Lincoln Navigator
Details info: Navigator
(1997 - 2002)
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Lincoln Navigator SUV 5d
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When Cadillac founder Henry M. Leland returned from building aircraft engines for World War I, he went back into the car business by creating Lincoln, a car named after his favorite president. Henry Ford purchased the company from Leland in 1922 when Lincoln was facing financial troubles.
By 1937 the design emphasis was on simplistic styling, something that Lincolns have been known for since. The car that pulled the high-dollar car through the lean years was the Zephyr. Like other plush brands, it was the smaller, simpler models that produced the surviving capital, but the Zephyr was highly sophisticated.
Like most of the auto industry, World War II offered a hefty challenge to Lincoln, who at war\'s end offered revised 1942 models, but the name Zephyr had been dropped.
Now sharing the basic Mercury platforms, Lincoln moved into the 1950\'s with a look conceived as more modern that the competition.
During the 1970\'s, Lincoln sedans returned to standard rear doors, introduced hidden headlights, and utilized the Ford 460 cubic inch V8 all around. The Mark III gave way to the Mark IV in 1972, a much longer, wider, and lower car than its predecessor. Unlike Lincolns of the 1960s and before, the 1970s saw heavier styling, less glass area, and more typical American styling.
The only remarkable news from the 1980\'s would prove to be the Mark VII, replacing the very unloved Mark VI.
The 1990\'s saw a redesigned Town Car, still based on the Crown Victoria, but looking very different than the Blue-Oval brother. The Mark VII was discontinued for the Mark VIII, a technological marvel, featuring speed-lowering suspension, a sophisticated 4.6-Liter, DOHC, 32V, V8 producing 280 horses, and later 290, all wrapped up in a new, very slippery body. Today, Lincoln is comprised of the Town Car, Continental, Navigator, Blackwood, and LS.
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