GimmeMy1985
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Oh Yes... There will be blood.
~Lynch
Let the Forbe-odies hit the Floor.
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Oh Yes... There will be blood.
~Lynch
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What's a Forbe odie, who's going to bleed, and why?
Forbe-odie is a combination of Forbe and Bodie, i was playing off the drowning pool song ¨Let the bodies hit the floor¨
And everyone will bleed for this..
Forbes CLEARLY payed insult to one of the greatest luxury cars in American History. If you cant afford the car, guess what? Chances are:
YOU WONT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE GAS, ASS****
Car prices are a direct result of the gas they get, the Rolls Royce Phantom gets 11MPG and is 340 thousand dollars. The Lower the MPG, the higher the price.
If you want a toyota corolla for 9 grand, enjoy your 4000000000 miles to the gallon and the permanent dunce cap you will adorn as well as being cramped, dirty and have a car made from plastic. If you want a Lincoln Town car, enjoy your class, the highest gas millage for a luxury car of the size, every luxury amenity you can choke on, the unprecedented space and comfort, the audiophile sound system, the car´s complete anchor to the ground as per the 4100 Pounds of pure power, the easy handling as a result of the RWD, and overall, looking like a total bad ass even doing mundane things like shopping.
I need to go and buy every town car I can while there is still time!!
~Lynch
What's so bad about 16-24 mpg?
Say you take the combined 19 mpg at 100,000 miles over 5 years. That's 5,263 gallons.
Do the same with your fabled Toyota Corrola at 30 mpg combined rating. OK, now we bought 3,333 gallons.
The difference is 1,930 gallons over 5 years or 386 gallons per year. Geesh, 32 gallons per month, 8 gallons per week, just over 1 gallon per day difference.
Even at $4 per gallon, I'd ride in the Town Car any day, every day.
Say you take the combined 19 mpg at 100,000 miles over 5 years. That's 5,263 gallons.
Do the same with your fabled Toyota Corrola at 30 mpg combined rating. OK, now we bought 3,333 gallons.
The difference is 1,930 gallons over 5 years or 386 gallons per year. Geesh, 32 gallons per month, 8 gallons per week, just over 1 gallon per day difference.
Even at $4 per gallon, I'd ride in the Town Car any day, every day.
But think of the carbon footprint.
Hmmm, but the carbon emissions from the Town Car, 2 Mark VIIIs and a full size pickup are offset by the carbon credits from the kids' Scion tc and Dodge Neon.
Come to think of it, my driveway would make most enviromentalists gag. LOL
Oh, and yours ain't much better missy.
I like the Town Cars too, I just wish Ford put more technology into them. I wonder what kind of mileage they could have got if they put the Mark VIII engines in them. How about a Hybrid Town Car?
Don't get me going on this carbon footprint stuff. Carbon is a great element! We'd be dead without it. If they are worried about carbon dioxide they should say that.
It's as bad as these low sodium food freaks. I hope my food has low sodium, considering that sodium is a highly toxic metal. Sodium cloride (lets call it salt) is also essential for life and most people have no problems with it.
Don't get me going on this carbon footprint stuff.
Carbon is a great element! We'd be dead without it. If they are worried about carbon dioxide they should say that.It's as bad as these low sodium food freaks. I hope my food has low sodium, considering that sodium is a highly toxic metal.
Sodium cloride (lets call it salt) is also essential for life and most people have no problems with it.BlackIceLSC
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For its purpose, the Lincoln Towncar, with 72% of its sales going to the Livery industry, is BY FAR the most cost effective vehicle in production today, from a company-car standpoint.
production costs are lower than they would be had the car under-gone a face lift in 02.
The car is not identical to a 1998 model. It shares a similar design, and the same over-all platform, but is more reliable due to the stronger LIVERY package materials incorporated in the chassis.
Many of the parts are interchangeable throughout the 2003-2008 model year.
All things considered, the Lincoln Towncar is still the flagship Livery vehicle in America.
behemoth?
Nope.
utility. The industry standard has proven that although many vehicles out there can do the same job in the LIvery industry, none can do it for the same cost of operation as a Lincoln Towncar. Many have tried...all have failed.
so in simple terms, when one asks "why would someone buy a 4300 lb behemoth?"
I just say-because dollar for dollar, it is the best value from an industry standpoint.
averaging 260k miles before any major repairs are needed sounds pretty darn reliable in my book. Lets see a Toyota do that after it has served a life being treated like a taxi cab.
as for MPG...they do great, all things considered. You see, you have to look at a car for more than its "figures". You have to consider the cost of ownership over its usable life. $4.00/gallon is costly as far as fuel prices go. But since the car requires little more than routine maintenance to operate, it's actually pretty cheap in the long run.
Furthermore, the Towncar is assembled as a complete modular chassis. It rolls off the assembly line knowing that it can either head to a Limousine Manufacturer's facility, get cut in half, and the chassis can be lengthened easily, efficiently, and cost-effectively while still maintaining crash test standards. You can either drive it home, or drive it to a plant, cut it in half, stretch it, and put it back together, and everything will still work the way it was designed to the day it rolled off the assembly line.
My next car will probably be a 2003+ Lincoln Towncar, Ford Crown Victoria, or Mercury Grand Marquis.
as for carbon footprint. Studies have shown that a 5 yr old SUV has left a lower carbon footprint during its entire life than the carbon footprint left from BUILDING 1 Prius.
production costs are lower than they would be had the car under-gone a face lift in 02.
The car is not identical to a 1998 model. It shares a similar design, and the same over-all platform, but is more reliable due to the stronger LIVERY package materials incorporated in the chassis.
Many of the parts are interchangeable throughout the 2003-2008 model year.
All things considered, the Lincoln Towncar is still the flagship Livery vehicle in America.
behemoth?
Nope.
utility. The industry standard has proven that although many vehicles out there can do the same job in the LIvery industry, none can do it for the same cost of operation as a Lincoln Towncar. Many have tried...all have failed.
so in simple terms, when one asks "why would someone buy a 4300 lb behemoth?"
I just say-because dollar for dollar, it is the best value from an industry standpoint.
averaging 260k miles before any major repairs are needed sounds pretty darn reliable in my book. Lets see a Toyota do that after it has served a life being treated like a taxi cab.
as for MPG...they do great, all things considered. You see, you have to look at a car for more than its "figures". You have to consider the cost of ownership over its usable life. $4.00/gallon is costly as far as fuel prices go. But since the car requires little more than routine maintenance to operate, it's actually pretty cheap in the long run.
Furthermore, the Towncar is assembled as a complete modular chassis. It rolls off the assembly line knowing that it can either head to a Limousine Manufacturer's facility, get cut in half, and the chassis can be lengthened easily, efficiently, and cost-effectively while still maintaining crash test standards. You can either drive it home, or drive it to a plant, cut it in half, stretch it, and put it back together, and everything will still work the way it was designed to the day it rolled off the assembly line.
My next car will probably be a 2003+ Lincoln Towncar, Ford Crown Victoria, or Mercury Grand Marquis.
as for carbon footprint. Studies have shown that a 5 yr old SUV has left a lower carbon footprint during its entire life than the carbon footprint left from BUILDING 1 Prius.
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Misanthropy
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Driller I hope U will give me your TC before you get old and start hitting stuff with it
Driller I hope U will give me your TC before you get old and start hitting stuff with it
Fat chance bud.
While shopping with the wife the other day, I bought a new CD for the Town Car since my musical tastes differ from the wifey and I knew there was one slot empty in the CD changer. When she was checking out, she was suprised her 'old man' had bought a 'Kid Rock' CD. LOL!
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What's so bad about 16-24 mpg?
Say you take the combined 19 mpg at 100,000 miles over 5 years. That's 5,263 gallons.
Do the same with your fabled Toyota Corrola at 30 mpg combined rating. OK, now we bought 3,333 gallons.
The difference is 1,930 gallons over 5 years or 386 gallons per year. Geesh, 32 gallons per month, 8 gallons per week, just over 1 gallon per day difference.
Even at $4 per gallon, I'd ride in the Town Car any day, every day.
You guys had it GOOD when you were at 4 dollars/G. Up here in Canada I was paying a good amount more. Perhaps more like 5.50 on good days per gallon. It is down to 70 freakin cents a liter. I Can´t even begin to think about the deals you guys are getting down there.
And good calculations, I am TOTALLY printing those off and giving those to my local Lincoln dealer to hand out.
BLACKICE:
I RENTED a Kia Rio. This little blue deformed egg only had 40k on it. It was brand new.
With only 40k it felt UNSTABLE. Another 40k and it will blow into a million pretty metallic bits of blue crap.
I had a 1988 for a little while, I borrowed it from a friend, it had.... 320-340k. It drove like a dream. Not a sound. This man had put less then 2000 worth of work into it and he has had it for 15 years. Most of the work went into rustproofing because.. you know... the cold wet winters are not good for a Florida Car.
And for the books, The 2000 TC is not a copy of the 90s models. It got rounded out in the 90s and that was a significant visible change, but in the newer models everything has gotten a facelift. The grill, the front curves, how the back rounds out past the wheels, the lights, the trunk dip, and don´t even get me started on the inside.
Wikipedia also listed that it has some sort of below average technical performance rating.. They must have confused it with something else. Perhaps they were tired, had not had their coffee that fateful day to do the testing and ended up in a Mercury by accident.
It is all these hip baby boomers ruining the sanctity of Luxury Vehicles. They are making people feel BAD for driving actual cars and not giant baby booties. These middle class poppers ruined the environment in the first place with their suburbias and Kia Rondos. And now IIIII have to sacrifice my car (a car they couldn't afford in the first place) to make them feel better about the situation they made for themselves? Sorry, Buddy, that your kid wont have a world to live in as a result of your carelessness, but it ain't my car that´s the problem..I think the problem is that bright yellow thing parked between Your house and the other house that looks exactly like your house.
~Lynch
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Fat chance bud.
While shopping with the wife the other day, I bought a new CD for the Town Car since my musical tastes differ from the wifey and I knew there was one slot empty in the CD changer. When she was checking out, she was suprised her 'old man' had bought a 'Kid Rock' CD. LOL!
And no. That Town Car is mine. Unless you would like me to arrange for you to be burried in it, it is going to MOI.
AND THAT IS A GREAT IDEA.
Lincoln Town Coffins anyone?
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I know, i drove past the lincoln dealership here as well.
Nothing.
Nada.
Zilch.
They dont want to sell Town Cars, they want sales to go down. I would not be surprised at all if they reported a 50% loss on the Town Car sales when they did not even put any out to be sold. They are so desperate to be somehow immune to this Recession they will do anything.
TOWN CAR SELLS, MULLALY SMELLS.
Oh, and Blackice, one last thing.
It is true, The Town car is insanely cost efficient to produce. That is why they rounded it out in the first place.
Now you have a possible 3 or more cars you can produce JUST from the Town Car Limo. Crown Viccy, Town Car, or Grand Marquis.
~Lynch
But think of the carbon footprint.
look at his sig pic, his avatar..
his middle name is carbon footprint.
he's singlehandedly keeping the tire industry alive in his region.
what are you doing for the tire industry in your area "missy"..*LMAO*
you need to go out and do your OWN smoky burnout, and no "the boys burnout" dont get you off the hook.
So who here is willing to buy a new 45k towncar... only to have it be worth 20k 1 yr from now.
I can bet money on the fact that NONE of you bought one new... why? Because depreciation is horrible and they are so widely available used.
Don't get me wrong i love these cars. But they are sold with primarily the limo service in mind and they will that void well since these cars driven into oblivion in a short 5 years or so. And repair costs are cheap since they are so common and share most parts with crown vics etc.
There are much better cars out there for the money if purchased new.
With regards to the cab comments...
We have plenty of Prius/Camry cabs in the city now... the CV is starting to be replaced.
I can bet money on the fact that NONE of you bought one new... why? Because depreciation is horrible and they are so widely available used.
Don't get me wrong i love these cars. But they are sold with primarily the limo service in mind and they will that void well since these cars driven into oblivion in a short 5 years or so. And repair costs are cheap since they are so common and share most parts with crown vics etc.
There are much better cars out there for the money if purchased new.
With regards to the cab comments...
We have plenty of Prius/Camry cabs in the city now... the CV is starting to be replaced.
GimmeMy1985
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So who here is willing to buy a new 45k towncar... only to have it be worth 20k 1 yr from now.
I can bet money on the fact that NONE of you bought one new... why? Because depreciation is horrible and they are so widely available used.
Don't get me wrong i love these cars. But they are sold with primarily the limo service in mind and they will that void well since these cars driven into oblivion in a short 5 years or so. And repair costs are cheap since they are so common and share most parts with crown vics etc.
There are much better cars out there for the money if purchased new.
With regards to the cab comments...
We have plenty of Prius/Camry cabs in the city now... the CV is starting to be replaced.
I am buying one. My friend back in BC bought 2, one for him, and one for his wife. Seems driller just bought one, and as soon as those horrible hippies stop clipping coupons and call it ¨for the sake of the environment¨, the Town Car will be in full demand as it used to be.
The otherl incoln products are NO BETTER, they are not better on gas, they are not better on anything, the Town Car was the last fully loaded charmer Lincoln had, their pathetic attempt to stay hip is a NO GO.
They kick the town car, that is the end of lincoln.