> The universe where in the early 1990s, my grandparents and their friends existed, had the opportunity to buy more sophisticated (complicated) foreign vehicles

> The universe where in the early 1990s, my grandparents and their friends existed, had the opportunity to buy more sophisticated (complicated) foreign vehicles, and did not. They're enormous, hard to park, and by no means performance vehicles. But I've ridden in exactly one Lincoln Town Car, and let me tell you, it was a dream. It's not a sexy car. It's not a performance vehicle (in standard civilian models). It's ridiculous for one person. But if you need to transport four adults in absolute comfort and luxury, you couldn't do it better with anything else that was around at the time except maybe a Lexus LS or Mercedes S class.