They are misfit and strange in our new day,
In Sixty-One they were not quite so strange,
Before the Fords, before the day of the Fords.
Before the Fords, before the day of the Fords.
Stephen
Vincent Benėt, John Brown’s Body, 1927
Abraham Lincoln said “the best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” Of course, that's only until it stops coming at all. Then -- if you’re anything like Lincoln the Emancipator -- you belong to the ages.
What then of Lincoln the Navigator – Ford
Motor’s Columbiad of an SUV? Reports are mixed. Some say that Ford
CEO Alan Mulally is intent on having the truck-based four-by join the Lincoln
Town Car in belonging to the ages; while others hold that it's only this generation
Navigator (around since 2007) that's about disappear into the annuls of automotive history.
Both reflect the trouble the Navigator has had in drawing buyers away from Cadillac Escalades and Land Rover Sports. Left to wallow in the back channels of uncool truckdom, the Kentucky-built Lincoln must now chart a new course if it’s to sailor on.
Both reflect the trouble the Navigator has had in drawing buyers away from Cadillac Escalades and Land Rover Sports. Left to wallow in the back channels of uncool truckdom, the Kentucky-built Lincoln must now chart a new course if it’s to sailor on.
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| Oh captain, my captain: The 2015 Lincoln Navigator |
