Test Drive Lincoln Mark Lt since 2009 Pickup

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Maching by the new Market Niche with his luxury Pickup Blackwood, Lincoln has given another volley, taking the proven election technologies as a basis: the F-150 superpopular pickup platform, chromium liter, five liters of the engine, natural wood and an exclusive name.
 
Lincoln - the Ford Motor luxury division, the main American competitor of non-optimated Cadillac, could not accept the way that, playing in 1998, Wa-Bank and issuing a unique car for that time, he suffered a fiasco. The time of the luxury pickups then came, but the manufacturers also developed such models, honing the settings and listen to the opinion of potential customers on numerous focus groups. Hurried Lincoln put his Black-Wood, without bringing it to the proper condition. Pickup turned out to be dear, clumsy and unreliable. Obtaining only 4,000 copies, Ford turned the production of the model, which by that time already received the invisible name of the Black-Hole nickname (black hole) for the ability to pull out the means for the content like the called space object, devouring the interstellar dust megatons, often along with the stars.
 
However, failures are hardened, and who, as not, the Ford Guide knows this on its own experience! Therefore, leaving the raid for the next deafening volley, aimed primarily on Cadillac and at quickly tightened to the theme of the Japanese, Lincoln did not take risks. He prepared a torpedo tested in battles, providing it with a proven detonation mechanism. True, Lincoln Mark Lt, presented in the Droytskaya car show, did not produce the Hiroshima bombing effect, but it was similar to the Lumiere brothers session on Kapuchin Boulevard. Everyone heard about the train flying on the audience with a white sheet, laughed at the reaction of the public, but they themselves shakeped from the places, seeing the impending shadow of the locomotive in the clubs and smoke. There are rumors, the Lumiere brothers showed stereo films that served as a catalyst for the well-known reaction of the audience ...
 
So, in the case of the new pickup, the Blackwood reflection of the flareller seemed to be seen and therefore demanded even greater perfection than in case of a simple comparison with competitors. At this place, Lincoln made a special accent, adding exclusivity to the car to the car - the word Mark, meaning a lot for the American automotive connoisseurs. For the first time in the name of its Ford cars applied the word Mark as a symbol of the exclusivity of the model in the fifties. I came up with this designation, as they say, Edsel Ford himself is the son of the Great Grandfather. He gave it to the first Continental. For reference: Full-size sedans Lincoln Continental were represented as direct competitors Cadillac cars, and if you do not know what it means, you will never understand! In 1956, Mark II appeared, which became a real classic due to his style, reliability and comfort. Mark III sold in the amount of 40,000 copies, confirming not only the uniqueness of the car, but also its popularity. In short, the Mark additive actually made a Lincoln brand. The same noble mission is assigned to the named Latera and now. Sufifix Lt has two meanings: Light Truck - a light truck according to the traditional classification and what I like more, Luxury Truck is a luxury truck. And he sounds, and understandable.
 
Unfinite weapons
 
Without becoming sly to be wise with the invention of bicycles, Lincoln took the Ford F-150 Pickup platform - the most popular lightweight truck of North America. The base car shortly before this was modernization and complied with the most modern requirements of strength, reliability and safety. The design of the pickup is in a good traditional: hydroformed staircase frame, an independent spring front suspension on double levers of unequal length, an undiscriminated bridge on spring springs. By the way, not everything may know that the type of suspension, which is applied from behind, is called the hotcissal scheme, and the characteristic feature are lying over the springs and upside down earrings. The eight-cylinder V-shaped engine of the Triton series is docked with a 5-speed automatic box and further - with a two-step dispensing box equipped with a mechanism for connecting the front bridge on the go - SHIFT-ON-The-Fly. The proper level of manageability is designed to provide a rug steering mechanism and a thick stabilizer of the transverse stability of the front suspension. It should be noted that in the current generation F-150 constructors applied several new solutions for the model radically changing the characteristics of the car. First, the frame is made from a closed, rather than an ordinary C-shaped profile, which increased the overall stiffness of the structure, secondly, the placement of shock absorbers inside the spring suspension springs and the use of the rush steering mechanism has improved controllability, thirdly, the original location of the rear shock absorbers for The limits of the frame provided the best comfort.
 
The basic version of the Lincoln Mark Lt, as well as F-150, rear-wheel drive, and it is necessary to pay extra for a four-wheel drive - however, not too much. Residents of southern states that do not face the problem of snow winters, sometimes prefer more economical rear-wheel drive models. Most consumers will choose all-wheel drive versions. As a target audience, Lincoln sees landowners and people living an active life preferring to travel and relax in the fresh air. Unlike the basic pickup, Mark Lt is equipped with an exclusively four-door five-seater cabin and a short body length of 167 cm. Neither ATV nor the cross motorcycle will not fit into it, but the back wall-door stands up to 200 kg and, if the body is equipped with a special turning grille, quite It can serve as an additional freight platform.
 
Chrome pie
 
The solidity of any car can be added to the decoration of a generous hand to add chromium. More chromium, a lot of chromium! It is best, of course, covered with chrome the whole body ... Lincoln stylists almost managed. Dominant in the guise of a pickup should be considered a fake grid of the radiator. This sparkling monument makes it remember the Golden Age of the Continental mentioned above, whose front arrange caused a dental crossing of Cadillakov artists in the sixties. Chrome finished bumpers, door moldings and handles, side mirrors, edging of the rear lights, huge crosses emblems and a number of the most notable cabin elements. The angular silhouette did not make a stylistic revolution, but thanks to the general monumentality gives the desire of designers to create a car with a claim. The father of American Chopper Mister Paul Teutl Sr. (Paul Teutul Sr.) arrived at the Lincoln Mark Lt presentation. To the appearance of a pickup, he prepared a motorcycle caste-class of similar design. This act was subject to removal from the image of Caddy Escalade Ext - a pickup for rappers and other similar African Americans with thick gold on top of a fur coat. It is clear that a dubious Renom Ji-emmon luxury pickup was created by the Black Brothers and the manufacturer here, but the white owner ranch from the south or intellectual from the north to the unfortunate EXT watched, quarring in advance. For them, a luxury truck was created with the appearance of the Lincoln Memorial or the Congress library.
 
Pickup salon is separated, you can even say modestly. Some muddy metal, plastic, slightly skin and elegant inserts made of natural veneer of a dark tree. Cabin equipments is a mixture of European and fresh American trends. The selector lever is mounted on the floor, the steering column is adjusted only by tilt, but the pedal node moves. The clock setting range is sufficient, but the process algorithm is strange. The tilt, height and moving of the pillow controls the key on the sidewall. Next to it is the gorott of the lumbar backpage. But the tilt of the back is carried out by the simplest lever, as and twenty years ago. In the cabin, there can indeed fit five adults. Behind, they will not feel like closens of limousine, but also obvious inconveniences will not experience. All armchairs are wide, soft and fantastically comfortable. Going along the ring, sitting in such a, and recall the road adventures, travel, sunsets in the Rocky Mountains, fog over the great lakes and piercing sunrises at Zabresky Point. Bob Dylan is very much to the place, whose hoarse voice comes to us the five speakers of the corporate audio system. It must be said that Infinity with the built-in sixdisc chain MP3 sounds very good for the standard system. Music volume increases with a set of speed drops with a discharge - very convenient.
 
Lightly on turns!
 
Riding on any car begins and ends in the parking lot. These are the worst moments on Lincoln Mark Lt. Excellent visibility through gigantic side mirrors, visible body dimensions and the hood almost do not save. The reason is simple - the pickup is very great. The side windows are tinted, but it does not interfere, but the incident came out with the pubis. It is covered with a film delaying ultraviolet, a peculiar shade of which winter makes everything covered with snow flat items. It is impossible to ride around the rough terrain - it is not visible where the borger, and where the pit. At the same time, the characteristics of the pickup allow the driver to feel on the off-road quite confidently - by itself, taking into account the parameters of geometric patency. Among these parameters is the most critical is the length of the wheelbase. The road clearance in 236 mm will envy many, the engine is also, but the absence of electronics in the 21st century is perceived as a flaw. The anti-test system would not interfere. And how Mark has only ABS. With demolitions and drifts, the driver is struggling his own. And to compete in the winter is with what ...
 
The Lincoln Mark LT is 5.4-liter Triton series engine, equipped with three valves per cylinder, which develops 300 liters. with. at 5000 rpm and more than 500 nm at 3750 rpm. The pick of the motor is more than inspiring. When the front turns off the front wheel to the beverages and get a skid when departure from the border can be easily. In the summer it would hardly have been so simple, but on slippery asphalt, the front axle does not turn off. Since the pickup drive is an unadifferential, then in 4x4 mode it has a pronounced insufficient turning. With this you have to put up, since the BFG Longtrail T / A tires installed on the Lincoln tires were not given a single chance in abbreviations, nor when maneuvering in the snow on the rear drive. The problem of winter driving was somewhat exacerbated by the fact that the steering of the rack type was surprisingly accurate and alive. It provokes a pilot to certain madness, but ice and snow quickly cool the fervor. It will be very interesting to take the Mark LT in the summer of dry asphalt, and now I can say that the inertia of a large car and the grinding tire grip with the surface does not allow to realize its entire potential. In the meantime, it is safe to hurt the praise by engineers and tests that brought the suspension, especially the rear. It is said that more than four months of working on the smoothness of the pickup, and it should be noted, is not in vain. I immediately remember the pickup, which would be so comfortable and at the same time accurate. Even on solid ughabah, there was never a feeling of loss of control, which appears when the wheels come off from the road. At the same time, riding all these people and the shoots did not force passengers to fly across the salon, on the contrary, I wanted to bare a little bit and still barely jump!
 
DEAR GUEST
 
And not only expensive, but also very rare ... Full-size pickups in general, and American and luxury in particular in Russia are randomly found. Here they are the roads, gasoline consumes like loaded minibuses, farmers and loggers do not afford, and led such Mahine in the city streets are pleasure doubtful. However, it was in such machines that a striking feeling of calm self-confidence appears, and just a feeling of peace. You fly around the freeway as a locomotive, comfortably settled in a comfortable chair, listen to good music, and I do not want to stop. You will turn on the carcers, you click the switch and quietly quietly, without thinking especially that under the wheels ... only two points stop at the wheels: 66 thousand dollars and good eyes of the tank, lowering the gun in the bottomless tank of this literary locomotive.
 
Text: Igor Gubar
 

A source: Journal 4x4.