So that's where they got the idea...

I had a '94 Eagle Vision, the least known of the first gen LH triplets. Pretty much a Concorde with different taillights and grille. It handled and rode pretty well.

I first saw them road testing in Florida before their actual production run, I thought they were Lamborghini portofinos! Cab Forward was a big deal back then and is really still with us.

The problem is that Europeans have been calling certain types of cars "town cars" for a very long time and we are reminded of that via Top Gear. In Europe's crowded cities with narrow streets, a town car is a small pea pod designed to fit in with mopeds, and which would be highly inappropriate cruising highways.

Then again, maybe it all depends on how you look at it. If the name should suggest that the Lincoln is close to a town in size, it's spot on.

Listen to that engine purr?

Even these have pretty much disappeared. Hooned/neglected?

Or finding one without an LSX swap...

I always felt Porsche should have been putting out the Miata before Mazda did. A $30k entry level bare bones sports car that every enthusiast could drool over.

Hmm maybe the Mail just recycles the story

Toyota has... Scion

Actually the line began entirely in Japan as Diaclone in 1980, and they were not robots in disguise but mech suits for human(oid) drivers, that's why even the non-vehicles like the Dinobots have seats in them and also why Ironhide and Ratchet aren't robots but battle platforms with no faces.

Not quite Archer, but I agree. They use specific and non-generic cars for various reasons.

If Herman Munster were a car, he'd be a green and grey Honda Elephant. Oh Lilly, I'm home...

Ford (Lincoln) Futura.

It was a Ford Futura concept car customized by John Barris

You've got to be kidding me, Sam Strano was an SCCA national champ running a Camaro.

The SCCA pax score for the STI is lower than it is for WS6 (meaning the STI gets more help flattening out its times) so apparently not everybody agrees. And that's on a slow autocross course.