one of the world's best drivers talks about ford quality nobody expects a luxury car to be quick but watch this continental mark NUMBER_TOKEN lsc back in NUMBER_TOKEN ford introduced the mark ii as the first car of its new flagship continental division it would soon evolve into one of the classic personal luxury coupes of the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs competing directly with cadillac's eldorado although sold at lincoln dealerships the mark series was badged as a continental and didn't officially become a lincoln until NUMBER_TOKEN although the mark NUMBER_TOKEN would be the last lincoln would later pay homage to the mark name with its mk named vehicles in the NUMBER_TOKENs this is a story of the lincoln mark series this is my old car quality you can feel before you'll feel the quality because quality is job thanks for the many suggestions to review the lincoln mark series i've also gotten requests for the ls the town car and the lincoln continental which served as companion to the mark series during much of its production each of these cars are being considered for future episodes before i get started i would like to thank surfsharkvpn for sponsoring today's video surfshark is the fastest growing vpn brand in the world and is an affordable and easy to use vpn service that can help protect your online data by stopping third parties from accessing your information online this includes scanning your credit cards to see if any of your personal data has been breached surfshark also allows you to view content that is not available in your area just log into your surfshark account and change your region you can even block popups with their cookie pop-up locker click the link in the description below and enter the promo code my old car and surf shark will give you an extra NUMBER_TOKEN off and three extra months for free all that and a NUMBER_TOKEN-day money-back guarantee now back to today's episode although ford's lincoln division has typically been paired historically with cadillac as its chief rival from whatever angle you view these cars lincoln's styling is obviously more distinctive ford's post-war plan was to create a new division to slot above lincoln and marketed as one of the most exclusive automobiles in the world the name of that new division was continel taken from a lincoln model that began in NUMBER_TOKEN the inaugural model line for the new continental division was the mark ii an aim which ford believed would align them more with european automakers who used the mark nomenclature to designate successive generations of each model and they still do today except in this case mark would be the model name itself and be numbered as two for being a successor to the pre-war continental model introduced for NUMBER_TOKEN the continental mark ii was not only ford's most expensive model but the most expensive american car that year at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN which is over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN today you could buy two cadillacs for that price other than the spare tire hump on the rear deck lid which was actually functional back then considering where the spare tire was located the rest of the car was fairly subdued compared to more daring designs that were becoming common in the late NUMBER_TOKENs with the mark ii being a mostly hand assembled car that expense couldn't be maintained long term later in NUMBER_TOKEN the continental division was merged
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