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To: newgeezer
By and large, people want crossovers (butch, high-riding station wagons), SUVs and trucks.

So, it's no wonder self-driving cars are the future. Few people enjoy driving anymore. They'd rather be texting and watching two-minute YouTube videos.

But, me, I'm a dinosaur. I intend to keep on driving manual-transmission sedans to my grave.

It seems like a short term plan but in the long term, how do they regain any market share if cars make a comeback.

I also wonder if they will keep making Lincolns MKZ and Continental.

141 posted on 04/26/2018 10:58:52 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: DungeonMaster

This story specifically talks about North America. If today’s Ford is anything like the Ford of old, they’ll still be making sedans for Europe. Then, if/when the market shifts, they should be able to change production over here, too.

Lincoln barely has a pulse. The Continental isn’t the hit they were hoping for. I would be surprised if they don’t get out of the sedan business, too. The all-new Navigator could make or break the brand.


146 posted on 04/26/2018 1:04:59 PM PDT by newgeezer ("You believed that sh*t? I meant 'FILL THE SWAMP' all along!" -- Donald J. Trump's brain 3/23/2018)
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