Yeah I wasn't bashing the car- I LOVED mine and I am on a lookout for another.

Mine also had the original tranny at 300k- shifted perfect. But I did drive others that had failing trannys..

Pretty much everything worked too- from the power antenna to the A/C (ice cold r-12 but not enough power for proper cooling) the only thing that never worked was the external temp reading.

As for cooling my car always ran on the 1/4 of the scale. On the hottest days in traffic with the A/C on it rarely made mid range. I got it to 3/4 and into the bottom of the red ONCE and I was WOT up a 10% grade racing a friend for about 2 miles... Also it was before I fixed the Aux fan (needed a fuse) After that it never did get hot.

Also brought it camping and it was loaded with everyones camping gear +2 people on the interstate for an hour with the A/C on @ 75-80 mph with no problems..

not counting driving it home from Maryland to Upstate NY ~700 miles...


Parts were always easy to find.


ALSO- while its true they were introduced in 1983 in Europe- the US only saw 1985 and 1986 model years. I believe the lincolns were either 84-87 or 86 and 87 only... I can't remember

And they are a sports sedan. They are capable of revving to a 5,500rpm redline and they make good power from 2k- 4,500 rpm. The transmissions are pretty adaptive- when you hit the kick down switch it gets up and moves

Someone Flogging one on YouTube Here