Columnist Rick Kranz argues that if Ford's Lincoln division is to be an elite luxury brand, what it needs is a flagship vehicle that evokes admiring glances. "How does a lightweight, mid-engine,
two-seater badge as a Lincoln sound?" he writes. Kranz says such a vehicle could be Lincoln's more refined answer to the short-lived Ford GT performance car. He says Lincoln has told
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that it will introduce seven new or revamped vehicles in the coming three years; "however, a two-seat, mid-engine car has not been suggested to dealers." He writes that the idea isn't that
far-fetched, and has precedence with vehicles like the Pantera sports car that Ford's Lincoln-Mercury dealers sold in the 1970's.
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