Looking for big things from small SUV Lincoln

Is a small SUV drum which must sort large sums of Lincoln as a fight trying to revive sales of the luxury brand?

Small SUV at a time Lincoln has unveiled the new MKC, when "small utility vehicles" have become the hottest selling models in the luxury-car market.

"Don't people of the people who buy this car want, to buy their first luxury car. Many of them are people trading down and good fuel economy, features and content are what they want. And they want an affordable price, "said Farley.

Lincoln, who still looking for traction

Since Lincoln, Farley has patience as he and other executives, put a plan for the image of the brand that is tired of the takeover of the brand last year change preached.

The first model, the MKZ is a sedan with a much more refined styling. Despite constant marketing and advertising so far rather modest sales MKZ; only 26.684 by the MKZ were sold this year.

Farley says, however, that he was not concerned.

"And we are really pleased that we see our hybrid mix is over 30%, which we frankly didn't expect the price on the MKZ to almost $6,000." "The types of metrics are we are satisfied, which lead us to believe that we are on the right track."

For the Lincoln brand are sales by 3 percent this year while the luxury-car market as a whole is almost 11 per cent.

Farley says slowly but sure Lincoln changed perceptions of luxury buyers.

"It is of course, to see people, to say really big sales growth that Lincoln is not back and grows," Farley said. "It needs to check time for people, you and that will come."

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US safety regulators open probe of VW SUVs for lighting problem

DETROIT, Nov 8 Reuters)-U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into an estimated 61,000 VW Tiguan SUVs in the United States after receiving complaints about the loss of outdoor lighting.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that it may disrupt the preliminary assessment in the compact SUVs from model years 2009-2011 to 26 complaints from consumers about the partial or complete loss of exterior lighting, including headlights, brake lights and turn indicators, due to a heat damaged electrical backup open.

"The reports indicate that the problem in the course of time with additional outdoor lighting progression of the problem worsens malfunction" according to the NHTSA document. "Find most complaints report an overheated and melted the inadequate hood fuse fuse box." The overheated 30-ampere fuse protects including several outdoor lighting circuits".

There were no accidents or injuries in connection with the issue according to NHTSA document published online. A Volkswagen AG spokeswoman said that the German automaker is working with investigation of the Agency.

A preliminary assessment is the first step in a process that may result in a callback regulators should determine that a manufacturer needs to fix a security problem.

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