1984 Lincoln Continental Turbo Diesel: Regular Car Reviews

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and i own two hollywood video franchises i want a bmw 5 series but i don't want to drive one of those fern cars too good mileage. I also want it to drive like a waterbed filled with ovaltine and whole milk. I also want people to think I signed checks with a malt blog and I want the car to accelerate slower than a heating oil truck. Hello

1984

Lincoln Continental.

turbo

diesel

, I know it's a BMW engine, but don't worry, we'll put Ferd on the engine so you'll never know that this Continental offers the BMW HP 22 four-speed transmission made by ZF, it's a train. all bmw powertrain and this is how this car came from the factory, it has 373 rear gears and is still slow and a 2.4 liter m21

turbo

diesel

engine that makes about 114 horsepower and 155 pound-feet of torque, the turbo it maxes out at about 13 psi or so because at 14 psi pop the overboost relief at the time of filming this car has 195,742 miles on it, the owner bought it from a friend for seven hundred and fifty dollars but it needed work to get it back up to fitness for the road new timing belt water pump radiator brake system ball joints bolts sock shock absorbers, tire belt tensioner and I think that's it, took it back to stock if as close as you could and what you got in the deal it was a really slow car, it goes in positions that are totally useless, yes it's like I was waiting for the whole column to move, no it's literally just the wheel, it will be much more useful if the whole column moved so If you are big you will drive like this, yes we have this style of school bus.

Yeah, okay, go, baby, go, this is one foot on the ground, there's 30. That's all it has, we're in the highest gear, there's three or four gears, that's the fourth, okay, Wow, yeah, you can't be in a hurry, you bought this. I don't know who would buy this part from someone who didn't want to pay for fuel, okay good gas mileage yeah what you want here comes a corolla come on could you do 50 miles an hour for this again even with 373 gears Is it a slug? It's a fox rig, you know, kind of like a Fairmont, but with a bunch of bells and whistles, except the bells don't have a clapper and the whistle is on a frequency that only golfers with a net score plus six can hear .

Yes, it has a turbo, no. it's not fast it doesn't handle particularly well it's like driving a wet roll of toilet paper it accelerates like a water balloon full of peanut butter it's slower than the internet connection at your parents' house after you moved in it's slower that the development in that shopping center sequel to the rat is a car for people whose children grow up not respecting escalators. I've passed kidney stones in the time it takes this thing to get to 60. But that weakness is also a kind of strength because while it takes some time to get up to speed, it's basically impossible to drive like this.

You'll eventually get the 70 and you can be satisfied because you're driving a Lincoln Continental, but who takes anyone seriously on a continuum? This is a far cry from the original conception of the

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as modern

continental

s are, from this it can be argued that the continental is the father of the mass market personal luxury usdm, but for its seventh generation it was mid-sized, but the diesel mark 7 wasn't that successful because I don't think anyone saw the continentals as cars that necessarily required having a diesel engine, surely BMW's powertrain was an opportunity for similar diesel offerings from its competitors, and the advertising campaign even It stated that Mercedes now has something it didn't have before the competition, which is a total lie, but anyway. marketing, this was simply the wrong car for the wrong time because, on the other side of the fence, General Motors had ruined diesel engines for everyone when they downplayed their very good Chevy 350 in favor of a diesel variant long before If the American public were willing to accept it, okay, maybe that wasn't the only reason this is a theory, but you can see how GM might think fuel economy would be paramount after the oil crisis of the 1990s. 70, especially with the new government fuel economy regulations and while that was the case, their v8 diesel didn't really perform like GM wanted for engines in general, diesel conversions were unreliable and expensive to maintain and in general Generally, they created more problems than the effort was worth.

Ford witnessed it all. Seeing this and decided that it would be better instead of building a bunch of small block diesel engines in-house, they outsourced the whole project to BMW, who of course had more success in this area at home, but the problem was That, while this got a very useful 24 mpg combined at launch, this just wasn't the car people wanted. Ford only made about 1,500 diesel variants of the Continental before the car was discontinued in 1985. And yet this car endures for all its faults, the Continental brand. It was discontinued after the 2020 model year, which sounds sad until you consider that this would be the fourth time the Continental has died, so history tells you it will probably return in some form, although you can't really compare modern Continentals to this continental means different things in different eras i mean even kid rock once rapped about having a

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continental and a grand marquis i don't know what that really means okay you got affordable middle class luxury cars i guess Continental's overall thesis is that it's sleek and stylish, this is from a time when Lincoln lost its populist luxury allure and sought to make up the difference with beeps and flashy lights inside computer-regulated air springs Reading lamps double intensity for additional anti-sickness technology the technology is a band-aid on a missing limb, there's a huge eye-rolling sensation and a big sigh and a shoulder-tapping energy like Lincoln feels like this is a car they had to make because I had to, the aesthetic tries to convince you that it's elegant, but it is elegant, like crumpled dollar bills carpeting a wooden stage while a silent riot echoes off the walls and mixes with the sad movement of the dancing crowd erotic at lunch time.

It's elegant like a well-prepared steak. This car is a salon magazine's idea of ​​what a grown-up haircut looks like The steering wheel looks like a scowling General Lincoln Continental Continental sponsored by a country club member who's never called his bluff Where there are the cheap used cars I hear you everything is expensive and woe is me, here's one, here's a cheap car, a fattened fox body platform for 750 dollars, big fake chrome switches, maybe genuine leather, screen liquid crystal which for me is great the camera does not accurately represent how bright and sharp these numbers are and as bad as I have been taking advantage of this Lincoln and when I will continue with the digital display it is very easy on the eyes the ride is so smooth like the Hershey Park pioneer writing on this I feel like I threw up in the recess line and now grandma is Take me home at 11:25 a.m. m. because both parents are at work.

Still, the steering is better than a 1999 Bravada. Do you want one of these? You want to have one. Well, you will have to rebuild the injection pump. The resealing kit is like 35. dollars, but the labor to do it is 1500 because the process is more tedious than building a calculator in Minecraft. The turbo is very small and I can't feel its spool. Thanes said he drove this with the wastegate open and it felt like it was running on three cylinders, so the turbo is the only thing keeping this diesel 6 alive, like a crumpled Batman nightmare beyond the gas pedal, It's super heavy because there are all these springs in here, unless your grandma is a hiker or does calf extensions, she's just pushing.

This skinny pedal goes down 25 then up 35 miles per hour down the Frackfield grade rolling on a conti turbo diesel it's like wearing a 50s snapback hat that says ddt is for me and all your friends who are too cool to smile They say it's attractive if your vibe is a precisely organized diorama of not giving a then a turbo diesel county will complete your look all you need is an oil stained white t-shirt and differential that says obstetrician and gynecologist and you're ready to stop every conversation at the barbecue, yes. I'm going to do that I'm a dgaf guy and that's my personality now I'm 31 and all my friends are buying houses and planning for the future and I'm here throwing horns while I'm at a mattress company but becoming a dgaf guy from 41 years old or a 51 year old dgaf guy it's not a life plan to turn off the camera on every photo you take it's not a personality even Tim Armstrong mellowed we all wear our cars like clothes and wealth is its own tuxedo but the appearance of wealth gets you through the door but you don't have to have the responsibility of knowing what a money market account does you're like a man with a clipboard and a reflective vest you look like you know what you're doing but it's social tourism it's like seeing how live the other half and pretend that you've always lived that way you've always been in the club and if you live that lie long enough whether you're upper class or lower class you run the risk of convincing yourself that your privilege oppresses you or your lifestyle oppresses you as if the world were unfair to you, particularly unfair to you alone, that the orderly system of a functional society cares enough about the individual to point it out, and a Lincoln Continental should.

You won't be important enough to make yourself feel this way, no car should listen to me or else you'll be that old man at the Appalachian Trail hiker shelter telling stories about his youth that never happened and saying