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Old 02-08-2013, 02:09 AM   #15
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It's a beautiful car, as is the MKS and and MKX. Far better looking than anything coming out of Cadillac lately, and up there with the new Chrysler 300.
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Old 02-08-2013, 03:21 AM   #16
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I agree. I think it would look better with a more retro grill, but that thing just looks like a blue whale sucking up plankton.
I would have to agree the grille isn't exactly the greatest. Perhaps replace it with a mesh ala CTS-V.
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It's a beautiful car, as is the MKS and and MKX. Far better looking than anything coming out of Cadillac lately, and up there with the new Chrysler 300.
I dunno I feel that Cadillac has the better looking luxury American cars out right now. That ATS is one great looking car IMO.
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Old 02-08-2013, 09:28 AM   #18
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The target market for the Twins would want nothing to do with a 4dr Lincoln.
That's where I think you're kind of wrong. If this car drives anything like the 2013 Taurus', then it should be qa fairly nice ride from the easy, comfortable, cruising perspective. I understand that it really isn't a driver's car, but it was never meant to be.

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Luxury cars don't make it onto my radar, really. Typically a car over 3,100lbs wont make it onto my radar. [Not to imply that my 'radar' is some bastion of exclusivity.]
Nissan GT-R? Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca? Corvette Z06? Porsche 911 GT2? BMW M3? Toyota Supra? Dodge Viper? Mercedes SLS? None of these cars (and many others) make it onto your radar?
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Old 02-08-2013, 11:24 AM   #19
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I would have to agree the grille isn't exactly the greatest. Perhaps replace it with a mesh ala CTS-V.

I think it would look just fine with a modernized version of the grill from the old car they show in the ad. They just went too far trying to make it "swoopy".
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I dunno I feel that Cadillac has the better looking luxury American cars out right now. That ATS is one great looking car IMO.
I agree. If I was picking between the two, Cadi wins all the way these days. Although if I was going big iron, Give me a seriously old school Continental (no not me)!

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Nissan GT-R? Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca? Corvette Z06? Porsche 911 GT2? BMW M3? Toyota Supra? Dodge Viper? Mercedes SLS? None of these cars (and many others) make it onto your radar?
Well, considering that most of those fall off my radar for a different reason [I'd never be able to afford one] i can accept the Mustang, the Corvette, the Porsche, but i would have to do considerable weight reduction on them. I'm not seduced by high-powered land-boats. I've grown up with Hot Rods and Muscle Cars being plentiful in my family and it's just not as appealing as lightweight cars. [To me]
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Well, considering that most of those fall off my radar for a different reason [I'd never be able to afford one] i can accept the Mustang, the Corvette, the Porsche, but i would have to do considerable weight reduction on them. I'm not seduced by high-powered land-boats. I've grown up with Hot Rods and Muscle Cars being plentiful in my family and it's just not as appealing as lightweight cars. [To me]
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Hey, a handsome looking Lincoln for once! 'Bout time they got their $#!t together, before they get canned like Mercury.
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