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Click image for a gallery of the suspected Lincoln MKT mule

According to an LA Times piece (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-garage5jan05,1,7541183.story?track=rss) on the silliness that is modern vehicle naming, the paper appears to have flubbed a little bit revealing that Ford will introduce the 2009 Lincoln MKT at the Detroit Auto Show next week. What's the MKT? Well, the conventional wisdom suggests (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=124191) that it's a large 3-row crossover based on the Ford Flex architecture. We expect to see it wearing Lincoln's new, more dramatic styling language as introduced on the MKS along with a more upmarket interior in terms of look and feel. Looks like the spy shots that came out last week (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/04/spy-shots-ford-flex-based-crossover-for-lincoln/) were timelier than we thought. While the mule pictured is wearing Taurus X bodywork, there's no hiding the new-look baleen whale grille that Lincoln has adopted. We won't need to wait much longer to see how this ultimately plays out, so as soon as we know the full skinny, you'll know, too.

[Source: Los Angeles Times via Inside Line (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=124191)]
Gallery: Lincoln MKT Flex-based CUV - spy shots
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