Lincoln is an American luxury automobile brand, operated under the Ford Motor Company.

History
A company was founded within 1917 by Henry M. Leland. Leland, one of a founders of Cadillac, left the Cadillac section of General Motors during World War I and formed the Lincoln Motor Company to build Liberty aircraft engines. When a war, a company's manufacturing plant were retooled to manufacture luxury auto.

A company found severe fiscal troubles when you took a transition, & was consequently bought by Ford Motor Company in 1922, who however owns & manufactures cars under a Lincoln brand name within its Lincoln-Mercury division. the buy of Lincoln was the personalized triumph for Ford world health organization experienced been forced away from his 2nd company by a class action of investors led by Leland. That company was renamed Cadillac. Around 1927, Lincoln adopted the greyhound as their emblem.

A Continental which became a first car manufactured by Lincoln began as a of these-off design car for Edsel Ford to drive about within vacations in Florida. Edsel wanted a European-style car unlike the box-shaped designs his father's company produced. A Continental proven popular & plans were mass produced to sell it.

A Continental Mark II was by a short-ephemeral Continental section from either April 1955 to July 1956 prior to it was returned to the Lincoln trade name. a Mark II got a basic listings price of $10,000, the equivalent price as a Rolls-Royce that year. A Edsel section was merged with a Lincoln-Mercury section around January 1958 to form a Lincoln-Edsel-Mercury division until a Edsel was discontinued around 1960.

When recently when 1998 Lincoln was a right-selling luxury brand in the United States, helped per massive profits of the Navigator SUV. Inside recent years, yet, the company has fallen behind Japanese, European, & U.s. competition for a want of recently system. A company is working to guide this, all the same, & is sharing area & platforms by using other Ford divisions worldwide within an attempt to bring more newly system to market sooner. the company promises 5 newly system in a quadruplet years 2004-2008, & has already begun sustaining the newly Mark LT pickup & a revival of the Zephyr title.

Presidential Cars
Leland known as a brand when his longtime hero Abraham Lincoln, for whom he had voted around 1860 in the first presidential elections he was eligible for. Lincoln got an extended history of providing limo for the U.S. President. A number 1 car specially built for Presidential utilize was a 1939 Lincoln V12 convertible known as a "Sunshine Special" utilized by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It remained inside apply until 1950. a 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan known as the "Bubble Top" was utilized by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and once by Johnson. It was retired within 1965. the Kennedy car was a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible. It was within utilise from either 1961 to 1977, with undergone extensive alterations which manufactured it an armor-armor-clad sedan fallowing Kennedy's assassination. The 1969 Lincoln was utilized by Nixon and a 1972 Lincoln utilized by Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush. a 1989 Lincoln wwhen the previous Presidential Lincoln as of 2004. Cadillac supplied Presidential limousines around 1983, 1993 & 2001.

Lincoln cars
Lincoln L-series (1920-1930) Lincoln K-series (1931-1939) Lincoln Zephyr (1936-1942), a car line priced between Ford & Lincoln Lincoln-Zephyr Continental (1940-1942, 1946-1948), later on Lincoln Continental Lincoln Custom (1941-1942) Lincoln (there are no more title) (1946-1951) Lincoln Sport (1949-1951) Lincoln Cosmopolitan (1949-1954) Lincoln Lido (1950-1951) Lincoln Custom (1955) Lincoln Capri (1952-1959) Continental Mark II (1956-1957), produced when Continental was the separate division Continental Mark III (1958) Lincoln Premiere (1956-1960) Lincoln Continental (1961-2002) Lincoln Continental Mark III (1969-1971) Lincoln Continental Mark IV (1972-1976) Lincoln Continental Mark V (1977-1979) Lincoln Continental Mark VI (1980-1983) Lincoln Versailles (1976-1980) Lincoln Continental Mark VII (1984-1992), later known as Lincoln Mark VII Lincoln Mark VIII (1993-1998) Lincoln Town Car (1981- ) Lincoln LS (2000- ) Lincoln Zephyr (2006-)

Lincoln trucks and SUVs
Lincoln Blackwood (2002) Lincoln Navigator (1998- ) Lincoln Aviator (2003- ) Lincoln Mark LT (2005- )

Concept cars
Lincoln Futura