Lincoln Motor Company
The Lincoln Motor Company is an automobile company in the United States. It is a part of the Ford Motor Company that sells cars in North America. The current Lincoln cars in the United States include the Lincoln Nautilus, Lincoln Aviator, Lincoln Corsair, and the Lincoln Navigator.
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Fate | Acquired by Ford in 1922, becoming a division of it |
| Founded | August 1917 (as "Lincoln Motor Company")[3]:4 |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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Key people | Dianne Craig (President)[5] |
| Products | Luxury cars |
| Parent | Ford Motor Company (1922–present)[2] |
| Website | lincoln.com |
Lincoln is the luxury brand of Ford. It makes upscale luxury vehicles. The company was founded by Henry M. Leland in 1917 as its own company. It was bought by Ford in 1922. The brand is named after Abraham Lincoln.
Current production vehicles
Vehicles not sold in the core American market
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Z | 2022 | 2022 | – | Executive/Mid-size luxury car, closely related to the Ford Mondeo | |
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 NAVIGATOR |
Navigator | 1997 | 2025 | – | Full-size luxury SUV, closely related to the Ford Expedition. | |
 NAVIGATOR L |
Navigator L | 2006 | 2025 | – | Long Wheelbase version of Lincoln Navigator. The largest non-limousine vehicle ever produced by Lincoln. | |
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Aviator | 2002 | 2019 | 2025 | Mid-size luxury crossover SUV, closely related to the Ford Explorer. | |
 NAUTILUS |
Nautilus | 2019 | 2024 | – | Mid-size luxury crossover SUV, closely related to the Ford Edge. Formerly the Lincoln MKX until 2018. Will be Imported to America from China for second generation | |
 CORSAIR
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Corsair | 2019 | 2019 | 2023 | Compact luxury crossover SUV, closely related to the Ford Escape. | |
Former production vehicles
Automobiles
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L series | 1922 | 1930 | 1 | The first automobile produced by Lincoln |
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K series | 1931 | 1940 | 1 | |
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Zephyr | 1936 | 1942 | 1 | Mid-size |
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Continental | 1939–1948, 1958–2002, 2017–2020 | 10 | Mid-sized and full-sized luxury car | |
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Custom | 1941–1942 1955–1955 |
1 | Sold in touring sedan and limousine versions | |
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EL-Series | 1949 | 1951 | 1 | Full-size luxury car |
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Cosmopolitan | 1949 | 1954 | 2 | |
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Capri | 1952 | 1959 | 3 | Introduced as a premium trim variant of the two-door Lincoln Cosmopolitan |
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Premiere | 1956 | 1960 | 1 | Full-size car |
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Continental Mark II | 1957 | 1957 | 1 | Marketed by the Continental division of Ford; technically, "not a Lincoln" |
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Continental Mark III | 1969 | 1971 | 1 | Personal luxury car |
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Continental Mark IV | 1971 | 1976 | 1 | Personal luxury car |
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Continental Mark V | 1977 | 1979 | 1 | Personal luxury car |
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Versailles | 1977 | 1980 | 1 | Mid-size car |
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Continental Mark VI | 1980 | 1983 | 1 | Personal luxury car |
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Continental Mark VII | 1980 | 1992 | 1 | Personal luxury car; switched to the simpler name "Mark VII" in 1984 |
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Town Car | 1981 | 2011 | 3 | Full-size sedan |
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Mark VIII | 1993 | 1998 | 1 | Personal luxury car |
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LS | 1999 | 2006 | 1 | Sedan |
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MKX | 2006 | 2018 | 2 | mid-size crossover SUV |
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MKZ | 2006 | 2020 | 2 | mid-size sedan |
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MKS | 2008 | 2016 | 1 | full-size sedan |
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MKT | 2010 | 2019 | 1 | Crossover SUV |
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MKC | 2014 | 2019 | 1 | Compact crossover |
Trucks
| Image | Model | Intr. | Disc. | Gen. | Description |
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Blackwood | 2001 | 2002 | 1 | Pickup truck |
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Mark LT | 2006 | 2008 | 2 | Pickup truck, continued production in Mexico, 2006–14 |
Lincoln Motor Company Media
2011 Desert Classic, La Quinta, CA
1959 Continental Mark IV Town Car formal-roof sedan
1978 Lincoln Versailles photographed in Laval, Quebec, Canada at Les chauds vendredis.
1998-2000 Lincoln Navigator
Hood ornament, Continental Mark II
FDR's Presidential Limousine
Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1950 Lincoln Bubbletop (30914712224)
Kennedy Car 1961 Lincoln Continental (31609510632) (cropped)
Presidential limousine on display at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, United States.
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References
- ↑ "A short history of the Mercury brand". Ford. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Davis, Michael W. R. (2002). Ford Dynasty: A Photographic History. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-0-7385-2039-1. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lincoln Motor Company Briefing Book (PDF). New York: Ford Motor Company. December 3, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 3, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
1917 August: After departing a management position at the Cadillac Division of General Motors, Henry Leland and his son Wilfred Leland form the Lincoln Motor Company, which produces aircraft engines to fill World War I government contracts.
- ↑ "Our Brands: Lincoln Vehicles". Ford Motor Corporation. 2012. Archived from the original on April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
- ↑ Ford. "Joy Falotico". Press release. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/joy-falotico.html. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
