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An early leak of the 2017 Lincoln Continental has popped up online at FordInsideNews.com (via AutoGuide) ahead of its reveal at the North American International Auto Show next week.
If the picture is to be believed, it appears Lincoln has kept to most of its promises, short of the LED headlights — which may or may not be on higher trims.
The Lincoln’s lower front fascia appears to be mildly different as well, although from that low-res picture, I still can’t see any noticeably different door handles.
We’ll find out when TTAC reports from Detroit next week at the NAIAS — or maybe just from the airport because I still haven’t figured out how to get a ride.
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I don’t know how accurate the headlights from that GeoCities are. I’ve seen Continental test mules with the, concept consistent, LED headlights, in Dearborn and Allen Park. Maybe they are optional?
I’ll can let you know what they look like on Sunday.
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1097944_2017-continental-spy-shots
Let’s hope they do it correctly:
LED projectors and not the LED reflectors that the Explorer uses with a halogen high beam. (It’s worse with the non LED fog lights—a bright clean light up top and yellow halogen fog lamp at the bottom).
It should have LED fogs.
Is that another left over design from their days owning Jaguar?
The changes to the headlights and grill make it look like a ten year old, $15K Maserati Quattroporte.
I like it so far.
I like it too. That *almost* looks like a not stupid roofline.
Still, it will be a kind of hard for me to buy an AWD turbo car.
There must be a way to fix it.
Ford 6.2L Boss V8 swap?
Can it be done in a CD4?
The Continental has the rear diff from the Focus RS and the rear suspension from the Mustang. Someone should try.
(It’s probably a very bad idea that will not work)
I thought this was a transverse mount with a voodoo transaxle?
Like Ford hasn’t tried transversely mounted V8s before? That went super well, right?
And yes, it has much voodoo. Black magic of epic proportions.
They mounted the 4.6 Mod motor as such, not sure a 6.2 would fit. Depends on how large the engine compartment happens to be… I’d also worry about the voodoo transaxle dealing with the extra torque of a 6.2 V8. But it sounds like it might be possible.
I want to believe!
The voodoo transaxle can handle the torque. The Continental will come with the 3.5TT that pushes over 450 HP and lb-ft of torque. This is not a reasonable suggestion, but I would enjoy it none the less.
With the headlamps revised it’s starting to look like an old Quattroporte.
That looks like one of the stock photos an automaker would have on its webpage, as an icon. The fact that it had to be blown up suggests that this is exactly what it is…and that some web developer accidentally pushed it as an asset to the production site.
Plus, nearly-complete prototypes have been spotted wearing the full LED lights, something Ford wouldn’t have bothered with if it didn’t plan to actually release them to the market. I bet the LEDs are just optional.
This is your best avatar yet; you should keep it. So says the laser cruise control that I am. :)
And I eventually expect Principal Dan to admit he faked his death and is working on an Police Squad sequel.
Mimi Du Jour: Is this some kind of bust?
Frank: Yes, ma’am, it’s very impressive, but we need to ask you a few questions.
I have a message for you from Vincent Ludwig!
*Shoots gun
Why thank you! I actually didn’t realize what your avatar was until just now. Which car is that from?
It’s the laser cruise control straight off my LS430. The technology no one uses anymore because who wants a sensor technology that stops working when the lens gets dirty?
And Deadweight, you’re outta my league. ;)
You’ve never seen me dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDT9Aok3QXE
Kyree, I think WaftableTorque just hit on you, bro.
WaftableTorque, no love for my mug?
Ha!
I was expecting a picture of the Cadillac logo in flames for you, honestly….
The headlamps in the “concept” look way better.
The headlights above make it look like a Taurus with a Jaguar grill.
Lincoln needs my help really badly if they want to build a car that has any level of appeal whatsoever. This has got to be a joke.
That has about as much appeal as a 2010 Ford Fusion.
Looks like a KIA K900…………… :=(
I see Volvo in the grill / front.
Those are clearly low-line headlamps/wheel combo. I bet high trim Reserve Luxury Collection Congressional Town Sedans get the LEDs.
You keep your Congressional, I’m rolling the Presidential Town Sedan.
I would like a Spinnaker version.
Actually surprised how closely this matches the concept (headlights aside). I hope the interior is similarly close at least in higher-trim versions. The spy shots we saw looked very bland, but maybe that was also a base model.
I’ve been cynical about this car from the start, but the bland interior in the spy photos even surprised me with how lacking it was in feeling special or premium. It looked like something straight out of a decently equipped Kia Optima to me. Now that isn’t terrible, but it won’t cut it against the cars this is ostensibly going after in the market.
Not bad, but can I get one with a proper Lincoln grill?
Nope. They wasted it on the older MKZ. Just be thankful they didn’t put the baleen whale teeth on it.
“Baleen” and “teeth” are mutually exclusive. But we know what you meant.
I didn’t mind the baleen grille at all. I really like how it was adapted for the current Navigator. But I like the upcoming Continental grille too.
It’s like they took the concept version and asked their designers, “can we make it just different enough that’ll it lose all of the cool factor and instead just be another design miss for our tragically cursed brand?”
The design screams “I am cheap Chevy compact!” not the required “I am an EV and I care about the planet!!!” for it to sell.
When are yall going to the auto show?
Those headlights look far more legal than the concept ones.
I love it. I love the strong nose, the upright greenhouse, it looks big and muscular and American. I’m salivating at the thought of one in black with a plastic mesh grill and dog dishes named Crown Victoria.
It is surprising to see that much greenhouse on an American car that isn’t a truck or SUV. Refreshing!
With this 8-bit rendering I’m saving judgement for later.
It gives you a good example to build in Minecraft.
Coming back and looking at it another few times it is starting to look like a bad photoshop job on a Lincoln LS.
I hope it has the same interior quality and reliability as the LS!
After spending some time looking at the images of Lincoln test vehicles I do believe this image is far from accurate.
The lines don’t quite fit, even the headlight shape is not similar or the same as any of the concept or test vehicle images.
This is a far better looking vehicle than a Caddy.
As for the engine, even the 2.7 EcoThirst would work.
I think it’s a weird angle computer rendering set to parallel, not perspective view.
Hurts to look at this bloody thing, like a Google Images result that never fully resolves.
It’s like I’m browsing on Yahoo Autos circa 1997, with my Netscape Navigator. The blue bar has a ways to go still.
You can be sure it will lose the exterior lower chrome, the beautiful blue interior as seen on the concept, will be much blander and will probably carry one of Fords dreary underachieving Egoboost 4 cylinder engines.
Where are the bloody door handles?
You don’t need door handles. The doors will be voice activated. Whoops! Forget I wrote that. The doors will be “remotely operated”.
I would really like to be enthusiastic for this car–I have been a Ford fan for a while, and Lincoln deserves to return to prominence (or even relevance)–but face it; from the released interior shots (showing the wide center console) and exterior spy photos (with the telltale front-wheel-drive-long front overhang), it’s pretty clear that this Continental is probably little more than a glorified Taurus.