What's Wrong With This Picture: MKX Gets Cetaceous Edition
Published: January 12th, 2010
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Another year passes and another Lincoln sprouts a baleen-feeder snout. Because familial consistency is more important than allowing innocent retinas to go unseared.
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Car looks pretty darned nice to me...what's the problem?
I think the split wing grill looks good on the MKX, though I liked the previous egg-crate version as well. The interior of the 2011 model is absolutely gorgeous however, with lots of slick LCD displays, touch sensitive controls, and better sculpting of the real wood trim. Add the new higher quality Lincoln leather and you have the best interior amongst the luxury FWD CUV segment. Combine the technology and interior quality with the new class leading 305hp V6 and also best in class (for a non-hybrid) 18/25 mpg fuel economy, and Lincoln has a real winner here.
These new Lincolns look familiar... Lincoln MKS Pontiac Bonneville _______________ Lincoln MKT Pontiac G6 GXP
Add me to the list of people who find this design actually...fairly appealing. The chrome is overdone, but the new Lincoln signature front end is far more distinctive than the generic, egg-crate schozz of the previous MKX. And if we are going to complain about companies putting the same signature front end on all of their vehicles--well, then let's call out BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Lexus, and of course Acura for doing the exact same thing. This kind of branding is getting more widespread and more prominent. As safety regs, passenger packaging, aerodynamics, and shared platforms make the overall vehicle shapes more similar, overall, extreme (and unified) front-end styling is a way for brands to stand apart from each other, and to tie their individual vehicles together. Not such a bad thing, from my POV. Recall what cars looked like a couple decades ago when design was at its absolute blandest?