Yup, nobody has the stones to admit that the D3 platform is a lost cause. Its too big for a fake-truck, FWD based and too boring. Maybe EcoBoost will help, but this application is still a nose heavy station wagon with a Lincoln badge.

Since I’m one of the resident history buffs: Lee Iacocca took the 1980s Mark VI and tried a wagon version based on the Crown Vic (it was already based on the Panther coupe and sedan chassis)…it was much, much uglier than the MKT.

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

I think it is bad enough to scare even ghosts away…

From the spyshots it looks like there’s some type of Continental bulge on the back that’s been subject to a modern interpretation.

That grill may be one of the worst ever. That weird funky/retro grill on the MKX at least has some heritage to it, but this thing is just bad for the sake of bad.

They should put that grill on their tombstone.

Yeah that was called the LS. As psarhjinian said, it was a great car but was styled like a Mitsubishi Diamante and had quality issues. The chassis was awesome. My dad had 2 and they would give a Bimmer 5 series a run for its money with that sweet Yamaha V8 and nuetral handling. Ford only managed to get the LS, the Jag S-type and the T-Bird out of that $1B platform, then they scrapped it in favor of the cursed D3.

The only good thing I can say about the MKT is that it would be the first Lincoln in the last 4 new models to have the same grill as another model in the lineup.

Mullaly has the business acumen, there is no doubt, but the on thing he doesn’t have is a sense for what makes a great car. In fact, nobody at Ford does. Mark Fields and Jay Mays are supposed to be those guys, which is why they should be fired right now.

Mercedes-Benz tried to approach luxury buyers with the R-Class, a minivan/SUV alternative, and that was a sales failure in the US market. What makes Lincoln think that they can do any better with this?

And the R-Class doesn’t look like…like…whatever the hell that thing is. That has a front end that will scare small children. And their parents.

Customer would be the same for either the MKT or the time share, though.

Epiphany. Gonna invest all my retirement funds in derivatives…

SteveKBLeitch

Clown Car. Will. Eat. me.

Exactly.

A jack-o’-lantern was the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

Maybe Ford can build a Mercury version of the Flex that looks like the Easter bunny.

And in keeping with the lovecroft theme:
“Ride of Ctulhu”