At next month's North American International Auto Show, BusinessWeek.com has learned that Ford Motor (F) will show a rear-drive Lincoln concept car. It will be based on the same rear-drive chassis and engineering architecture it is planning for a future design of Ford Australia's popular Falcon model.
Ford has made it clear that it wants to try to revive Lincoln. At the center of debate about the struggling brand's future is whether to bring out a rear-drive design, which luxury car buyers tend to love, or concentrate instead on front-drive and all-wheel-drive vehicles. So far, the front-drive crowd has been winning the arguments at Ford.
Read Article