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| | Test Drive Notes: Lincoln Town Car, Cartier Edition 2001 |
 | | It's tempting to call the Lincoln Town Car a dinosaur, a relic from the days when all serious automobiles had body-on-frame construction, V8 engines, rear-wheel drive, acres of sheet metal, and more interior furnishings than a Pullman coach. |
 | | The Town Car we tested is the new Cartier edition, which, with a cars.com target price of $40,885, allows you to flaunt your good taste with such to-die-for luxuries as monogrammed floor mats, "Cartier Chrome aluminum wheels," and heated front seats with no fewer than five temperature settings. |
 | | How much longer the Town Car continues to be made depends on two things: its target market remembering to take their cholesterol medication, and its continuing favor in the hotel-airport shuttle trade, where its passenger capacity and mechanical simplicity make it the vehicle of choice. |
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