The last of the stereotypical “geezermobiles” is finally rolling into the nursing home.
Ford Motor Co. is beginning a (long-overdue) relaunch of it’s Lincoln brand. General Motors and Chrysler realized several years ago that they need to market their luxury cars to somebody other than 93-year-old grandmothers. Looks like Ford finally got the memo.
I think the new design in that article looks pretty sharp.
I still don’t think I’d ever buy a Lincoln or a Buick or a Oldsmobile, all cars that are thoroughly cemented in my head as Old People cars.
Then again there’s only a handful of American cars I’d buy in the first place, at least until they are as reliable in the long term as my little Honda.
When my parents died, I inherited their “geezer” Grand Marquis.
I have to admit, it is an amazingly comfortable car that seats 5 people quite nicely and is a smooth ride with a nice kick in speed when I floor it.
It would most certainly not have been something I would have bought, but now that I have it, I don’t care who laughs or makes snide comments - it is like having a comfortable sofa with wheels and I will drive it until it falls apart. And I even buy the “white wall” tires to keep it in perfect geezer shape.
Oh, I had no idea. I still see them tooling around town. Admittedly I haven’t looked too closely into it, seeing as how I had no intention and no interest!
Ha, for a split second I thought, “There was a geezermobiles here?” The very next split second I realized, “Oh, this must be about Chrysler.” I could live to be 100 and would still never be old and geezerly enough to want one of those cars.
Eighty-year-old Leroy Brown, who drives a custom Continental and an Eldorado too, and still carries scars from that nasty scrap 40 years ago, will not be happy about this.
Apparently so. My wife has been mocking me for a solid month after I told a bunch of obnoxious ghetto teenagers to literally get off my lawn late on Halloween (like 10 pm) because they were carrying on and about to wake the baby up.
I’m a fan- I had a 1987 Crown Vic for several years in the late 1990s, and while complicated (it had some sort of totally vacuum controlled climate control system and some kind of air shocks), it was a generally reliable and definitely comfortable ride.
What exactly is a geezermobile? All the geezers I see around here are driving Camrys and Accords or even a Lexus or two. Hell, I even saw a Buick without a handicapped plate the other day.
Sadly, I miss the rear wheel drive V8 cars that had back seats big enough for two so to speak.
We have a 2001 Lincoln Continental that we bought three years ago for $4,000. Yep, at a time when you could hardly find a smaller kid car for under $3,000 we bought a luxury, leather seated, brand new looking, geezer car. That thing is so comfortable and drives so nice we’re never looking back. Pretty good mileage on the higway too. It’s going to be used luxury cars for us from now on, they depreciate like crazy.
I have always been amused at the utter terribleness of the brand name “Oldsmobile.” I can’t believe GM kept it around as long as they did. The instant they started making cars that actually catered towards “olds”, they were done for.