Death of the Lincoln Town Car

jerrym3 said:
The car had class in it's day.

I still remember the TV commercial back in the 80's when a few folks are waiting for their cars at a restaurant.

The car jockeys and the owners can't find the right GM car because thay all look alike, while this gentlemen walks up and say "the Lincoln TownCar, please" and gets his car right away.
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I will gage & compare any & every thing Ford ever slaps the Lincoln Town Car name on, to the 1980 - 1989 bodied Town Cars ..... till the day I die. Nothing to write home about power-wise ..... but a beautifully body & interior(Signatures & Cartiers). You knew exactly what it was when you saw one, just as you still knew you were looking at a TC, when looking at a 1990-1997. A 1998+?. BLECH !!!!! ..... that thing doesn't know WTF it's really supposed to be - neither do most traditional Lincoln buyers or even Ford themselves for that matter obviously.

The farther away they stray from tradition ..... the farther I will stray & stay.

Yes, I am admitted dinosaur .....

But with all the retro-stuff that is going on with what was considered pony or muscle cars ..... there is no reason why someone couldn't go that route with a larger full-sized luxury car & build something more updated engine & suspension wise that still actually looked like a traditional luxury car you would be proud of & want to still own & have stashed away in your garage 30+ years later.

The MM - current CV & GM are the only big cars that come close these days.

I don't have the stomach to even look at these new generic POS Zephyrs/Mk Z W(whatever)TF you want to call them, when I see them out on the road as brand new cars .....

Let alone will I be sitting in my garage in 30+ years from now, drinking a beer ...... wishing I was staring at one that I bought - held onto - & preserved.

Every car I have right now with the exception of the truck(nothing wrong with it - but it's nothing special - plenty more decent trucks out there) I want to be able to say I still have sitting here in 30+ years.

Course' the way things are headed in the automotive design world .....

A run of the mill 2001 Dakota may actually in fact be something special to look at in 30+ years.

Oh well .....

It was a decent run Ford. At least you built & held onto the bigger stuff in 1985 -1986 & 1987 when GM stopped making their really nice stuff & made damn near everything they ever made FWD.

It worked ..... you won me over in the mid-80's with the Panthers - the Mark VII LSC & even a few of your Thunderbirds & Cougars. Course' you did ruin the Cougar after 1997 ... shame on you there.

Too bad in a couple of years , the only thing you will make I would buy is a Mustang - pick-up or SUV.
(yes I said SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLE :eek:).

And that remains to be seen ..... sooner or later I'm sure you will screw those up to. At least George Jetson will be happy.

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pack rat

I could not agree more.

I bought a new TC in 1989, white, half vinyl top (black), Signature series. Absolutely gorgeous, plush riding car.

I sold it in August 2004 at 148,000 miles. Except for a trans rebuild and front end parts replacement stuff, car was pretty much original.

But, it developed an oil leak, my wife wanted a new car, and I couldn't pass up the deals they were giving on the 2004 LS. (Neither of us could accept the styling on the newer TCs.)

While I love driving the LS, and I'm not comparing it to the TC, there was nothing like that 1989 Signature.
 
No wonder it's going to die, they never upgrade it, it's been untouched since 1998 and most serious is its woefully underpowerd engine. If Ford would would install the 5.4 litre V-8, tweak its styling the vehicle's sales would increase enormously. Unfortunately, the marketing morons at Ford can't figure that out.
 
sailsmen said:
the problem is William Ford.
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That is another market Ford is letting go of.
DEFYANT said:
I'll concur.

I've begun to look outside the Ford offerings for future mini-van replacement vehicles. Though it will be awhile before we trade up Lisas van, I am looking at whats out there.
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Bradley@DynoPros said:
That is another market Ford is letting go of.
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I've owned two Windstars, a '95 and a '00. Trust me, Ford never really got it in the first place.
They seemed content to stay a step or two behind Chrysler, except when it came to the apparently desirable
transmission self-destruct feature. That one they nailed. :depress:

You want a new minivan? It's a no-brainer. Buy an Odyssey.
 
Blech.

The real shame is ..... the fact there were 10 of any Focai' ever built to begin with.

Puddle jumpers.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Let's go back to ranting about man sized automobiles.

:P
 
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