Town Car Soon to be Not on the Town

2006_09_fordtocity.jpgYou know from the Daily News headline, Ford to Town Car: Drop dead, that the Daily News secretly wishes they could have made an article about Ford ending production of the Lincoln Town Car a cover story. The Lincoln Town Car is beloved by drivers (reliable!) passengers (legroom!), and even criminals (trunk room for bodies!), but Ford won't be building Town Cars after next year. Gothamist will put money down on car service companies buying more next year, to stock up - some of those Town Cars in current fleets have that cherry-BO/stale cigarette smoke smell (we can deal with that in our cabs, but not our Town Cars).

The Town Cars are ubiquitous (80% of the car service market), so the question is what will drivers and car fleet buy in the futre? New York magazine tackled the topic of what might the next go-to vehicle for the car service industry would be in early August. Odds are on the Lincoln MKS, while some cars, like the Chrysler 300 which is a nice ride but, as one limo company says, “I can’t tell someone at the St. Regis to look for a Chrysler.” Hmm, what about green cars? When we wrote about a Town Car overload in April, our readers mentioned OzoCar (also written about in NY magazine) and green city transportation as environmentally conscious car service options.

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Oh well. Town car drivers are the worst drivers on the face of the earth. They'll tailgate you when you're on the FDR doing 70, but get behind one and it'll crawl along at 25 mph. FUCK EM.

I love my Town Car, but people are constantly hailing me or trying to get in.

Towncar + Crash = flames

I heard through the so called grapevine that they were getting hybrid toyotas..who knows..what about the fare hike? Screw them..i'll walk or take the subway..I might even get a chance to have someone pull the emergency brake and I can pretend I am on a disney ride..whee! Now all I need in a maze of mirrors to get to the turnstyles...

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