Lincoln Mark series

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The Continental Mark series (later renamed Lincoln Mark series) is a series of personal luxury cars that was produced by Ford Motor Company from 1956 to 1960 and from the 1969 to 1998 model years. Serving as the flagship vehicle for Ford Motor Company, the model line derived its heritage from the 1940–1948 Lincoln Continental, a model line that established the personal luxury car segment. The Mark series was inaugurated with the 1956–1957 Continental Mark II, which was the first (and only) product line of the Continental Division, which was introduced to provide Ford Motor Company a luxury car brand slotted above Lincoln (with the Mark II serving as the most expensive car sold in the United States). Produced for approximately a year, the hand-built Mark II lent several design elements that would be adopted for the rest of the model line: a two-door coupe design (with few exceptions), a continental tire trunklid design (derived from the spare tire mounting of the 1940s Lincoln Continental...

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