"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
04/12/2014 at 18:55 • Filed to: None
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"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
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They have already replaced Max Wolff with a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! chief designer.
Wolff, a highly regarded designer originally from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , may have encountered resistance to his efforts to further differentiate Lincoln cars from the Ford models upon which they are based
That doesn't sound good.
M54B30
> GeorgeyBoy
04/12/2014 at 19:04 |
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design ugly cars, get fired. Maybe the next designer will fix these disasters
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GeorgeyBoy
> M54B30
04/12/2014 at 19:10 |
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I'm pretty sure he was only responsible for the MKZ and MKC IIRC. I know looks are suggestive, but the MKZ isn't ugly at all. He is now the head of exterior design, so I don't think ugly was the problem....
PatBateman
> GeorgeyBoy
04/12/2014 at 19:32 |
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I would say that Lincoln is a decade behind Cadillac. If they want to catch up and be competitive, Ford must dump mammoth amounts of money into R&D AND change to a driver-oriented RWD platform.
Otherwise, Lincoln is competing with Buick.
Milky
> GeorgeyBoy
04/12/2014 at 19:37 |
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Damn, that was fast …. also I saw him a few weeks ago. Getting tacos.
bobkustofawitshz
> GeorgeyBoy
04/12/2014 at 19:37 |
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Hopefully his successor will design some proper luxury cars...
...that don't look like freaking whales
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M54B30
> GeorgeyBoy
04/12/2014 at 19:38 |
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I like the older MKZ, but not the newer ones. The MKC is 90% but the 10% (front end) brings it all down. Keep the grille simple - swooping it up at an angle like they do is it's Achilles heel, I think.
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GeorgeyBoy
> PatBateman
04/12/2014 at 19:38 |
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Lincoln stated about 5 years ago that their main competition is Buick and Acura. They stopped competing with Cadillac a while ago.
They're dumping $1billion into their turn-around currently. It looks like that rwd thinking is what made Ford replace Wolff. Platform sharing is what saved Ford, so I can't blame them.
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GeorgeyBoy
> bobkustofawitshz
04/12/2014 at 19:40 |
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Wolff is now head of exterior design so nothing is going to change there.
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GeorgeyBoy
> M54B30
04/12/2014 at 19:43 |
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The new MKZ is a lot different in person, in a good way. I don't like the MKC at all, I really liked the concept but the production version is too dulled down. The MKS and MKT look like absolute garbage.
JR1
> GeorgeyBoy
04/13/2014 at 13:27 |
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I love Lincoln but the whole purpose of the company now is to shin up Fords and then sell them. Frankly I think it works for now. One day however Ford will be in a tough spot and if there isn't something to make Lincoln distinctively it's own I'm worried they might get axed.