Filed under: Minivan/Van , Work , Ford , Police/Emergency , Specialty In a commercial market where “change” is a four-letter word, Ford has a lot of explaining to do. It is not often that an automaker decides to dump a best-selling vehicle line, one that’s dominated its segment for decades. But Ford’s commercial vehicle team is doing it not once, but twice.
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How Ford plans to phase out the best-selling E-Series
Filed under: Sedan , Etc. , Ford , Police/Emergency , Specialty Pour a 40 out, dance a dervish or do whatever your people do to celebrate the dead, because yesterday, the final Ford Crown Victoria rolled off the assembly line at St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada.
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Official: Last Ford Crown Victoria build documented by St. Thomas Assembly
Filed under: Minivan/Van , Ford First the Panther platform and now E-Series vans? That might be the case, according to a presentation shown to investors at a Ford press event held alongside the Frankfurt Motor Show . The discussion centered on how Ford is reducing costs by producing global vehicles on singular platforms. This includes its commercial van lineup, and it sounds like the entire bulk of that business will soon be shouldered by the Ford Transit.
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Report: Slide presentation confirms Ford E-Series being nixed in favor of Transit
Filed under: Sedan , Work , Crossover , Chrysler , Lincoln , Specialty Chrysler 300 Long-Wheelbase – Click above for high-res image gallery Chrysler won’t be stretching the company’s new 300 for livery service anytime soon. According to Automotive News , the automaker isn’t interested in locking horns with Lincoln in the limousine business. The reason?
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Report: Chrysler to pass on stretched 300, cedes livery market to Lincoln
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM 2011 Chevrolet Impala interior – Click above for a high-res image gallery The six-place sedan is coming very close to joining the Passenger Pigeon. Anyone younger than about thirty years old isn’t likely to have memories of straddling the transmission tunnel in the middle of the front seat, trying to keep knees out of the hungry teeth of radio pushbuttons or HVAC controls. In an opinion piece for the Detroit Free Press , Mark Phelan ponders this phenomenon, and notes that big coupes have already gone extinct, with General Motors seemingly providing the last gasp of each format. There are several reasons for this; most mainstream sedans have transverse-mounted powertrains and front-wheel drive, which means no hump to straddle
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Last of the six-seat sedans on their way out?
Filed under: Crossover , Ford , Lincoln , Specialty Lincoln MKT Town Car – Click above for high-res image gallery The Lincoln Town Car is a the ride of choice for limousine companies and car services around the world. One problem, we’re rapidly approaching the official death knell of the panther platform , and that means that soon enough no more new Town Cars are going to be built. Lincoln is ready to fill that upcoming void and is using the 2011 Internation Limousine, Charter and Tour Show as a platform to debut its MKT Town Car and Limousine. Comfort is the name of the game with livery operators, so Lincoln has pushed the rear seats of the MKT further back to add 1.5-inches of legroom
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Lincoln debuts new MKT Town Car and Limousine