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Having just picked up a Lincoln MKZ , I can’t help but recall the immortal words of the pokwer playing gentleman
“I like me a Town Car – man look quiet and correct in one of them.”
Truer words have never been spoken. I am not quite sure the MKZ confers quite the same dignity and bearing on the person driving it, but we’ll see in a week’s time.
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I own an official Panther love badge. It accredits my good taste in all things automotive, and also confers a 10% discount on dinner entrees before 4:00 pm.
Quiet dignity is exactly right. The MKS has a little of it. The facelift less so than the 09-13 model.
The Town Car has it overflowing its every gunwale.
I’m told my ’11 300C grill conveys that I’m a Big, Angry, Asshole that’s in a hurry.
Which isn’t true, I’m not ALWAYS in a hurry.
Why oh why can’t we have karma voting?
Derek, you are FAR to young for that car. One of my friends drives a Zeyphr, and it is perfectly nice, but it just SCREAMS old fart. Which is OK, he’s 50 and old at heart. He bought it from his Dad when the old man moved on to a DTS!
At least dynamically it belongs to the current century, and not the middle of the previous like a Clown Car.
Despite its faults Town Car is one of, if not the only plush luxury car you can buy and afford to keep for a lengthy period while running it many miles with minimal fuss or issues simply because its design is so old.
I should clarify it’s a press car.
Road in a Town Car taxi on vacation. It had 234,000 miles on it. Was quiet, smooth, rattle free. Just a hint of wear on the leather. We need a new modern Town Car. Lincoln hasn’t come up with one yet. The current batch of Lincolns would make good Mercury’s!
A friend who’s watching Game of Thrones, and who hasn’t seen The Wire, asked me if The Wire is better.
I said “Not that Game of Thrones isn’t good, but The Wire kicks the sh!t out of Game of Thrones.”
The only show better than The Wire (by a wasp’s phallus) is The Sopranos
…until the rear starts ‘the sag.’
A dark green Grand Marquis with wore out rear air springs is always a common sight.
New rear air springs cost all of $150.
Also, I would love to get my hands on a copy of my mom’s 1987 Lincoln Town Car. Best car I ever grew up in…
White with blue top and blue interior, those funky wire wheels that weren’t wheel covers but looked like they were…
I don’t know why steelies with hubcaps aren’t more common, they can look as expensive as they need to be while still having the durability of steel, as well as being cheap as dirt, and easily replaceable. Cragers for $10 from Autozone anyone?
Well the Town Car did have wire wheel covers. My mom’s Town Car didn’t have those.
So is it the 2.0 I4 turbo, the six cylinder, or the hybrid? Are there any details available about how the car actually drives (as opposed to whether or not the onboard entertainment/navigation system interacts with your cellphone in a life-affirming manner)?
It’s probably nearly exactly like a Ford Fusion Titanium, just priced much, much, much higher, and with a weird structural steel rear window surround defect baked in, as a free option.
Lol as soon as I see MKZ on anything, I think of the rear window issue.
If I was going to drive a Lincoln, I’d rather have my old 1962 Continental convertible back. Or even maybe the 1960 Premiere sedan I had. Lincoln had already gone down the hole by the time the 68’s arrived with their gimp flywheel gear and their nylon power window gears.