Cadillac is getting ready to launch the much anticipated rear-drive ATS and new flagship XTS this year. The Lincoln MKZ concept shown at this month’s Detroit Auto Show was very well received, and will be followed by six more new and refreshed vehicles by 2014. Earlier this year, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson told [...]

The Basics: Closely related to the Ford Edge, the 2012 Lincoln MKX is the upscale brand’s five-seat crossover vehicle. Like the Edge, it was redesigned for the 2011 model year, and it carries over this year with no changes. With new sheetmetal and powertrains, a new interior and a new suite of technology branded MyLincoln [...]

The Basics: Returning for the 2012 model year with no changes, the Lincoln MKT continues to be a cult-following crossover that draws in a few fans along with lots of puzzling looks. The styling could hardly be more polarizing. It’s already a big vehicle, but the MKT is brash about its size, from the baleen [...]

Lincoln is desperate for one hot new model in its lineup, just not this hot. At the reveal of the new MKZ Concept at the Detroit Auto Show this week the car in question began to smoke. Embarrassed Lincoln reps ushered giggling journalists away with jokes aplenty. Reception of the [...]

2013 Lincoln MKZ concept GM has the new 2013 Cadillac ATS sedan waiting in the wings, and at Ford, the mission’s almost the same–to snare more entry-level luxury-sedan buyers. That task begins with the 2013 Lincoln MKZ, making its debut as a concept car at the 2012 Detroit auto show. Lincoln’s mission is a little [...]

During rapper and self proclaimed pothead “daytime television fan” Snoop Dogg’s appearance on the “Price is Right” last week he helped one lucky contestant win the keys to a beautiful 1962 Lincoln Continental. More »

Snoop Dogg Enlarge Photo Wait, what was that? Was that Snoop Dogg–former rap bad boy and softcore star, on…The Price is Right? Snoop took to the airwaves yesterday, on Drew Carey’s version of TPIR, one of daytime’s longest-running game shows. Now that Bob Barker’s free to spay and neuter anything he wants in retirement, Carey’s [...]

Funeral procession for Kim Jong-il, led by a Lincoln Continental Enlarge Photo If you’re an American of a certain age, it was hard not to watch news coverage of Kim Jong-il’s funeral procession, lined with thousands of keening North Koreans, and not think of that Simpsons episode about the charlatan called “The Leader“. And if [...]

So we won’t be the ones talking about how this funeral was probably staged and highly choreographed, but rather the irony that Kim Jong-il’s final ride was in an American car, a 1976 Lincoln Continental to be exact. Despite freezing temperatures and plenty of snow out in Pyongyang, North Korea, [...]

For a dictator whose country has never been on particularly rosy terms with the United States, North Korea’s recently departed Dear Leader was allotted a rather peculiar hearse after a life of Mercedes-Benz fetish. That’s totally an old black Lincoln. More »