through bra reveals that the model's most hideous aspect– the cetacean snout– will be offending eyeballs everywhere. Well, not everywhere; the three-row Flex-based luxury CUV is bound to be a sales disaster. Once again, the "Reach Higher" brand has reached deeper into Ford's parts bin to devise a low-cost (for them) alternative to a "real" Lincoln. What is a "real Lincoln" you ask? Whatever it is, it's not an alphanumerically-named vehicle with about as much suave sophistication as Hooters' Bikini Contest 2008– only with a lot less aesthetic appeal. And does this MKT step all over the MKX? Yes. And does Lincoln sell six vehicles? Yes. And did I, a professional automotive journalist, have to visit the Lincoln website to make sure I remembered them all and got the nomenclature correct? Yes.
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I was going to write that I didn't think this was that bad... then I went to Lincoln site and looked at more pics. It's hideous. Still there is a market for ugly and expensive, in fact Chris Bangle has made a living off of it. The true head-scratching comes when you think, Ford needs a low-consumption, high-volume product. This is a high-consumption, low-volume product. Wrong car, wrong time, too bad they can't trade it to GM. I'm sure it would have made a great Aztek 2.0
Why so serious? The front countenance reminds me of the Joker in the new Batman movie.
A car called the Flex, the problem starts there for me. Flex what?