How the hell do you go from this..

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...to this...

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...to this?

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>>16122747
... to this

>>16122747
$3.00+/gallon fuel prices is how this happens...

>>16122771
What fucked up country do you live in where gas is that expensive?

>>16122771
Gas isn't that expensive right now
According to my quick google search gas cost pretty close to what it did in the late 60s adjusted for inflation. Not that its matters, everyones about those mpg's anyways
>>16122812
Even $3/gallon is cheap compared to what they have to pay in europe.

>>16122812
Gas was $4/gal at one point in America

>>16122747
What's with all these fucking lincoln conti shilling lately?

>>16122825
>right now
that shit is fluid. it goes up and down.

>>16122812
Just Googled some of the higher cost States/locations, and used that figure.

And it'll go up soon enough also. $3.00/gallon is a nice round number to use, and still explains why cars are now what they are.

>>16122832
It's been pretty stable for a while now though. I haven't seen it above like $2.40 in quite a while.
We just had the spike in the 2000s and everyone freaked out. Everyone thought it was go up to $7-8/gallon.

>>16122848
this is true. I started driving a heavy mom suv as my only car when gas was 4.60 a gallon in cali and I got like 14mpg. shit sucked ass.

>>16122757
simple, ford knew what they were doing, stay btfo

>>16122829
Close to $5 at one point in socal

>>16122848
>We just had the spike in the 2000s and everyone freaked out
The spike was not a spike but a gradual rise in the cost due to peak oil having been reached in multiple major locations. Even the middle east has crossed peak oil except for Iran.

What drastically lowered the cost was the availability in quantity of fracked oil and several new pipelines being allowed to transport that oil. Despite Obama's early interference with both fracking and pipelines, he eventually saved in to republican demands. The subsequent decrease in prices in the usa then also caused prices elsewhere in the world to drop. Thus, this drop in prices was a bonus for oil users elsewhere in the world too.

>>16122747
Because Ford has never had a real mission for Lincoln. It started out as something for Edsel to do but after he died it never had a leader strong enough to give it a direction. The closest it came was in the Seventies when its products were tailored to appeal to Henry II more than anything else and that was just incidentally a high point for the marque.

Lincoln still doesn't really have a reason to exist and it shows in the relatively lackluster offerings that are ok but not compelling. It should be Ford's Lexus but apparently they aren't willing to spend the money to take it there.