They are also dropping the MK name and going back to the Zephyr, Town Car, and possibly the MKIX based on the Mustang (Wishful thinking on he MK9). Also the old names are returning from the line up.

Zephyr, Town Car, Premiere, Continental: Lincoln has so many good names it does NOT need to do that pretentious alpha-numeric I-Wanna-Be-Mercedes-Too coding shit like Cadillac is doing. I would applaud any return to the full monikers and the ditching of all this MK__ nonsense.
As for the Marks, here is the fourteen year old MK9 concept:
http://www.netcarshow.com/lincoln/2.....1-mk9_concept/
And then here is the eleven-year-old Mark X:
http://www.netcarshow.com/lincoln/2.....ark_x_concept/

This is what I'm hoping it will be http://cdn.speednik.com/files/2014/09/lincoln2.jpg

Agreed, Jalopnik covers this as well.

Oooh. Sex-say...
And given just how sexy the new Mu-tang is looking anyways, a coupe based off this latest version could be rather hot...

I kinda wanna be the one out in left field and have them call it the Cougar......*cough* Mercury names are cool *cough*

(Grand) Marquis, Park Lane, Montclair, Comet, Maurander, Monarch...
Yeah, there's lots of good potential from the monikers from the old Big M.

Cyclone Spoiler II......because Torino Talladega

Make the Cyclone Spoiler II a WRC-based package on the Focus.
Talladega for a potential full-balls, NASCAR-running Taurus coupe'..?

The closest thing to the Torino/Cyclone is the Fusion. Make a coupe AWD version of the Fusion and call it a Torino

Yes, of course. This parallel is correct.
I have to squint in concentration to remember that Torino was the little brother to the truly big LTDs back in the day.

Well there was the LTD2 after I think 1978 when the Gran Torino died....

That's right.
What do you think the LTD2 *was*..?

Well it morphed into 2 cars the Crown Vic and the Taurus

Are you sure? Torino/LTD2 was the foundation for CV/GM/TC..?
And Taurus = Ford's Billion-dollar Grand Experiment that actually turned our right. It was *supposed* to be totes new from the wheels up. Unless you can give the citation needed?

Fairly Certain it went Fairlane, Torino, Gran Torino, Torino Elite, LTDII, LTD, Crown Victoria and Taurus, then Fusion.

Unless you wanna look at the Taurus as the first gen then t may of come from the Maverick-Pinto family.

Okay, hold on. Are we talking about machine lineage or moniker lineage?
Because saying that the Taurus came from Maverick/Pinto hardware is asking for a generous stretch.

Wait I skipped over the contour nvm the Taurus would fall into line after LTD linage.

Okay. Your talking monikers. HUAA.

The last time Lincoln teased a Continental, its design cues (esp. the interior ones) ended up on Navigator. This one seems far more of a test mule than just a styling exercise, though. Let us hope.

Speaking of Continental what ifs, according to Hemmings, this could have been the Continental in the 50s, instead of the neo-classic Mark II

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/.....e-continental/

A car that small, crushing the scales at 6,300 lbs., thanks to all those onboard gadgets. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
Lincoln's enormous 1960 Mark V is the official heaviest passenger car ever at an even three tons. This space-rocket coupe is even heavier than THAT!
And it also had to be rewired out the ass to handle all the high-tech electrical demands. Not a surprise this didn't see production. So many potential problems...

Most of the advanced tech probably wouldn't have made it to production, and they probably would have dial the shape back a bit too. It would probably look an awful lot like a Thunderbird by the time they were done. Not a bad thing, but I'm thinking in the end, they made the right choice.
As it was, you can see an awful lot of design elements that ended up of future Fords. That back end looks a lot like the 61-63 T-Birds, which as it turned out, shared some internal structure with the Continental of those years.

No surprise that Continental was the foundation of Thunderbird. You can see it if you pause and just study the models. And we *really* got to see that family resemblance from the 1970s on, didn't we?
It's always a fun game to play Guess The Lineage with cars. All of GM's W-bodies; the Holy Ford Trinity of Crown Victoria/Grand marquis/Town Car; the three car pileup that went into Chrysler's C-300 and 300B.
Nowadays, it's gotten even wackier, esp. with the euro brands.

Would have been nice if it had a V8(possibly derived from the Mustang), but due to it using a stretched version of the current Taurus s FWD platform it will have to have a twin turbo version of the ecoboost V6.

I genuinely like this new design. We'll see if it actually becomes a vehicle, but this and the MKZ/Zephyr would be a great one-two punch.

I don't really care about the comeback... But in relation to Lincoln and Continental, my grandfather had one when I was a kid. It was a 1981 Mark Vi, had the 5.0 V8 and was fully loaded. I still remember the car, it was tan on tan with tan, beautiful car inside and out. One of the very, very, very few Fords that I would ever consider owning. And it would have to be all tan, no other color would do!

*insert nostalgic feelings here*

http://tenwheel.com/imgs/a/b/h/a/n/.....__0l_3_lgw.jpg

Pretty neat looking. Almost looks like a 2014-bodied Charger under all those covers. LOL But that would be cool to see it return.