Lincoln Continental Mark V
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The Lincoln Continental Mark V was a large coupe-style car sold by Lincoln, the Ford Motor Company's luxury division, between the 1977 and 1979 model years. The Mark V was a restyled Mark IV, replacing that car's more rounded styling with a more squared-off, sharp-edged look that was the new automotive fashion. The standard engine was now the Ford 400 cubic inch (6.6 L) small-block engine instead of the 460 cubic inch (7.5 L) Ford 385 engine, but the latter was available as an option everywhere but in California in the first two years of production.
Lincoln, with the Mark V and Continental, held out for the giant American car longer than anyone else, but after 1979 it would not be possible. Ford came dangerously close to violating the Corporate Average Fuel Economy laws that year, and subsequent models would be substantially smaller.