Lincoln's redesigned Town Car combines modern looks with a driving experience straight out of 1975.
From the February 1990 issue of Car and Driver.Some experts say the last great vehicle America built was the Saturn V rocket that put man on the moon. The Apollo launch vehicle stood 40 stories tall, weighed 6 million pounds, produced 7.5 million pounds of thrust, and consumed 202,760 gallons of fuel per minute. A conspicuous consumer in the grandest sense, it burned liquid oxygen and space-age kerosene at fifteen tons per second.
's job of getting us there and back became a shining example of achievement under pressure. Years later in the automobile business, gas shortages created a similar—if more commercial—pressure to achieve. The results were gratifying, but less inspirational. When the gas pumps coughed up dust, car companies suddenly became almost as intent as
. Even such stalwarts as Cadillac and Lincoln began to whittle away at the size, weight, and shapes of their road-hugging traditions. In record time, manufacturers scrambling up the steep learning curve became faster and slicker at their jobs. Vehicles—even the Lincoln Town Car—lost tens of linear inches, dozens of cubic inches, and hundreds of excess pounds. Lincoln did not gladly impel the Town Car toward svelteness and increased sophistication.
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