Some of that was intentional:For a while it walked away from moneylosing fleet sales, and it killed low-margin vehicles like the Ford Escort and Lincoln Continental.

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Some witnesses said they saw a man driving a vehicle -- possibly a Lincoln Continental or a two-door Cadillac -- away from Clements' neighborhood a short time after the shooting.

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And a shiny new Lincoln Continental.

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And on the heritage front, Ford hopes to capitalize on what it says is an actual brand image in China, based in part on TV images of U.S. presidential limousines through the years as well as the Lincoln Continental that former President Richard Nixon brought with him on his historic visit to China in 1972.

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The archetypal Lincoln is the 1961 Continental.

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