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- Please post the video. I teach design to engineering students. SHOWING the process of design is a great teaching too. Especially when a car is involved.
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- No matter what they do they'll never recapture the beauty and grace of the great Lincolns of 1930-1956. The basic requirement that all cars have to look basically the same in order to be aerodynamic is one problem. The other is that cars aren't designed by people of immaculate taste like Edsel Ford. They all look like Toyotas from the side.
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- I was surprised at your surprise that a Cadillac engineer would go to work for Lincoln / Ford.
As you rightly stated Henry M Leland was the founder of Lincoln motor car co. Later sold to Henry Ford. You should have mentioned that some 15 years earlier Henry M Leland Built the first ever Cadillac and founded that company which later became a brand for GM.
So to quote Mark Twain..... "history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
Henry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur. He founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques, Cadillac and Lincoln - Reply to this comment
- Making the car have more appeal with younger people is pretty much counter to what Lincoln has long stood for. Maybe make it understated, luxurious and racy.
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- My 2009 Fusion will blow the doors off of any *** Crap....and will stay together. All my Fords have nearly 200k on them . Then I get another one..
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- Frankly, i have found the entire Ford product line to be overpriced, in comparison to other car brands.
That on top of the fact that Ford has had fire danger vehicles since the 1960's, makes me totally ignore their vehicles. - Reply to this comment
- Actually, in 1957, Cadillac's Eldorado Brougham carried a price of $13,714 making it the most expensive car sold in the United States.
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- Hey, nice copy of the Hyundai Genesis, and this "New " Lincoln design is supposed to make people crack open their wallets and rush out and buy? I don't think so. Years back every car had a distinctive look d d you could tell one manufacturer from another, now everything comes out of the same mold with slightly different taillights and grills. BORING!
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- One word: Boring! The styling looks like every other car on the road. It certainly doesn't stand out.
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- So the price and other details don't matter, just the design which has "There's this one single line running through the body. It's got a very, almost uninterrupted kind of silhouette running through it." I can't see which line he's talking about. So I assume that it has world class amenities and engineering with a 10 year warranty all for less than $29,000 fully loaded.
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