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2003 Lincoln Town Car Full-Size Luxury Sedan
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Set on a stiff new platform and outfitted with a revamped suspension and responsive new steering mechanism, Town Car in any issue of 2003 quickly reveals in a drive up a wiggly route that it can perform handling tricks like no full-size American luxury sedan before it.
The ride quality, while still plush and smooth, also feels more stable and more precisely controlled, the tail comfortably settled on blacktop and tracking straight while following the lead of the prow.
A quick glance at the shapely sheetmetal styling for Town Car -- slick curving shoulders, the exaggerated prow tapering to a bold chrome grille, flared rear fenders and a roof crowned by convexly curved rear glass evoking images of a Bugatti coupe from the 1930s -- looks similar to the predecessor Town Car that debuted as a 1998 model.
The form does not hint at the car's taut and tuned chassis and the revised suspension elements, or the new layout of a spacious cabin with more room for riders and rearranged best-in-class space in the trunk.
To discover these new attributes, you must do more than eye the keen and fluid lines: You must buckle up behind the steering wheel and take a Town Car to task on a winding road, which explains our canyon run across the mountains.
Designers from Lincoln who engineered structural and mechanical changes for Town Car suggest that the difference in handling and ride quality between previous and new versions will become evident after only the first fifty meters of a test drive.
While we're convinced one cannot ascertain much about any vehicle in so short a span, we can relate that -- after fifty miles of steering this latest vintage up the stop-and-go Pacific Coast Highway, across the Santa Monica Mountains and down the 101 freeway at a quick clip -- the improvements make Town Car very easy to drive and incredibly comfortable.
It feels compliant on congested city streets. It deftly manoeuvres through a snaky route without excessive sway or tilted body, and it can romp down a freeway's fast lane.
Abundant power flows from the big Town Car engine that's fitted with high-tech hardware and tuned with low-torque output so a driver feels the juice flowing through all four forward gears.
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