Lincoln MkZ face lift

This may not be normal GRM fodder, but I think it looks awesome, not that I'm biased or anything. Plus the GRM friendly bit. Available 400hp engine and AWD torque vectoring.

Looking at the interior shot, is this another one of those vehicles where you have to guess where the gearshift is hidden?

My first thought is it reminds me of a Jaguar grill.
Will Lincoln be changing the design language of all it's grill forthcoming?

Jagcoln or Linquar

It's the first production version of the new corporate grille shown on the Continental concept at the NY show back in April.

Alright, alright, alright.

stuart in mn wrote: Looking at the interior shot, is this another one of those vehicles where you have to guess where the gearshift is hidden?

Lincoln don't have a traditional PRNDL. Look to the left of the center stack and there are push buttons going down for start, Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive and Sport with flappy paddles on the behind the steering wheel for manual shifts. Our MkC had them last year, my wife loved it compared to a normal Shifter.

Jag:

Current Version:

Seems like we do a grill change every 3-4 years, after being told that THIS IS THE GRILL. Geez.

Last CD car intro- we were over at some show, where both the Fusion and MKZ were being shown on opposite sides of the room. Me, sitting all the way in the back, could not tell the difference. Even after being told that they were distinctly different.

I told a VP that at the end of the meeting, they were not too happy with me.

Which means I will wait until the new fusion comes out to decide if I like this or not.

But it is interesting that Ford uses a nose that is very similar to Aston Martin, and Lincoln uses one that is very similar to Jaguar.

I guess after seeing versions of Audi bodies being called Ford, this does not shock me. Our lead designer came from Jag. Not all that original, if you ask me. I'm not keen on copying a company like Jag.

Am I the only one that sees the Kia K900?

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

stuart in mn wrote: Looking at the interior shot, is this another one of those vehicles where you have to guess where the gearshift is hidden?

Lincoln don't have a traditional PRNDL. Look to the left of the center stack and there are push buttons going down for start, Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive and Sport

Pushbuttons...kind of like the '58 Dodge my mother had when I was a kid.

I rode in a friend's new Ram pickup the other day and noticed it had a rotary knob on the dashboard for gearchanges.

I suppose a person will get used to any control method pretty quickly, but I'm picturing getting into a rental car at midnight at an airport somewhere and having to figure out how to make the car go.

I like the look. Definitely has a Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag vibe to it. Then again, I also like the front end of the outgoing model.

Can't wait until used ones depreciate to $15k after about a year!

I like it a lot. Probably not enough to buy one though.

chandlerGTi wrote: I like it a lot. Probably not enough to buy one though.

Yeah, me too. It looks less like an expensive Chinese / Korean car now (Asians are big on that weird wing/rib/curvy-louver thing) and more like a Jag (which is not a bad thing) while not being a Jag.

Yeah, it looks like the Jag grill, but let's not lose sight of the fact that they got rid of the ugly piece of crap they had before. Plus, they've been rocking the back end for awhile now.

SilverFleet wrote: I like the look. Definitely has a Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag vibe to it. Then again, I also like the front end of the outgoing model. Can't wait until used ones depreciate to $15k after about a year!

Have you seen the 2017 LaCrosse? If that depreciates like the current model does, I can wait...

So Ford copies Aston, Lincoln copies Jag? The current everything sold by Lincoln looks awful so I guess I can't blame them.

alfadriver wrote: Seems like we do a grill change every 3-4 years, after being told that THIS IS THE GRILL. Geez. Last CD car intro- we were over at some show, where both the Fusion and MKZ were being shown on opposite sides of the room. Me, sitting all the way in the back, could not tell the difference. Even after being told that they were distinctly different. I told a VP that at the end of the meeting, they were not too happy with me. Which means I will wait until the new fusion comes out to decide if I like this or not. But it is interesting that Ford uses a nose that is very similar to Aston Martin, and Lincoln uses one that is very similar to Jaguar. I guess after seeing versions of Audi bodies being called Ford, this does not shock me. Our lead designer came from Jag. Not all that original, if you ask me. I'm not keen on copying a company like Jag.

Your post reminds me of the story about Bunkie Knudsen coming to Ford from GM and revising the front of the Thunderbird to look like a Pontiac.

I'd be way more interested if it was called a Zephyr instead of random alphabet soup.

Are those diamond quilted seats production? Because I'd buy it just for those, seriously cool. These cars are interesting but I can't quite figure out who they're marketing to. Are they trying to steal the BMW/Audi crowd? Aging Camry drivers? I'd love to peek at the demographics of the purchasers.

mtn wrote: Am I the only one that sees the Kia K900?

this was my first reaction as well. I see the jag now that you mention it, though.

The nose of the old MKZ was the only part of the styling that I didn't like, it was like Dame Edna's face on a dancers body.

I like this one much better. It does look a lot like KIA K900, which does look a Jag. If I had to pick something contemporary to copy, that's what I'd pick too.

Buy a K900, replace Kia oval with Ford oval, glue on Jaguar scripts, blow minds.

I'm imaging this with that nose and I'm Very happy.

In reply to mazdeuce:

I too noticed the seats. What first caught my attention was they are not leather. It is rare to see a car in this class without leather. Upon zooming in on the picture, I realized that those diamondsame you mention are actually Lincoln emblems.

The whole think is a bit of a knock off of the cloth that Coach, the handbag company uses.
All in all, I like it and I think it looks nice.

Sample

Buick once offered similar on the Rendezvous.