Really good body-on-frame era Imperials are now really expensive. I think people have begun to appreciate one of the coolest cars ever.

Front bumper gone, barely running after the engine being blasted with a million gallons of high pressure water, bumper gone.....think I'll sneak away and no one will notice. Wonder how far he got. Anyway, still a very nice looking car, from before Mercedes started trying too hard. Well, until this.

Oh for god's sake. You usually hold a phone vertically. It happened. Landscape would be better than portrait, obviously, but it's not fine cinematography. Some guy pulled out his phone.

CR cars are owned by CR and driven by their testing crew. Sometimes no doubt subject to extreme testing, but not driven by a bunch of yahoos.

Three of the typical spams messing up this thread. Jalopnik needs a modern comment system that keeps crap like that out.

You mean this?

See, we don't do r's like that in Murika.

In German it's por-SHA, but you have to say the r right, in a way we don't say r's. Same thing with Citroen - the r is different as well as other sounds.

When I was about 9 I was sitting in the Studebaker at night while my father was in the drug store and looking out the window at the totally different black car parked next to it. I had never seen anything like it. Some guy got in and started it. One end rose up and then the other. Holy effing shit!

Most probably never even think they are on Long Island. But we are.

No.

Groovy.

Those doors were not only a Lincoln thing from not that long before that, but if you observe the rear side window shape you will realize that if they were rear opening you couldn't really get in and out. When you sit in the back seat there is a blank wall next to your head. This allowed them to have a roofline more…

In its own slightly awkward Frenchy way. When the redid the front like that some writer said it finally looks right after all these years.

Before the wheelbase extension and deadly flat windows they were far, far better.

There was a full color 1958 DS brochure that featured four red balls floating in a pool and a two page (or more?) spread of a panorama of the view out. Can't find it online. Wish I saved it - it was incredibly high art for a brochure of the time.

Another Ford guy Chrysler product. Also a rebody of the Imperial above, although it's hard to tell.

One peak of the Exner period, one the peak of the Ford guy period.

That is big joke, no?

The Mark X is in between the XJ and the S everyone loves and is kind of unjustly ignored. The interiors are kind of amazing also.