Noooo. A Mark should be a larger coupe, as they always were. The Mustang based coupe is a Cougar.

Having owned the last suicide door Lincoln: Yes, they are totally cool. Actually on the '61 which brought them back, they were necessary. With the roofline they wanted you would have a hard time getting in and out of the back seat at all with regular doors. On the other hand, if you pull into a parking lot space and…

The original Cougar looked like it should be a Lincoln anyway. If Lincoln decides to make a luxo stretch Mustang, Cougar is the logical name.

Pontiac started the split thing in 1959 when their new space age cars dropped the archaic Silver Streak thing. Later, after copying Mercedes cladding they copied BMW with BMW-like split grilles.

I haven't been able to make the photo posting thing work any more. I seem to have forgotten the trick. Nothing I try works. Have I been blocked to prevent yet another posting of some classic Lincoln or what?

The German alpha-numeric names work because they originally meant something and then stayed around long enough for everyone to get it. Plus, 3, 5, and 7 series are in order of size of car. BMW should quit with the messing with the system. Mercedes too. Mercedes are Cheap, Expensive, and Superexpensive.

Damn that stupid magazine, which I hadn't thought of before. Cosmo Girl. Yecch.

Smaller cars in Europe are almost all hatchbacks. We're just more reactionary here in the US.

That bit on the Camry, an old trick really, is just there to make the old Camry look like a slicker new Camry, even though it's basically the old one face lifted.

That's what I thought too. Everyone hates on the CrossTour, but although I think the BMW versions of the idea are horrible and frightening, not so much the Honda. It reminds me of late '40's sedans. Taller and rounder than cars now plus the fastback. Looks comfy.

Dammit, no edit function. I meant to mention the flight from Phoenix to Tucson is about a hundred miles, and it was late at night.

Way back in the olden days, there was a flight from Phoenix to Tucson which was a leg of a longer flight so it used regular sized planes. Maybe still does, although these days you tend to get a Bombardier or something on shorter flights. Anyway one time I was on it in a Convair 990 (look it up) with about eight people…

Spend a couple thousand more and then find out how incredibly awful these actually were. And completely unsafe.

Because fingerprints?

That's because it is a facelifted old one.

That's because it is a facelift of a facelift from the early 2000's.

No.

Nothing in the 50's was good in rollover situations. Now we have rules.

Me?

You never drove an original Beetle, did you?