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A lot of the demographic buyers for this MKT will be older Panther platform buyers DYING to get out of the old Town car and Crown Vic and into something that makes the feel alive, for their last vehicle. They have the money for something approaching $60K, not these Monday morning wanna be quarterbacks. The ones saying: "there's nothing about it I like (Translation, it's not a to Yoda, and I can never afford this)" or "it needs 7-11 seats (translation, I still have 2.5 + my neighbors kids to drive to school at the end of the blockl)" are knocking it because when they finally can afford it, the buyers for it now, will be looooong gone and buried. Real question is how much will translate to the dealer showrooms?

This looks pretty damn sharp to me, it's all in the way pictures are taken. You walk into a showroom and look this over, I'd think you'd be impressed.

I think this is GREAT! It speaks LUXURY! It honestly will steal sales from the MKX as a CUV, depending on how much more this goes for. People with the money want something a lot more different from the Edge and I can see with this, Lincoln Ahead and on course with reshaping design. This is leading, most people just want to see how one manufactuer copies what someone else does. Remember your tastes may not equal your pocket book for this MKT. Kinda like a 20 year old Kid that drives a ricer slamming a DB9. This is already a stretched platform. Add 1 more foot behind that front door and you have the newest Limo! But the interior is too modern for an attempt at production. Imagine yourself in that back seat, you don't want to be looking at hard plastic on the seats in front of you, that's too in your face. That back seat also needs to be isolated from luggage behind it ala MKX,somehow. 100 years of Leather and Wood will not disappear over night, Think Mayback. Luxury does NOT mean 3 row seating, PERIOD! No side marker lights, this structure probably can't take a rollover as is. Thus the winshield roof will not work. The gage cluster does not attain the rest of the upscale looks to the inside. Was that a manual-matic shift? Keep that center stack. That is the best part of this interior, I don't like the chrome on the seats, that speaks of Melmac and 50's clitch. But those seats are just a divesture for show. When the hood is popped I want to see luxury their also, like the Twin-Force looked earlier. Writers are comparing this to the Enclave, probably because they can't see where this has vaulted Lincoln squarely ahead of Caddiliac. Tone down and chrome up that front grill, retain the double wing, but make the waterfalls 1/4" vertical chrome bars in front of black. Perhaps too much. That adds a dash back to the 50's and 70's grills for Heritage. Actually I think the waterfall grill is the cheapest look to this whole concept. Those fog light surrounds need work and LED's too. Nice wheels, but cover the lugs. No more rear window wiper, good. Just a hint of a rear spoiler. Lincoln use to have seperate colours but these last few years, nothing different, they need their own unique Luxury colors to keep exclusitivity. Bumpers were taken away with the MKX front and rear. Now get this on Market as a 2010. Bastards have now priced me back out of a Lincoln. Excellent job, now get to work on it.

KR - King Ranch

Something just seems wrong with the top pic. Now you have a truck you don't dare get dirty. Those cooled seats in the Bottom Platinum?

The longer I look at this, the sweeeeter it gets.. the porportions look nice, The Edge style Lights go well. Perhaps aftermarket will copy the MKX grill cubes to strip in the lower black bottom. Then again, someone will want to go a chrome tube grill to this the day they get it. You know you want to be seen driving this.

Same Grills. Surround on the blue is body colour, on the green not. Notice the subtle differences? and Bumpers? Now compare the green to the brown/copper above, with the bumpers. So you've got a plethora of colour combos to work with.

most of the discussion seems to be going on here and the pics are popping up their also http://www.blueovalforums.com/forums/index...ic=20151&hl=

SUPER CHIEF! NICE Look and Colour

That's amazing! Is this in your line of work? You should be getting paid for producing Art like that.

You just do what you have too.

WHY my gun? can't he use your little sword?

cool, you know something? man how could I be so stupid.,, OMG, you have outted me.. Oh how I know I must be hated by the International. and Now You and Captain have outta me... How could I have been so stupid to have picked this nick name Guess I am the worlds dumbest fat fuck. sigh................

SHRINK IT! They have too. You read it on here daily, their is NO Loyalty, nothing left like that In the USA. Guy running a reliability research firm in Indiana, says once KIA's are made in America, then he will probably get one of those. (course Ind. is now home to 3 jap plants and a large animosity towards the UAW). Thru thick and thin, some (very very small minority) will stick with Ford, but all people really need is just a small excuse to look elsewhere. Even a jap auto commercial is touting "Don't like your wife?, Get a new one" I like reading this site, because everything is written in a historical tone, and seems to be pretty much on the mark. More answers at at that site as to why they lose money also. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/ford26.htm

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Those are basically just trip odometers, each time their reset, they just count down to the predetermined number of miles til they alert you again. On some of the GM's oil life monitors that's exactly what they do, they monitor the life of the oil, and report back. How it's done? I don't know, maybe optically, determining the containment levels. There are still some people that get enjoyment from changing their own oil, and do it better and cheaper than the dealership/oil change shop's. If your conserving gas, oil and money, some of the GM and foreign oil 'life' meters are better, no doubt about it.

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OMG! would all you haters JUST LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!!!!

I'm impressed with your abilities also Tim, Very fine job, my man. I hope you get to use this talent in your future. I myself have been researching and studying the Lincoln heritage, and thinking about the design cues they use on the new models and if I was to design something, what would I do. I'd like to see more of your work.

Frank, you know they can't just open those doors at the border. They have to wait til Kansas City, so their cargo, can scatter to all 4 corners of the country. Much much better odds of getting a drivers license that way.