One of the most popular features presented by the 2010 Navigator is the powered liftgate, a feature the Chevrolet Tahoe had, but lost. You simply push a button on the inside of the cab, or on your key fob, and in your liftgate automatically opens and closes. Loading luggage, groceries and more becomes a simplistic procedure that used to be cumbersome. The more you explore your Lincoln Navigator, the more you see just how thoughtful the engineers were throughout their design process.

The 2010 Navigator from Lincoln is bursting with ready power and the ability to get you where you need to go safely and in fantastic style. The 5.4L 310hp 365 lb-ft SOHC V8 engine works in conjunction with a six-speed automatic transmission to deliver far more than adequate strength to all of your traveling. It’s a clean burning engine as well. Hydrocarbon emissions are reduced by 42 percent. Smog-creating emissions are lessened by 55 percent and NO2 emissions are reduced by a minimum of 65 percent.

All of that clean engine power is complemented nicely with the Lincoln class-exclusive AdvanceTrac Roll Stability Control system. The RSC system electronically enhances brake-based vehicle stability with a constantly operating sensor that determines the current role rate probabilities. It measures the probability that the vehicle is going to roll over 100 times per second. It works in conjunction with the Lincoln (ABS) anti-Lock braking system, the (ETC) electronic traction control system and the standard (ESC) electronic stability control system in order to keep you optimally safe at all times.

Lincoln marque, and it had a list price of $10,000 - the same as that year’s Rolls-Royce. In 1958, the Edsel division merged with Lincoln-Mercury, becoming the Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln division until the Edsel was discontinued in 1960. Meanwhile, the Continental became Lincoln’s flagship model until 1981, when the Town Car, formerly the Lincoln’s top trim level, became its own model, and usurped the role.

Until 1998, Lincoln remained a top-selling luxury brand in the United States, helped along by the amazingly successful Navigator SUV, and re-designed Continentals and Town Cars. From 1998 to 2002, it was part of Ford’s Premier Automotive Group, but it was pulled out when Ford decided to separate its import and domestic marques. Since then, the company has lagged behind Japanese, European, and American competitors, in part because of a lack of new models.

That same year, however, Eugene T. “Bob” Gregorie began designing the car that would eventually become the Continental. It started as a one-off project for Edsel Ford, who wanted a European-style car for Florida vacations - something smaller and spiffier than the boxy designs his father’s company was known for.

Introduced for the 1936 model year, the sporty Zephyr, which featured a 1.8 liter V12, was so successful it almost became a brand name, and it was also Gregorie’s inspiration, because what he did was to section a 1938 Zephyr Coupe about four inches, allowing most of the existing dies and tooling to be retained, and adding the distinctive vertically-mounted spare tire. This became the Continental, and by the time it ended production in 1948, more than 5300 of them had been built, almost entirely by hand. The original Zephyr stopped production in 1942, and was never revived.

Cadillac, formed the Lincoln Motor Company during World War I, in order to build Liberty aircraft engines. It was not until after the war that the factories were redesigned for car manufacturing.
During the transition from planes to autos, the company had severe financial issues, and in 1922 it was purchased by the Ford Motor Company, in a sort of financial act of revenge by Ford, who had been forced out of his second company by a group of investors led by Leland. (Ironically, Ford’s originally company, Cadillac, would eventually be purchased by GM, and become Lincoln’s chief rival.) Alongside Cadillac and Duesenberg, Lincoln became one of America’s top-selling luxury brands.

Ford ultimately decided to keep the model and move assembly to the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada where the Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis, which also use the Ford Panther platform, are currently built. The Town Car’s manufacture resumed at its new location in late 2007.[6] The first Canadian-built Town Car rolled off the assembly line on January 10, 2008.The Town Car is currently the largest Canadian-made car, measuring nearly 18 feet (5.49 m) in length for a standard Town Car and 18+1⁄2 ft (5.64 m) for an L Edition.

The Town Car is, despite recently declining sales numbers, one of the best selling American luxury cars. It also serves as America’s most used limousine and chauffeured car.While relatively affordable when compared to European flagship luxury sedans, the Town Car is currently the most expensive American luxury sedan (according to base MSRP) with prices ranging from $45,815 for a basic Signature Series to $54,140 for a top-of-the-line Signature L Series.