Talk:Lincoln Continental

message: Even though the Mark was sold as Lincoln Continental Mark, the Mark was a seperate model and has a seperate article that discusses all Marks from the 1956 Continental Mark II to the 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII. While references to the Mark make sense, two sections dedicted for the Mark do not, the Continental name applies to the four-door flagship in this article. Thanks. Gerdbrendel 22:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mark references 

message: Can anyone defend the assertion under the 1998 heading that the car was discontinued "because of confusion with the Bentley Continental"--?  I'd like to see the buyer so addlepated he couldn't tell the two apart! :-) RivGuySC 01:42, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny explaination. But I replaced it with the "real one." According to Lincoln the Continental wasn't different enough from the Town Car and LS, even though it was quite smaller than the former and the company's only front wheel drive car in the line-up. Signaturebrendel 01:49, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discontinuation

message: Your contribution confuses me.  Maybe you could revise it or explain it?  Bok269 18:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the wording as the edit was confusing. Signaturebrendel 20:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Take Me Higher 

message: The claims made at the end of the 1970 Lincoln Continental section left me puzzled. After G.M. downsized in 1977 the Lincoln Continental was the largest car of the market until Lincoln downsized in 1980. It was 233 inches long rather than 225 inches as claimed. It was 225 inches long from 1970 through 1972 but acquired 5 mph bumpers in front in 1973 and in the rear in 1974 (as all cars did). Thus it was the longest car made from 1977 through 1979. It also had the longest wheelbase (127") and widest track (64.3") of any car made during this period of time. And finally, it was easily the roomiest car made at this time, with 111 and 115 cubic feet of passenger space as a coupe and sedan respectively, along with a trunk having 23 cubic feet of space (by E.P.A. standards). I suspect the author of attributing too much weight to length (no pun intended) and although the 1977-1979 Lincoln Continental was the longest car made during this period, he was not aware of this fact. Width, volume (especially shoulder room), track width and weight are (in my opinion) the characteristics that make large cars large. With the exception of the track width of the pre-downsized full-sized Big Three and the front seat shoulder room of the 1977-1978 Oldsmobile Toronado, all the cars of this period were smaller by these citeria, when compared to the 57-66 Imperials, the neglected (especially in this article) 58-60 Lincolns, as well as the 1971-1976 G.M. C-bodies (and, not counting the tacked-on 5 mph bumpers, these three bodystyles were in fact longer). The Mark V, especially, is an extreme expression of the impactical styling of the time. It was based on Ford's bloated pre-downsized mid-sized platform and consequently, despite its prodigious length (all bumpers and elongated hood) and weight, was actually relatively puny in terms of, shoulder room, headroom, rear seat legroom and trunk space. It earns the distinction of being perhaps the heaviest and longest (and most gas-guzzling) midsize (by E.P.A. standards) coupes of all times. I am a huge fan (not literally) of the largest automobiles and own three (a 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV coupe, a 1966 Imperial Crown convertible and a 1974 Buick Estate Wagon). I do not consider the personal luxury coupes of the late seventies (a fad of the disco era) to merit the consideration as competitors for the title. The 1970-1979 Lincoln Continental does however. In particular, the 1974 coupe is perhaps one of the largest coupes ever made. I suggest that for exterior statistics future writers of automotive superlatives read the Standard Catalog of American Cars series (Krause Publications). It is full of misinformation (especially the 1946-1975 edition) but it is a practical starting point. As for interior dimensions, sales brochures, data books, and the Consumer Report's annual automotive edition are the best sources.
Sadowski 18:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1977-1979 Lincoln Continental 

message: This is all under the 1968 heading: "Suicide-door Lincolns were used as the US Presidential limousines during the 1960s and into the 1970s. John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a 1961 convertible, which was later armored and converted into a sedan for greater security. This famous automobile is currently housed at the Henry Ford Museum. Another famous event involving this model of Continental was when a brand new 1964 model was mercilessly crushed into a cube in a junkyard compactor in the James Bond film Goldfinger, to the horror of many moviegoers. (The filmmakers were not so wasteful: the moving car is a new 1964, but after a cutaway, the car picked up by the crane to be destroyed is a 1963 without an engine)."
: Some of this, such as the discussion of the car in which President Kennedy was assassinated, is covered further up the page. The discussion of the Goldfinger car crushing needs to be somewhere else, since the movie was not made in '68, and the cars involved were not '68 models. 4.243.206.176 02:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 1968?

message: Hello all... 
An image used in the article, specifically :Image:IMG 0339 Desktop.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue.  The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive.  It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard.  As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article.  If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 21:37, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image needs replacement 

message: Is a spare tire compartment on the back of the trunk a notable feature of some Continental models?  I can't tell from the current crop of pictures.
Tashiro (talk) 05:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  And Takes Some Pictures Of The Back End 

message: It was the Town Car that replaced the Continental, not the LS. 
Charleyhorses (talk) 01:28, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The original Continental, yes. The latest incarnation was replaced by the LS. --Sable232 (talk) 04:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Successor

message: I edited the 1958-1960 Lincoln Continental section and other sections so it made more sense. The 1958-1960 is a much maligned car that is highly collectible today. It deserved better.
Sadowski (talk) 01:34, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1958-1960 Lincoln Continental Section 

message: For the most part, the expansion of the article is going along well, although i do have one concern.  There is already a separate article dedicated to the Lincoln Mark series (all of the Marks except the Mark VI have their own article, as well) and this expansion is starting to duplicate it.  
The re-writing has also started up another potential question:  did the standard Continental disappear for 1981 when the Town Car became its own model? (the Continental was a 1980 full-size car and 1982 "mid-size car", but what about 1981?) 
--SteveCof00 (talk) 21:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  re-writing the article 

message: Is there a way to go about fixing the content re: the Mark-related cars since as the page is, this basically duplicates the Mark series article on here (it deserves its own space).  --SteveCof00 (talk) 03:06, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixing the duplication

message: I don't care if it's a Lincoln Continental forum. I mean, come on guys, this ain't Yellow Pages, Reddit or Craigslist. It's Wikipedia, a totally free encyclopedia. 166.137.242.96 (talk) 05:05, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please don't spam your favorite forums 

message: There was never such an engine designation.  The 400 was never referred to as a "Cleveland".
 Even the Wikipedia article on the subject correctly states "Ford's official name for the 400 V8 contains no additional designations - the proper nomenclature is simply "400."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_335_engine#400
 I don't know how to fix this. Thanks 76.168.51.241 (talk) 08:58, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "400 Cleveland" ???  

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Admittedly, any page dealing with 10 different versions of a car is not going to be short, but I do have a suggestion to make things a bit more navigable.  In eventual future, it would be a good idea to start creating pages for some of the different generations of the car to bring the section lengths under control.  Ideally, something like the 1939-1948 and the Continental Mark II subsections would be a good idea in terms of size.  
In need of own pages:
* 1958-1960 (needs attention otherwise anyways)
* 1961-1969 (big enough to become its own article)
* 1970-1979 (see above)
* 1982-1987 (too large to shrink)
* 1988-1994 and 1995-2002 (see above)
* 2017- (build a [good] article before it takes a life of its own)
-Thoughts? --SteveCof00 (talk) 10:54, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructure of page 

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message: The 1988-2002 Lincoln Continental was a very long car due to its overhangs, but it was actually a mid-size car just like the 1986-2004 Cadillac Seville. It absolutely competed with likes of the BMW 5 Series, Mercedes E-Class, Acura RL, Infiniti J/I/M, and Lexus ES/GS (and maybe even the Q45 and LS which arguably were in-betweeners with mid-size and full-size). Another thing too, Continentals were based on the Taurus and Sable MIDSIZE sedans 174.193.137.146 (talk) 22:38, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed to mid-size