Lincoln's Making 80 Special Edition Continentals With Suicide Doors

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That's what they've always been called, lack of sensitivity notwithstanding.

Lincoln's Making 80 Special Edition Continentals With Suicide Doors

Patrick George
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{I got the image from Fox News. Jalopnik gives their images names that don't work at DU.}

Okay, so Lincoln is, for real, bringing suicide doors back to the fancy but unfortunately slow-selling Continental sedan. Just not very many of them, and those that do get snatched up by buyers are destined to become instant collector’s items.

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Lincoln announced this morning that in celebration of the Continental’s 80th birthday, it’s putting out a limited run of 80 special edition models with the iconic center-opening doors that were first introduced on the 1961 Continental. ... This is corporate America, so of course they can’t call them “suicide doors.” Thus, this car is the Lincoln Continental 80th Anniversary Coach Door Edition. They’re not being done in-house, but rather by Cabot Coach Builders, as Car and Driver notes.

In addition to the doors, this Continental sports a six-inch longer wheelbase, a pass-through rear seat console with a stowable tray table and Lincoln Black Label personalization. It’ll be super nice, in other words. And power stays the same: 400 horses from a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6.

Pricing hasn’t been officially announced but The Detroit Free Press says they’ll retail for at least $100,000 each.
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LINCOLNPublished 4 hours ago
Lincoln bringing back 'suicide doors' on 2019 Continental

By Gary Gastelu | Fox News



Lincoln brought back the Continental name two years ago and now it's resurrecting a feature that’s commonly known by a name it would prefer you don’t use.



To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the model, Lincoln is offering a limited run of 80 Coach Door Edition Continentals for 2019 equipped with what are colloquially known as “suicide doors.”



The rear-hinged rear doors hearken back to the 1961-1969 heyday of the Continental, when it was at the height of fashion. They offer a stylish and arguably easier way to enter and exit the vehicle.



The cars start as top of the line Black Label trim Continentals and are modified by limousine specialist Cabot Coach of Haverhill, Mass., with a wheelbase stretched six inches that also improves rear legroom.
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Those 1961 Continentals were sooooooo handsome.