Here's The Lincoln Continental We Want To See For The Next Generation

 If Ford saw fit, the luxury Lincoln Continental nameplate - and classy American hero - could return with a sleek design such as this render.

There are few things more American than a Continental – and we’re not talking about the Bentley Continental, but rather a discontinued luxury car by Ford subsidiary Lincoln which managed to survive until 2020 when it finally bowed out of service due to several factors.

The savvy among us might notice that luxury cars aren’t going away, and neither are sedans; despite what we see and hear in the media – luxury sedans just work and are as popular as ever.

That’s what HotCars designer Rostislav Prokop would have us believe with this render, a speculative view of how Lincoln’s most famous car might look if it returned for 2023.

The New Lincoln Continental For 2023 Brings Back Luxury To America Once More

In its tenth-generation, the Continental finally left the marketplace after 80 years, a multitude of changes, and more than one discontinuation. The penultimate discontinuation happened just before the tenth generation when the car went on hiatus for 14 years.

This time it looks like it might be final, but as we’ve seen, luxury sedans have a loyal client base and keep returning from the Chrysler 300C to the Bentleys, and to the Maybachs.

If it came back once more, the Conti might look something like this render, with a familiar, almost Jaguar XF-look, a look that comes from Lincoln’s own MKS and MKZ line as well as the final tenth-gen Continental.

It gets based on the 1965 Continental as inspiration, though it has a rounded front, curved head lamps and the center grille like those more recent models from the brand, with a few of its own features and details that distinguish it as a special car.

Lincoln Is Not Making The Continental Again, But This Design Takes Things To A New Level

The 2023 Lincoln Continental render has a similar face, but the suicide doors and rear design try to recreate the classic car’s ethos under the auspices of modern car design.

In an interesting twist, up back it has vertical light units like the Lincoln MKS and of course the 1960s Continental, and the flat rear trunk returns once more with the Lincoln name text, integrated exhaust pipes and some chrome decoration.

The headlamps and indeed all the lights are LEDs, which look suitably high-end and modern, while large chrome ‘turbine-style’ wheel rims stand out against the somber paint job.

Lincoln won’t be making the Continental again for the foreseeable future as it moves away from low-volume sedans to SUVs, just like its parent company Ford.

It’s hard making sedans the core unit shifter in a business - not to mention luxury sedans – and the Continental’s finally years got marred by very poor sales, though the nameplate could easily get revived for a large EV sedan at some point.