What appears to be an American car can sometimes be half the story. The
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These were poorly marketed; Iโve always loved these Lincolns. The friends that had them loved them so much. I always hoped theyโd make another generation.
Something similar happened to me when I bought a "Isuzu Hombre" i thought that I was buying a Japanese truck but it was just a rebadged Chevy S10.
I'd rather have a Jaguar rthan a Lincoln any day… So I'd consider this up upgrade not a downgrade ๐ Also Nissan does not own Renault. They have a cross-ownership agreement, so each company is invested in the other. If anything, it would be the other way around – Nissan owns 15% of Renault, while Renault owns 45% of Nissan, so I'd say Renault is the owner in this case. In my country both of they're dealerships are combined together and had been for years.
IV been told to stay away from these "Lincoln Ls's" for Decades but I never knew why.
Friends dad had one when I was in high school. I remember getting picked up in it and really liking it. Another car that I had some envy for was a bright blue gli. Good times ๐
You buy Mercedes Citan thinking it's a german car, and yet you get Dacia Dokker from Romania in disguise.. badge engineering to get you ripped off
I had an 02 LS and and 03 T bird. They rode like a dream and handled great. Main issues coil packs and valve covers gaskets. I bought the t bird new and ford covered coil packs once. Paid 1600 the second time out of pocket after 10 year coverage for original owners ford satisfaction program ended. Next came the cluster failure and front end control module. Ford has obsoleted the parts. Traded the t bird on a 2016 5.0 convertible. Sold the 02 LS due to the oil leaks. If you can get the parts and are a mechanic might be an ok car but otherwise get out your wallet for big bills!
Iโm so surprised my grandparents bought their Lincoln LS brand new in 2001 as well as a Lincoln Navigator.
But they donโt have there LS anymore the donated it now I can see why.
The Lincoln Navigator is still going strong with 200,000 miles NO ISSUES ever!
No wander they glide great info
The Lincoln is a hard one
Ford owns jaguar and has a majority interest in Mazda
I used to want one of these cars when they came out.
It's basically an imitation E46 BMW.
So the 2007 mkz V6 is American
Before this video even gets started I will say Jaguar V8 and platform.
Also I was very impressed the first time I ever drove a Lincoln LS back in the early to mid 2000s to 2010s. It wasn't like any Lincoln I had driven before. It handled well for a 4 door and had a screamer of a V8. Even if it wasn't a high performance engine by today's standards it came off as a fun quick revving engine by the standards of that time.
I wish I would get the opportunity to one day drive a early 2000s thunderbird. Because I know that Jaguar 3.9 will be a smooth powerful engine for a car like that. Even if it's not a true performance car or engine
I would think a Wizard oil change would total this car.
I bought an 05 LS V8 2 years ago with over 200k on the odometer and haven't had a single problem. I love this car and drive it every day
I drove one on a test drive, v8 had zero power and the brakes were absolutely shit.
Passed on it at the dealership. The continental 32v 4.6 blew the doors off of these in the 1/4.
I get sad every time I see one. Seems like no one took care of them and I really liked them when they came out my senior year of high school.
SAAB is GM shitty plastic. I own a -04 SAAB 9โต so I lnow the struggle…
My second car!! I loved her!!
My 2002 thunderbird has the same engine. I have low miles and so far no major issues. Even the center stack looks the same on the interior. Interesting.
My 2002 (retro) Thunderbird has the same Jaguar A-30 drive train and in the cabin the same center column and radio/cd changer.
Knew it was gonna be a Jaguar since its an early 2000's Ford. ๐
Interestingly enough the current 5.0L jaguar V8 is actually a AJseries V8 as well, Aside from the larger displacement and possibly some updated Tech essentially it's this engine just bigger. If only Jack would have let Ford had the 4.0L supercharged V8, and stuff it in the Thunderbird that road on this platform it would have been a badass car
Lmao @10:42 ish that was funny ๐คฃ๐คฃ
The new Toyota Supra is ultimate Toyota engineering…………………….NOT!!
My grandmother had one and was fresh from the factory. She never really drove it and my father drove the crap out of it. He nearly rolled over hitting a corner. She got rid of it for a newer mkz
This was an absolutely amazing car new.
Be nice to cover the tags. I had a 2000 LS. It's mostly a Jaguar. Those dang head gasket leaked a lot
Junk!!!! What more can I say???
So what should we call it, a Jincoln or a Laguar?
Nissan not owns Renault … Renault owns Nissan
I thought it had been common knowledge since it came out that it was sorta just a slightly worse version of the 4.0 S-Type.
I bet that Mrs. Wizard refers to Tyler H. as "The Dork" in conversations with Papa Wizard. At least that is how it goes down at my house when the autoplay algorithm foists him on us.
That's from the point in time which ford also owned Jaguar and used them for lincoln and also the platform that became s197 mustang (05-11) I think
Good example: You'd think the Toyota Supra is a Toyota. NOPE. It's a BMW.
I drove one for about a year before I lost it in a wreck when I hit some black ice in December of 2021. It was the best driving car Iโve ever owned, and easily the best American car Iโve ever had. It was also the least reliable car Iโve ever owned and it left me on the side of the freeway extremely frequently while I waited for the engine to cool down. That thing overheated like fish swim, it was just what the car did. Was also not great on gas.
But those moments when I was gunning down the freeway in this thing nearly made up for it. I miss that car.
Dohc 3.0 was same in Lincoln Merc and Jag.. and all plastic manifolds and coolant.. they broke all the time..
I started out working on cars with my Mexican cholo neighbors in L.A., and some old white guys to, they taught me old school things and ways to repair stuff, but as a job I started out as a lube tech at a Jiffy Lube, after years and other shops I ended up being a lead or head tech at shops, ive always, since I was 15 have worked on my own and my families cars, I finally ended up at a shop where I was training the new hires, and doing minor repair work(brakes, tune-ups, easy parts replacing, etc…) So that the boss/owner and his main mechanic could work on bigger jobs, by this time I had already learned Driveability, and I can and have since I was 18 can pretty much tell what noise is what, I can tell the difference in a tappet tapping, to a ticking injector, and engine knocking or a harmonic balancer that's gone out, or a CV joint clacking and a freeze plug pifting, and this comes in handy when you wanna make the boss look bad, lol we had a customer who was a good friend of his brought his dodge truck, because there was a slit ticking or tapping sound and it had lost a little in the performance, not much, not really a biggie bought his buddy, our boss insisted on it, so after throwing it in the air looking around and checking things, then driving around coming back and putting it in the air while running and still couldn't figure out what was going on, he told him that he'll make a few calls to find out what's going on, but first it needs an oil change, I had a trainee down stairs training him in lower bay devices and technics when it rolled over us, before they had shut it off o was on a stool, flashlight in had and looking for what I kinda knew it could be, I stopped the customer and told him, hay I think your driver's side rear freeze plug is leaking and making that pat pat pat sound but I'll check better when we restart it, he says ok, he tells my boss who says oh that guy don't know sh*t, after the restart I was certain it was the issue, I told the guy, and showed him that the aluminum dust cap wasn't fully seated and there was oil leaking out, not alot but enough to visibly look at it and see it, it said go to CSK, grab a new one, take a putty knife and pop off this one, find a socket that's the exact dimensions as the inside of the cap so it will fit perfectly inside then grab a rubber mallet put the cap in the hole put the socket in the cap the one or two good whacks should seat it in properly, my boss said I was an idiot, this idiot got a $200 bonus from the bosses friend for being the only person, after 5 shops, the dealership and his friend(my boss) failed to figure it out, my boss was actually shocked and impressed enough that I started doing the test drives to figure what wrong with the vehicles coming in, the one thing I always found and still find amazing about vehicles, the amount of cars, foreign or domestic that share parts, motors, etc… I pissed of a cusomer one day that he complained to my boss, because I wasn't impressed by him and his flashy H-2 Hummer, which for me especially when doing the lower bay tech work it's just a GM truck with a 6.0L and to me the only difference between it and a Tahoe, Yukon, Denali, Silverado, Sierra, Escalade or any other GM 4 wheel drive truck is a couple things, one it's got a bunch of un-need extra heavy parts like double thick slid plates, a giant lower frame brace made out of tubing and the ugly look they have it, but the biggest difference between it and all the other GM 4 wheel drive full size trucks and SUV's is the price, roughly about $10k-$20k over the most expensive Escalade, and to me an Escalade and even the Denali's are way over priced, cause to me as a mechanic I can buy Tahoe of the same year, switch out the hood, fenders, front facia and headlights and put all Cadillac parts on, I can switch interior parts if I really gotta have butt warmers, but I can take a Tahoe and turn it into a Escalade and still be way under the base price of a Escalade, I'm mean by alot, enough to buy another vehicle, what blew me away was when I started seeing Toyota engines in GM cars, I still laugh at the fact that up until around 2010, Ford Mustangs said Manufactured by Mazed for Ford Corporation, on the info sticker plates in the drivers door jam, I've clowned several friends with their Fox Body Mustangs built by Mazda, Zoom Zoom Zoom, lmmfao
I've had jaguar XJRs from 2004 and it's been a cake walk to own compared to my other European cars. The 4.2 AJ is fantastic. I did have to replace a set of those rear rods
"Let's get this thing in the air…and then push it out without a chute."
I like my 2003 Lincoln LS V8, 280 HP 287 Ft Lb @ 2200 RPM. Great handling and fast. Very weird under the hood.
Here is the run down from an owner since 2006. 1) Transmission is America (same as Mustang Auto 2) Engine is British and it requires 93 and high perform. 3) Complex coolant with a lot of plastic. 4) Change Coil and Plugs at mileage or any signs of misfire. A misfire will cause your transmission to slip. 5) The tires are not cheap. 6) Weak Trans, and I had my rebuilt. 7) Learn to work on this vehicle yourself and order from rockauto. 8) Be ready for the back end breaking loss which is a good thing
Name a CAR made in the United States with United States parts… I'll wait. The unaffordable Tesla is it, and they just announced a plant in Mexico. Sure, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, and Mercedes all ASSEMBLE cars here, but there hasn't been an car manufactured here since the early 1970s. It's why all the automobile manufacturers switched from "made in the USA" to "made in North America"
What is the story with the 1966 Malibu in the back of this video. I have seen it in a number of videos, and it looks good with the rally rims on it.
I had a Lincoln LS rides very nice
Damn. I learn a lot from your videos.