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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Just bought a new Daily Driver

Posted by: mharrison Aug 13 2005, 09:27 PM

But my new '01 Lincoln LS is one hell of a nice ride!

I started out looking at the BMW 7 series. WAY TOO MUCH COIN!

I moved into the 5 series Didn't like as much and TOO MUCH COIN!

Lincoln LS was looking nice. Read about the Jaguar engineering. S-type suspension. Drove the V8 and was PLANTED in the seat. That car hauls ass.

Drove a V6 with the Sport package. Tighter suspension and Tiptronic type transmission. I am convinced that this car will outdrive the v8 unless we're in a straight line.

I gave the guy a 99 Saturn SC1 with 135,000 miles (NADA Retail on the Saturn was $3500) and $6000 cash for it. All in all about $9500 including the sales tax. Car Blue Books at $12,725. I think I did OK.

I am enjoying it, but I have some problems with saying that I own a Lincoln. This conjures images of the old man wearing a hat and driving his Town Car to the post office.

Anyway, I love it!!!

Posted by: i love porsche Aug 13 2005, 10:33 PM

the LS is a very nice car...the V8 has power to spare, and the tiptronic style transmission is a fun plus. when it came out it was rivaling the 5 series and mercedes..great car..and enjoy her!

Posted by: Lou W Aug 13 2005, 10:40 PM

IMO, I think you made a good choice, I'm considering one too, I won't need to make a decision for a couple more moths.

Posted by: rhodyguy Aug 14 2005, 09:38 AM

brother and sister in-laws recently dumped their 01 lincoln. seems that same fancy trans went south. $5k replacement bill. so they tradeed a dead lincoln for a used camry.

k

Posted by: mack914 Aug 14 2005, 10:30 AM

Fix Or Repaired Daily. Good luck....

Posted by: anderssj Aug 14 2005, 10:39 AM

Nice car! I've admired them for a while, and am still considering a local V6 with a manual trans.

As mentioned earlier some auto-trans issues are starting to pop up. There are a couple of pretty good threads on that at the Lincoln LS forum:

http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/showthread.php?t=4126

One to keep an eye on . . . as a few of the dealers have fixed some of these even though they are out of warranty.