pro-five-oh
February 8th, 2006, 12:23 AM
Bravo to the good people at Autoextremist for tellin' it like it is.
http://autoextremist.com/page6.shtml
http://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gifhttp://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gifhttp://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gif Lincoln. From the "That dog won't hunt even with a T-bone" File comes word that Ford - in a desperate attempt to inject some differentiation into the Lincoln Zephyr, so it won't appear to be what it is - a badge-engineered version of the Mercury Milan (which is a badge-engineered version of the Ford Fusion) - is introducing an emergency makeover of the car at the Chicago Auto Show today. They say it was planned all along, but we're not buying it, because it made no sense to introduce the car in its present guise if they were going to change it in four months - we don't care how they spin it. The Zephy gets a new name - MK Z, more power and a new front end. Okay, we can endorse more power, and the freshened car gets Ford's new 3.5-liter Cyclone V-6 (featuring 29 more horsepower) with a six-speed automatic, which is good (the Fusion and Milan don't get the engine for 2007, but they do get the same AWD option). As for the front end, it is of limited appeal, since the basic shape of the car says Fusion-Milan clone no matter what they do to it. But calling it the MK Z? Don't we have enough "Z"-based names in the auto world already? We stated that Lincoln's decision to switch to an alpha-numeric naming system would be a train wreck when we first heard about it weeks ago. Our opinion hasn't changed. But in the end, unless and until Ford musters the effort to do a proper Lincoln, it probably won't matter what they call the car. http://www.autoextremist.com/cars/february2006/lincoln2%202-8-06.jpg
The 2007 Lincoln MK Z (formerly known as the
Lincoln Zephyr).
(Ford) http://www.autoextremist.com/cars/february2006/Lincoln1%202-8-06.jpg
The 2007 Lincoln MKZ. Ford says, "The redesigned rear bumper is nearly flush contributing to the MKZ's uncluttered, sophisticated look." Uh, well, ok - if you say so...
(Ford)
http://autoextremist.com/page6.shtml
http://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gifhttp://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gifhttp://www.autoextremist.com/arrowdown.gif Lincoln. From the "That dog won't hunt even with a T-bone" File comes word that Ford - in a desperate attempt to inject some differentiation into the Lincoln Zephyr, so it won't appear to be what it is - a badge-engineered version of the Mercury Milan (which is a badge-engineered version of the Ford Fusion) - is introducing an emergency makeover of the car at the Chicago Auto Show today. They say it was planned all along, but we're not buying it, because it made no sense to introduce the car in its present guise if they were going to change it in four months - we don't care how they spin it. The Zephy gets a new name - MK Z, more power and a new front end. Okay, we can endorse more power, and the freshened car gets Ford's new 3.5-liter Cyclone V-6 (featuring 29 more horsepower) with a six-speed automatic, which is good (the Fusion and Milan don't get the engine for 2007, but they do get the same AWD option). As for the front end, it is of limited appeal, since the basic shape of the car says Fusion-Milan clone no matter what they do to it. But calling it the MK Z? Don't we have enough "Z"-based names in the auto world already? We stated that Lincoln's decision to switch to an alpha-numeric naming system would be a train wreck when we first heard about it weeks ago. Our opinion hasn't changed. But in the end, unless and until Ford musters the effort to do a proper Lincoln, it probably won't matter what they call the car. http://www.autoextremist.com/cars/february2006/lincoln2%202-8-06.jpg
The 2007 Lincoln MK Z (formerly known as the
Lincoln Zephyr).
(Ford) http://www.autoextremist.com/cars/february2006/Lincoln1%202-8-06.jpg
The 2007 Lincoln MKZ. Ford says, "The redesigned rear bumper is nearly flush contributing to the MKZ's uncluttered, sophisticated look." Uh, well, ok - if you say so...
(Ford)