Ford to drop Explorer Sport Trac, Mountaineer
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Dropping the Sable, though perhaps an attractive idea right now, I don't think will turn out to be a good idea in the long run. I elaborated on this in an earlier post above.....the Sable will probably be attractive to the huge number of Baby Boomers about to retire.
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I'm glad Ford, Toyota, Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, to name a few pay close attention to the needs of my generation, because the numbers are too huge to ignore.
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Good luck finding decent inventory to select from. Kind of like when I went to test-drive a Lincoln MKZ or whatever its called, they only had a couple to look at (and they admitted the demand was so low they purposely minimized stocking many).
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As this generation (my huge generation of baby boomers) develops more gray hair we do not all become senile, fat, numb drivers of low performance, low quality, ugly land yachts.
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Do you want an MKZ review? There are some new ones in this area, and I can probably get my hands on one.
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Yes, I'm aware you are in that generation. You have mentioned it before. So am I.
Well, a lot of you guys here on CAR CHAT are crooning about the new Taurus about to be released. The Sable, with the exception of the Taurus SHO, would have been the same car, had it had not been dropped.
Well, a lot of you guys here on CAR CHAT are crooning about the new Taurus about to be released. The Sable, with the exception of the Taurus SHO, would have been the same car, had it had not been dropped.
Thankfully there are no common parts to previous crap Tortioise/Sable. My generation is crooning about a new contemporary Taurus to be released, agreed. Sounds like Ford is paying attention again.
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Correction: Sorry, I was talking about the MKX (the name was so forgettable, not too slick from a marketing perspective), the rebadged/rebodies Ford Edge.
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The MKX replaces the Aviator, which did not sell well. It didn't sell because it was essentially a downsized Navigator for almost as much money.
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The Aviator was not a downsized Navigator, it was a rebodied Explorer with a Mustang "Mach-whatever V8", a very sweet motor. I drove one and the careful suspension tuning and powerful engine made it very nice to drive, but the gas mileage was bad at old EPA rating of 13/18. But like the MKX it sold poorly.
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June sales were pathetic of these alphabet soup cars:
MKS 1,365
MKZ 2,114
MKX 1,668
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Lincoln's alphabet system probably isn't any worse then Acura's or Cadillac's. All three take some getting used to.