I’ve been a busy, busy Fiend lately. Aside from hooning the delicious Covertte Convertible Z51, the good people at Ford had us up to the company’s Michigan Proving Ground to sample the much celebrated 3.5-liter twin-turbo Ecoboost engine in the 2010 MKS. The Blue Oval has spent a good amount of time pontificating on the [...]
What, think it’s not Fiendish? I’m here to tell you a 350 horsepower all-wheel driver is the epitome of Fiendish. Expect a full-on We Drive tomorrow. Mmm, progress.
The boys at the Blue Oval have set pricing on the first car to carry the mythical Ecoboost twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6. The 2010 Lincoln MKS can be had with the miracle mill for $47,760. If you were wondering why the posts dropped off the face of the planet yesterday, it’s because I was helming this [...]
BARUTH: Don’t look now, but while Cadillac was busy setting Nurburgring lap times, Lincoln was busy building the first true-blue new American luxury sedan in perhaps two decades. I had the pleasure of driving the MKS more than five hundred miles on Thanksgiving Day, and it was just that — a pleasure. The nearly perfect [...]
One of Ford’s buzzwords at the 2009 NAIAS was EcoBoost. Forget having a Hemi in it — you want an EcoBoosted engine under hood. Why’s that? Well, you love power, right? All us red blooded types do. But power by itself isn’t enough anymore. The kids want a clean planet. And hate paying for pricey [...]
Remember the Ecoboost? Ford’s been banging away on a V6, direct injection turbo’d engine for awhile, and the product is supposed to show up in the 2010 Lincoln MKS by mid 2009. Now we get word FoMoCo’s got its sights set on cranking out a four-cylinder variant. Now that’s exciting. According to Detroit News, Ford’s [...]
We’re in Washington DC for the launch of the 2009 Lincoln MKS. Its an important car for Lincoln debuting the new design DNA with the new look twin grill front end inspired by Lincoln’s venerated sedans of the ’30s, when the brand was one of America’s leading luxury carmakers. The MKS is touted as offering [...]
