The Lincoln Mark series was a series of personal luxury cars that long served as the flagship of the Ford Motor Company product line. The branding of the Mark series grew out of, and long overlapped, that of the Lincoln Continental series. The Mark series started in 1956 as the newly formed Continental Division introduced a successor to the original Lincoln Continental of 1940–1948. In 1958, the Mark series moved to Lincoln, where it was produced until 1960. In 1968, the Mark series was re-introduced as a personal luxury car, as the Lincoln Continental Mark III. In 1998, the discontinuation of the Mark VIII ended the series. The V8 version of the 2000 Lincoln LS was marketed as its replacement as the market for personal luxury coupes declined in the late 1990s.
Today, the influence of the Mark Series remains in the current Lincoln naming scheme. All models introduced since 2007 have adopted an "MK" alphanumeric prefix. The only model in the current Lincoln lineup that doesn't use an "MK" prefix name is the Navigator.
Read more about Lincoln Mark Series: Historical Background and Branding, Mark II (1956–1957), Mark III, IV and V (1958–1960), Mark III (1969–1971), Mark IV (1972–1976), Mark V (1977–1979), Mark VI (1980–1983), Mark VII (1984–1992), Mark VIII (1993–1998)
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