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)
Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, mark and/or series:
“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favour of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)