Towing With Late Model Town Car (2007)

[wolf_walker]

The TSB seems to indicate directly that it was for fuel economy.

https://www.ford-cruising.hu/miscimages/0219.pdf

 

[Action]

Likely it is.
However, at no detriment of engine service life as long as the engine is well maintained.

I have no idea of the savings - And likely I will get some push back for this.
As long as the engine is well maintained and lasts for say 250,000 miles does it matter?
Say the engine gets 1/8 of a mile to the gallon over only 150,000 and the consumer buys 75 gallons less over that period.
Means almost nothing for the consumer
Times the hundreds of millions of vehicles on the road in the US
Saves a lot of fuel!
I would much rather do that then drive a battery car.
(The math may not be exact)

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[wolf_walker]

The theory is it had to do with the CAFE standards, an average of mpg across all the models a manufacturer sold.
Not a big difference to a single car case, more so across a full model line.
Or so I've been told.
If I cared about mpg I wouldn't drive a Town Car

 

[jkeaton]

Full send.

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If I cared about mpg I wouldn't drive a Town Car

I am in the same "boat".
Never owned a Town Car. However I always drove personal luxury cars as a daily driver. (Mark Series) All of my hobby cars that are not Mark Series are full sized FLM products. (I have 2 other non-Lincoln hobby cars)

When the Mark Series was discontinued I had a mid-life crisis. I dove my Mark VIII to over 200,000 miles before I could figure out what I wanted to do. I switched to full sized SUVs.

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