Vehicle Description
If you go into a Lincoln store today, you'd be forgiven for not
quite knowing where you were. Ford's luxury division seems to have
forgotten the cars that made Lincoln great, and there's just no
excuse for not having an elegant Town Car on the showroom floor.
The 3rd generation Town Cars were the last of the big-body,
American executive luxury breed, and fortunately, this 2003 Lincoln
Town Car is a fantastic performer with low miles and exemplary
preservation, so you can satisfy your ultra-luxury Lincoln craving
without having to settle for whatever sedan they're calling a
Lincoln these days.
The Town Car was a great showcase of Ford's silky smooth 4.6 liter
Modular SOHC V8, which gave the luxurious 4-door the moves of a
much lighter car. American through and through, it's big, strong,
silent, and capable of eating up vast stretches of highway without
breaking a sweat. The Town Car was always Lincoln's flagship
executive car, the one that competed with Cadillac for decades and
transported the world's elite all around the globe. With a pillowy
suspension, big tires, silky-smooth steering, purring dual exhaust,
and a full line of America's top motoring amenities, riding in this
beauty makes all passengers feel like Kings and Queens of the
universe. In truth, Lincoln seemed to nail the balance of luxury
and power by never getting stingy with horsepower and torque to go
along with its undeniably regal good looks, creating a car that
looks handsome and refined, yet extremely distinctive, and whose
performance exceeds expectations. Redesigned in 2003, both the
chassis and body underwent significant changes to bring it in line
with more contemporary Lincoln vehicles, including a more
squared-off lowered body, a Lincoln LS-style oval grille, and the
celebrated return of the Lincoln hood ornament. With just 62K
original miles and only 2-owners since new (and yes, it's always
been senior-owned), this gorgeous sedan shows extremely well, with
the Light Parchment paint glowing in the sun and showing very few
signs of use and age today. In fact, buff-and-wax this beauty over
the weekend and it will pretty much look brand new again. High-end
Town Cars like this one got big, bright headlights, a glistening
chrome grille, sparkling chrome molding encircling the entire car,
and those iconic bright red taillights out back - beautiful accents
added to an already amazing package.
The beige leather interior is simply gorgeous, with a compact
instrument panel ahead of the driver that feels very futuristic,
and plenty of real wood accents adorning the cabin. The pillow-soft
leather seats are power actuated and heated up front, show almost
zero wear and certainly no damage beyond some very slight signs of
age in the high-traffic areas, and even the plush carpets and
matching floor mats remain in excellent shape. There's some
gorgeous burled wood on the dash, door panels, and steering wheel
that add even more class to an already sophisticated cabin, a
compact yet informative instrument panel that houses big,
digital/analog gauges that you can read at a glance, and an elegant
entertainment center stack with an accompanying clock that looks
like it was plucked straight from Cartier's front window on 5th
Avenue. Obviously, as Lincoln's flagship, everything was standard,
from automatic climate control with ice cold A/C, to power
everything, to a sophisticated computer that monitors, well, just
about everything. Cruise control and stereo buttons are on the
beautiful steering wheel and there's a powerful AM/FM/CD stereo
system with CD changer and in the hushed Town Car's interior, so it
sounds amazing. Safety is covered thanks to airbags and an
anti-theft system, and if you've ever researched a Town Car, you'll
know that it's one of the safest cars on the road - which is
precisely why it's entrusted to carry the some of the world's most
precious cargo. It's obvious that nothing short of a Brooks
Brother's suit has ever touched the rear seat, and out back the
cavernous trunk could comfortably hold a Secret Service agent or
two, along with a full set of golf clubs and maybe even the whole
golf cart.
With 239 horsepower on tap and a strong 287 lb-ft torque curve at
the ready that feels like it could haul half of Capitol Hill away
(and good riddance to the lot of them), the Town Car is
surprisingly fast, and that SOHC V8 makes a sound akin to ripping
silk as it effortlessly floats towards redline. In truth, there
still aren't many cars this size that can attack off the line and
handle top highway speeds with such ease, and punching this car
around town produces an unending stream of torque that hurls the
big sedan forward. It's properly maintained and if service in
Mustang Cobras has taught us anything, it's that this Modular motor
is virtually indestructible. The 4-speed automatic overdrive
transmission has a knack for always being in the right gear and it
just loafs along at highway speeds thanks to tall gears out back.
The freshly redesigned chassis and all-independent suspension were
fully retuned for the 2003 year, and the steering system was
changed from the prehistoric recirculating-ball system to a modern
power rack-and-pinion set-up, which give it an incredible ride that
seems to ignore bumps and can bend corners with ease. You can see
just how clean this car is with a glance underneath; obviously it
has never spent time in the snow and salt thanks to a life spent in
Texas since new. Big power disc brakes with ABS haul it down from
speed without drama and it's fitted with gorgeous alloy wheels
wearing Michelin radials all around.
One of the last of Lincoln's luxury sedans is still a fantastic car
today, and at this price, you get incredible performance and luxury
for pennies on the dollar. Call today!
