My estimation of the Lincoln Town Car as a wiseguy's car just effing plummeted. To be outrun by a glorified Suburban? It's an effing disgrace!

 

1. In traffic
2. It's TV
3. How did it take you 15 years to watch this?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Nice click-bait thread title.

 

the Town Car was never a sports car. It's a luxury car that was class leading in comfort. It felt like you were riding on a cloud. At it's peak it had like 240 HP.

Also, you're basing your opinion on a TV show depiction of an Escalade chasing a Town Car that is just cruising along in traffic.

 

Sorry, yuge Sopranos fan over here. Let's not forget the time the Natural Canopy had a LS 400.

 

What disgrace? Neither one of those vehicles was designed for a track or drag-strip.....to wish or pretend otherwise simply ignores reality. IMO, the only disgrace I can see in the video was in wrecking a perfectly good Town Car for nothing but movie entertainment. Sedans like that are getting harder and harder to find all the time now, due to the conversion of sedans to unibody and FWD.

 

To be fair to them, that scene was filmed when the Town Car was still being manufactured.

 

Yes, I figured that. IMO still a waste of vehicles, though......in most cases, I'm not a fan of wrecking them just for entertainment or click-bait, although I'll admit that some of the old demolition-derbies where they were driving true clunkers, could be fun to watch.

 

Knowing it was going to be crashed in the chase scene they probably put a coat of paint and the (ugly) continental kit on an old Town Car that was on its last legs.

 

i never liked seeing that LS go through the treatment it did lol

 

Seriously, folks, it's a TV show. Not real. The script says Escalade must catch Town Car.
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Should we start debating the merits of a bus traveling 50 mph over the surface streets of LA and jumping over a missing section of elevated highway now?

 

True, but it still wrecks a perfectly good Town Car for nothing.....something that is not easy to find nowadays.


Well, the OP was (apparently) debating the merits of showing a Suburban running down a Town Car. Same general principle.

 

Good points lol. Can you imagine the number of cars (no doubt mostly fixed up junkers) that are wrecked in just one or two years worth of movies and TV shows.

 

No, it is not good points...not IMO. Vehicles are needlessly wrecked all the time in movies, for nothing else but sheer entertainment, but that does not, IMO, make the practice credible. At least with demolition-derbies, which is another place here vehicles were wrecked, not just for crowd-entertainment, but as a motorsport, otherwise-worthless clunkers, not perfectly-good vehicles, are wrecked as a contest, to see who is the last one running.

Sorry, with all due respect, I just don't see it your way.

 

The Sopranos ran from 1999 to 2007, so it was a lot eaiser to find one when this scene occurred (not sure what season this was from)