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Ok the past few days ive been thinking of ideas to save Lincoln, and Jaguar. Anyone else got ideas to save a company they enjoy?


My Ideas for Lincoln. Do not go after bmw, or mercedes, attack Caddilac, and Infiniti. Build a new coupe based of the new Mustang platform, but with true IRS. It should be rear wheel drive, no jag v8, give it a slighty beefed up Mustang GT v8, so that it can actually compete. Market segment is aimed at the Infiti G35 Coupe, name it the Lincoln Continental, do not make it overly american big, make it fit into that sporty coupe image. Offer a 6 speed, and 6 speed auto. Rear Wheel drive, no front wheel i cannot stress that enough. Maybe if they market is right a year afterwords an AWD version could work.

Another idea, is to make the new town car the new meaning of the american luxury car. Update the styling so that the average buyer isnt 70. Make a sporty version of it with the 5.4 liter v8, and update the chasis, so to maybe the one that the XJ rides on. I feel that Lincoln should be Fords Sports luxury car division.

For jaguar, your not into the market well enough to compete with the BMws or Mercs, go after lexus here in america. While your doing this slowly build your prestige up, and your sportyness. maybe a new engine would help this, like a 3.2 liter Inline 6, not that V6 crap. if BMWs gonna be able to make 225 from their 2.5 you should be able to make atleast 250, 260 from a 3.2. The X-Type is selling well here now, keep that going, im glad they dumped FWD as standard. Make the S-Type look more agressive, and not so archaic. Offer a real v8 in their, maybe something of the 5.0 Cammer would work. Then when the germans arent looking, update the XJ to fight with the S-Class and 7 series. Push button start, paddle shift, but kinda like the DB9 tranny, with the option of automatic. Less cluttered console, would definately improve things. For the XK, i cant see anything wrong with this beauty, maybe an AWD varient, or a turbocharged varient, but if not up the engine displacement to a 5.0, or 4.6.

Anyone else got ideas for their companies?