The Lincoln Blackwood Was an Ultra-Quirky Luxury Truck Failure

this is a 2002 lincoln blackwood and i have been obsessed with this truck for years but finding one to review has been absolutely impossible until now get ready folks because today i'm going to review one of the strangest and most interesting pickup trucks ever made [Music] before i get started big news this blackwood is currently live for sale being auctioned on cars and bids my enthusiast car auction website this is a huge deal if you like me have been obsessed with the blackwood for basically 20 years since it came out this is your chance these almost never come up for sale because they didn't really sell that many of them in the first place and it's very hard to find a nice one like this but you can buy this blackwood on cars and bids so once you finish watching this video scroll to the description click the link and head over to the live auction for this blackwood right now where you can bid on and win and buy a lincoln blackwood only on cars and bids so let's talk blackwood back in the early 2000s ford did some market research and they realized that many owners of the ford f-150 pickup also had a luxury car in the garage they had a lincoln or a cadillac sitting next to the workhorse pickup truck and so they had an epiphany and back then when an american automaker had an epiphany yes there were some bad ideas from the american automakers during this period and some failures but this might just be the worst of all the blackwood came out for the 2002 model year and was supposed to be a luxury version of the ford f-150 it sold so poorly that it was canceled after the 2003 model year meaning that this truck made it just two years on sale but they were two glorious years of the quirkiest truck on the market and you're wondering why there are lines on the bed aren't you well today you're going to find out because i am finally reviewing a lincoln blackwood first i'm going to take you on a tour of this truck and show you all the quirks and features of the quirkiest modern pickup truck then i'm going to get it out on the road and drive it and then i will give a dug score to the lincoln blackwood i have been waiting for this moment for so long all right i'm going to start the quirks and features of the blackwood by discussing these lines in the bed and when you get closer you can see they're not just silver lines but also wood back here you have wood trim on the outside of this truck in between these silver lines and it goes all the way around the side and the back and on to the other side basically the entire bed of this truck is lined with silver and wood now it's worth noting that this is not real wood when the blackwood was first shown as a concept car it did have real wood trim in this location but actual wood doesn't hold up all that well to sun and elements and years on the road and so the real thing has sort of a fake wood intended to look real but you're probably wondering why did it have any wood back here at all what sense does it make putting wood on the outside of the bed of this truck and i think they did that because they were intending to evoke like a grand luxury car with beautiful wood trim hence the silver lining and the name blackwood intended to evoke a luxury car but why are they trying to use a truck to to note a luxury car this is where the blackwood is misunderstood the blackwood was one of the very first luxury pickup trucks and like i said ford figured out that a lot of their f-150 owners also had a luxury car but what's misunderstood is the blackwood wasn't intended to replace the f-150 in the garage it was supposed to replace the car in the garage instead of a town car or a cadillac you were supposed to get a blackwood then you would have your workhorse truck and you wouldn't have to get a sedan for your other car you could get a truck that was like a sedan and for that reason the blackwood had a trunk yes that's right you can see the trunk is rising up automatically this tonneau cover instead of an open bed like a pickup this thing had a trunk now let me show you how this works on the key fob you can see lock unlock then below that a picture of a pickup truck and a picture of a pickup truck with its trunk open you press the trunk open button and then the trunk opens up like i just showed you and then it's in this position and then you have access to the trunk of your lincoln blackwood again think of this like a truck version of a luxury sedan and it starts to make a little bit more sense further proof of that is what's inside the trunk now to open the tailgate you don't have some latch you pull it and it slams down on the bumper and it's really heavy instead you open it up with a little latch here one half of the tailgate and then there's another little latch you open up the other half of the tailgate very classy very luxurious two little doors that open up very easily and very quietly but anyway once the doors are open you see in here the trunk of this car the bed is fully carpeted and on the side you have aluminum trim basically going the entire way around the side and the front of this bed clearly this is not your traditional pickup truck bed again think of this as a luxury sedan that happens to be a truck with a giant trunk in the back where you can store all your golf clubs and everyone else's too now some interesting quirks in this bed slash trunk one is that there are led lights along the bottom you can see on either side you have led lights obviously when the bed was open at night you would have these lights on and then you could see what was in here which is a nice classy touch you also have these little storage compartments on the side of the bed to open them up you press this little button in the center and then it pops out and you twist it and then you can open up the storage compartment a very classy luxurious little compartment much different from what you'd get in the traditional pickup truck bed and a few other interesting items in this giant truck bed trunk situation for one there is an emergency latch to get out of here if someone tries to kidnap you in their black wood you pull on this latch and then you can climb out and you can see that the graphic even illustrates you climbing out of the back of a truck not out of the back of a regular sedan's trunk so they have a special latch just for the blackwood which is kind of a cool feature additionally you have cargo tie-downs back here like you do in a lot of truck beds and some car trunks here you have one at each corner and they are chrome they are nice classy cargo tie-downs again allowing you to put whatever you want back here and use this like a giant cargo area finally another important component to this cargo area this thing the tunnel cover was not intended to be removed you were not supposed to take it off it was not designed that way it was not meant for easy removal so you bought this truck you did not get an open bed and you were not to take off the tonneau cover it was difficult to do and it was not intended for you to do it you just had a giant trunk bed in the back of your blackwood again think of it like a luxury sedan that's a truck but next up still not done back here i'm gonna move on to closing up the cargo area in the blackwood first off these doors you can see they have little storage pockets inside them both the left and the right door back here have a little storage pocket in case you want to put a smaller item in the cargo area and you don't want it rolling around that's a nifty little trick but anyway when you want to close up the cargo area first you close the door on the left then you close the door on the right again a lot more luxurious than a regular tailgate which is very inelegant and it also reveals one of the issues with this truck blackwood spelled across the back has nine letters and so the k had to be centered except the seam for the doors is centered so the word blackwood is always perpetually off-center in this truck which to me is kind of a nice metaphor for the way that this truck went down in terms of production sales and desirability it was just not exactly all that well executed but anyway with the tailgate closed you can then press the key fob button with the pickup truck on it with the trunk not open that will close the tonneau cover as you can see here it closes right up automatically it latches and then your giant lincoln blackwood trunk is closed power operated now it's worth noting that the power operation of this tonneau cover was a huge problem for ford when this truck was in development so much that ford got into a fight with the supplier of the mechanism that powered the tonneau cover and ford froze their contracts with that supplier they didn't do any new business with them until they could figure out making this tonneau cover worked as they had promised eventually they did get it to work but they failed constantly and it's very difficult these days to find a blackwood with a working tonneau cover although as you can see this one's works perfectly so you may be wondering what do you do if your tonneau cover fails there's no latch back here to get into the trunk so are you just screwed and the answer is fishing wire what a lot of blackwood owners do is tie some fishing wire to the emergency trunk release which i showed you earlier and let it sort of dangle outside the tailgate and then to get back here you pull on the fishing wire and it opens the tunnel cover not exactly the lavish luxury that lincoln envisioned when they created this truck now interestingly there is another way into the tonneau cover an emergency way to access it you get under the truck and you can see behind the rear wheel there's this little cap you pull off the cap and there is a keyhole and from there you stick the key in twist it and you can access an emergency lever to open up the tonneau cover but in order to do that you have to climb under the truck and get dirty every time ford was hoping these tonneau covers wouldn't break and you wouldn't have to do that but they do break often except here so the lincoln blackwood was a pickup truck without a pickup truck bed that was one of the issues that lincoln had when trying to sell this to customers another issue was that they only built these with two-wheel drive all blackwoods were rear-wheel drive now again this makes sense if you think of the blackwood as like a sedan that happens to be a truck but to buyers they were confused they didn't understand why you had this really nice luxury pickup truck that cost all this money and you couldn't get a four-wheel drive version obviously these days in the age of luxury trucks we look back and think that was a stupid decision but this was one of the first luxury trucks lincoln just didn't know how customers would use it and they truly thought it would replace sedans so they would want rear-wheel drive like luxury sedans were at the time now another issue with this truck was the payload capacity was only 1200 pounds meaning if you had four adults riding in the truck all about 225 pounds you were then only 300 pounds short of the total payload capacity so you couldn't fill the truck with both people and stuff or else you would go over the payload capacity so the blackwood was a truck that didn't have a lot of truck stuff and that was a big problem with selling these although it is worth noting it did have a 5.4 liter v8 about 300 horsepower and this one has a towing package it can tow almost 9 000 pounds those are pretty good numbers but none of that stuff was the blackwood's biggest barrier to success the main reason this truck was a monumental failure was the price tag which started around fifty three thousand dollars back in o2 or the equivalent of just under eighty thousand dollars in today's money for a dressed up f-150 with two-wheel drive and a truck bed that you couldn't use it was a lot of money to ask people to pay as a result lincoln had forecasted they would sell 10 to 15 000 of these every year instead they sold about 3 300 of them over a two model year span and then it was killed but speaking of price tag the blackwood had only one option and that was a navigation system which went right here in the center console if you didn't get the navigation system you had like a little storage area here and a cigarette lighter if you did you had this glorious incredibly terribly awful horrible to use navigation system so let's go through it okay so you turn on this navigation system and it says lincoln american luxury but you quickly come to question this slogan once you attempt to do anything with this navigation system okay so you can see there are only five buttons and then there's also a dial so that sets the stage let's start by entering a destination this was a very difficult process you first had to enter the country which when you did that the only option was the united states so i have no idea why they made you do that but then you would enter a city and because this isn't a touch screen and it only has five buttons you had to go letter by letter using the little dial to enter each individual letter of the city name where you wanted directions to take you one by one each letter had to be selected so just entering a city took like three minutes then you had to enter the street name where you wanted to go which was even more difficult because there are even more street names and so again letter by letter each individual letter one by one selecting from them to choose what city and what street name and from there you could also enter the street number but by then you had spent like six minutes just trying to enter the city and street name and country where you were going and so you were already kind of getting fed up with the whole thing but anyway here you can see the map in this navigation system and it is tremendously old-school and makes this truck look hilariously dated just laughably laughably so although it is accurate worth pointing out now you can't easily zoom with this map you would think zoom would be just turning the dial and then it zooms but it doesn't work like that instead you had to push the dial for function and then scroll down to scale and then from there you could zoom although it wouldn't show you a preview of the zoom you were selecting you just had to select it and hope for the very best and you can see once you select a new zoom it takes an incredibly long time to actually load what you have selected but there it is and now your map is showing a slightly different zoom level and if you want it to be zoomed a little differently sorry you got to go function again then scale then resume they didn't make it easy and that was true of all of the controls really none of them were easy for instance there is no back button here these five buttons none of them are back which means every single screen you entered you couldn't easily go back you had to scroll all the way over to return which was in the furthest possible place from where you start each screen on every single screen then you'd click return and only then could you go back and this was even true with navigation destination entry if you wanted to go back you had to scroll first through all of the letters every single one and only then can you get to return to go back to the previous screen and another wonderful feature of this laughably outdated navigation system there is a little item for emergency so if you're having an emergency you would scroll all the way over using a little dial to emergency and then press emergency and then you have your coordinates displayed down to the exact degree and minute of latitude and longitude so even though this is a navigation system that knows what street you're on it doesn't tell you that so if you have some sort of problem you call the police and you can give them your coordinates but not the street name and number very helpful emergency function in this system but probably the most hilarious thing about this system was you could change the volume of the voice that told you the directions and where to go to do that you press the volume button they don't have a back button they have one for volume you press the volume button and then you can use the dial to adjust the voice and when you do that well take a listen louder louder louder softer softer softer softer louder louder softer softer softer ah yes softer softer softer what a wonderful thing to program the female voice in the navigation system to say lincoln really knew how to class it up inside the black hood except in reality they didn't and one of the other big problems with this truck at this price point was the interior quality in here it just wasn't really all that nice everything in this truck was straight out of a ford just classed up a little bit you had a ford steering wheel for instance same wheel and a lot of ford products you had window switches right out of a four you had the door handle inside straight out of a ford plastic didn't look or feel all that nice this column shifter right out of a ford the gauge cluster it was all ford parts the center control stack with the radio the climate vents it was all ford and again that was a big thing to ask people to pay almost 80 grand for mostly ford stuff but with that said they did try to class it up in here a little bit you had some wood trim for instance around the interior although not very much of it and it is clearly fake it didn't say blackwood over on the passenger side of the dashboard so that helped things a little bit and it also said lincoln on the door sill although in kind of an odd position it wasn't on the top of the sail like every other car instead it was on sort of the riser it said lincoln facing out when you got in the car which in itself is kind of an interesting quirk but it was intended to make the interior a little bit classier now moving on this was a quirky truck and so as you can imagine the interior had quite a few interesting quirks probably the most ridiculous is the interior switch that would open up the tonneau cover over the bed in back you had a switch on the ceiling that did that exact thing you can see it here and then you had another one like three inches over so there was one switch for the driver and just in case the passenger couldn't reach all the way over to the driver's switch the passenger had their own switch as well so two separate switches that do the exact same thing mounted truly two inches apart what exactly were they thinking here's my theory in the theory of the owner of this truck the lincoln navigator had this exact same center console panel with these buttons and switches but in the navigator these little switches on the sides would open the vent windows one for the left vent window and one for the right vent window well the blackwood doesn't have vent windows and they didn't want to put a very obvious blank switch in this spot so they just made those two switches do the exact same thing what a wonderful quirk of the blackwood and speaking of blackwood interior quirks i draw your attention to the cup holders which are in the center here you can see you have cup holders or it says remove for large cup you can pull out the cup holder if you want an even larger cup holder but those aren't your only cup holder options in here you also have some behind this panel it says push you press it and some smaller cup holders open one of these is actually the ash tray by getting the navigation system you get rid of the normal ashtray location so instead they gave you a little ashtray within the cup holder you can remove that and use it for cups although soft cups only in this spot you weren't supposed to put any heavy cups here or it might spill doesn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence in these cup holders and the quirks and features of this interior only continue go to the steering wheel and you have controls for the climate control you can change the temperature or the fan speed on the steering wheel i love this feature and i have no idea why cars got rid of this easy thumb access controls to change the climate control it makes so much sense to have that on the steering wheel and i love to see that that is a wonderful feature another nice feature in this truck in the center you have this button this is parking sensors this truck had parking sensors back in 2002 that was a really big deal not too many vehicles had it especially at this price point but this truck did it also had power adjustable pedals you see this switch to the left of the steering wheel you can press that and then the pedals move forward or backwards to make it easier for taller or shorter drivers to share the truck you can move the pedals without moving the whole seat steering wheel situation that is a nice touch and this truck also had some nice touches when it came to the mirrors this little switch here will fold in the mirrors automatically this was a common feature in european cars but it was rare in american ones and it's surprising to see it here but it had power folding mirrors the lincoln blackwood the mirrors were also heated and they told you that with this lovely script on the outside that said heated which looks like the ford cursive font on the blue oval logo here used to describe the fact that the mirrors were heated so you can see just how luxurious your mirrors are one other interesting mirror feature you can see a turn signal mounted on the outside of the mirror again common on european cars although not that much in the early 2000s rare to see it anywhere but the blackwood had this outside mirror-mounted turn signal kind of foretelling cars having this in the future an interesting quirk and speaking of the luxury features in the blackwood take a look next to the seats you can see there are heated and air conditioned seats and this isn't like modern cooled seats where it just sort of cools the surface of the seat there was an actual system in here that like air conditioned the seat to try to cool it off and you can adjust this switch to heat or ac and then you adjust this dial to the level of heat or air conditioned seats that you want air conditioned seats very very uncommon feature back in 2002 but the luxury lincoln blackwood had them although it didn't have full power seats you can see the manual lever on the side to adjust the backrest ford could give you an air conditioned seat with five different levels of air conditioning but they couldn't give you a power seat that was just too far for ford to manage kind of ridiculous to see that anyway next we move on to the center console which is very large in this vehicle and it had to be because it contained a lot of stuff you open it up and you can see the slot to insert the navigation disks that was the navigation system then you also have a cd changer in here to play cds through the stereo so that took up a lot of room in the center console but there was still room for some extra stuff like for instance the owner's literature in here in this leather bound lincoln owner's manual pouch one item that's interesting is the blackwood quick reference guide you open that up and the first page says from the elegantly sculpted exterior styling to the thoughtfully detailed amenities every lincoln seeks to lavish you in true american luxury yes the true american luxury of having a manual back rest in your 80 000 truck also in their sharing space with those slots for the navigation disk and the cd discs is this keyhole this keyhole lets you lock out the tonneau cover so if you lock it then the tonneau cannot be open so you turn this car over to a valet that's locked and then they won't be able to open the tunnel using these little switches on the ceiling or the key fob itself because it has been manually locked and can't be opened and next up we move on to the back seat of the black one you can see there are only two seats back here two individual bucket seats plus a center console in the middle that's probably because they were afraid of going over the payload limit because if you had three seats back here five total seats then all you would need are five adults weighing 240 pounds and then you are over the payload capacity of this truck let alone whatever you have in the back so they probably figured four seats was a better way to go to avoid that problem now i want to start back here with the door panel i love this door panel everything is just straight out of a ford pickup it looks cheap it is not all that nice except the little area around the window switch they have this fake wood that little tiny area is meant to emphasize the luxury of the blackwood one tiny piece of plastic fake wood on our otherwise plastic ford door panel now some interesting quirks back here one is this little storage pocket on the back of the front seat you can see it's this very beautiful leather stitched piece with this aluminum latch it's actually a magnet you open it up and you can place important documents in there like you'd expect from a luxury vehicle there's also hidden storage back here you can fold the rear seat forward and then that reveals this little hidden storage compartment you have one of these compartments behind both rear seats and that allows you to store stuff that you don't expect anyone will ever find because you really have to know the blackwood to know that compartment is there and frankly nobody knows the blackwood next up moving on to the center console back here it is a very large armrest and it's down position but you lift it up and you can see it is a really huge center console you have a very deep storage area here and then you have another little smaller compartment on top if you want to use it a lot of center console storage space back here now in the front part of this center console you have cupholders where you can of course put cups but if you want more cup holders look at the back of the front center console this little panel opens up and you can pull it open and then fold out two additional cup holders for four total cup holders in back even though there are only two seats back here i guess they thought the people riding in this vehicle would really have a lot of drinks now speaking of the back of that front center console on the very bottom you have a little power outlet which is a nice feature in the back seat of a car in 2002. you did not see that all that often but here it is in the blackwood you also have some controls back here and this would control music or the rear seat climate control you cannot control the rear temperature back here strangely enough but you can control the fan speed and where the air comes out like the location of the air and then you just have to ask the front passengers nicely to give you the temperature that you want and next up we move on to the outside of the blackwood where there was a lot of chrome trim and i mean a lot of chrome trim to really emphasize how much more luxurious this was than the standard f-150 you can see some of the more ridiculous chrome items here like this strip right below the windows that is how you know luxury a chrome strip below the window same deal on the door handles they're just the regular f-150 door handles but with chrome on top again a sure sign of luxury also the mirror caps of course chrome if you want to have a true luxury vehicle it must have chrome mirror caps but probably the most ridiculous chromed item is the fuel door you can see right here again just a regular f-150 fuel door except chromed because they felt that that would make the truck seem more luxurious the problem is that no one really bought it no one saw all this chrome stuff and said yes this is a true luxury vehicle and it wasn't helped by the fact that the black wood on the outside really did look like a two-wheel drive f-150 supercrew it pretty much had the exact same lines the same appearance and it looked like an f-150 the only real changes aside from chrome touches and the fake wood on the bed you had lincoln-specific wheels on this truck which helped the look a little bit it helped it get a little classier and the front end of this truck was pretty much lifted entirely off the navigator between the headlights the grille all that stuff it did help make it lincolnier but it wasn't enough to disguise the fact that this was a f-150 that they wanted 80 grand for that was never really gonna happen but anyway next up we move under the hood in the blackwood and then you can see this truck's engine now the one thing this truck did have going for it was a great engine 5.4 liter v8 that was the biggest v8 you could get in the f-150 at the time it had about 300 horsepower in the blackwood which was a really healthy number for a truck back then and so the powertrain made it kind of a workhorse these were also pretty reliable engines they're well known for longevity compared to like the cadillac north star of the time which you know doesn't really have that reputation so anyway it was a pretty good engine in the blackwood even if the rest of the stuff about this truck was pretty questionable and so those are the quirks and features of the lincoln blackwood now it's time to get it out on the road and see how it drives all right driving the lincoln blackwood i have wanted to do this for so long and i am so thrilled that i am finally able to before i get into driving experience a little conversation about market position um this came out o2 i think the cadillac escalade pickup called the ext came out the next year the year after and the cadillac sold a lot better and i think what cadillac realized that lincoln didn't was people wanted a luxury truck but they didn't want to replace a sedan they wanted it to be like an even more in-your-face version of an suv like yeah i got a cool pickup and it's a cadillac and so the escalade ext sold really well and it went through two generations actually whereas the blackwood pretty much lasted only one model year and part of another and driving this truck now i mean you can see they just didn't quite get the concept of what would eventually become the popular luxury truck the raptor the denali the escalade xt they all kind of reached and showed people how cool it was this was too understated it was too car-like frankly um they were trying to mimic a luxury sedan and they just didn't know what the luxury truck market would look like and this was a guess and it turned out to be the wrong one on the road it actually is better than you might expect it's better than i was expecting um it still drives like a truck it's not like they've done much to affect that but what's nice about it is that it's powerful it has a good uh engine power frankly this engine was a little lethargic in the original navigator which i've reviewed but it's fine in this truck which is probably a little lighter and you know the interior's relatively nice it's just not very nice it would have been great for the 90s but 2002 a lot of people looked at this and were probably pretty disappointed at the price point but the real issue the truck had was i mean it was not very capable and it was not very showy and so lincoln was trying to sell you on like this true like lavish luxury like it was a very nice truck with all these features and it does have some really amazing ones but what it didn't have was what people wanted at this price point they want it to show off it doesn't like drive luxuriously the steering has a lot of play in it um it's not really a very luxurious or or lavish or nice vehicle frankly to drive so even though they were trying to sell you a suv or truck that was a car it drove like a truck but it didn't have the capabilities of one it really is interesting though this is a very interesting vehicle so like i said lincoln was planning to sell like 10 000 of these a year maybe 15 000. they ended up selling about three thousand they canceled the truck in the first model year they realized what was going to happen and they had built some of three so they sold them but that was it i mean the truck was instantly an absolute disaster dealers were desperate to get rid of them no one wanted to buy it and these days you really don't see him anymore and then that toenail cover was constantly breaking which was an issue that ford was dealing with throughout the truck's entire warranty period and it was it was an attempt i love these vehicles that are like early attempts at something that became big what ended up happening was ford then created another lincoln pickup truck called the mark lt which came out no 6. and it had the capability and it had the toughness and it would have been okay except the recession came in um and they they had to cancel that and frankly even that wasn't quite removed enough from the f-150 but still it was their second effort and after that they just realized people don't want a truck from lincoln they want a truck from ford ford makes trucks like that's where they want their trucks and then they just started creating luxury trim levels of mainstream brand trucks and that has been the way that most automakers have addressed this and now luxury trucks are really really popular they just don't have luxury brand names you won't have a lincoln truck or a cadillac truck or a chrysler truck people want their trucks to come from the truck brands overall i mean looking at this car it is unbelievably quirky incredibly rare and thus i have always wanted to review it i am so glad i can't believe i'm sitting in a lincoln blackwood how amazing and so that's the lincoln blackwood this truck is pretty hilarious frankly it was a colossal failure but i have always had a soft spot for these and i get really excited when i see them on the road very very rarely this is an interesting piece of pickup truck history and i am thrilled that i had the chance to finally review a blackwood anyway now it's time to give the blackwood a doug score starting with the weekend categories and styling the blackwood is uh interesting and i think i'm being charitable with a four out of ten acceleration it's pretty slow and it gets a 1 out of 10. handling is normal for a 2000s truck but not great otherwise a bit unsettled and it gets a 2 out of 10. fun factor is also pretty low it's neither fast nor thrilling nor off-road capable and it gets a 2 out of 10. finally cool factor though and this is higher these are becoming cooler and cooler as people start to recognize how oddball and strange it was and i would absolutely check out one of these at cars and coffee before another gt3 with stitching and it gets a 5 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 14 out of 50. next up are the daily categories and features it has decent equipment and it gets a 3 out of 10. comfort is ok a bit above average and it gets a 6 out of 10. quality is fine these are known to be reliable but materials could be better and it gets a 6 out of 10. practicality is average 4 seats but a huge trunk it gets the same practicality score as a sedan and it earns a 5 out of 10. finally value these sell for 10 to 20 000 so they're reasonably affordable considering how interesting they are they're also acceptably capable and reliable as trucks for that price point so it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 26 out of 50. added up in the doug score is 40 out of 100 which places it here against other relevant vehicles and weird trucks i've reviewed the closest actually decent comparison here is with the 99 lincoln navigator which was lincoln's suv at the same time as the blackwood was being made the navigator wins by a few points mainly because it's more practical but me i'd rather have the blackwood as it's one of my favorite weird cars from the modern era [Music] the payload capacity was only twelve hundred

Channel: Doug DeMuro

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Length: 34min 46sec (2086 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/PoorReadingReedditor]

Poor Ford Flex :-(

Really the ugly step child is the Ford Freestyle/Taurus-X

[u/yatlvcar]

The ultimate quirk will be the female voice in GPS saying softer, softer

[u/RhinestoneTaco]

A 2002 Blackwood just sold on BaT for $25,500.

[u/ChickenPotPi]

Talks about wanting to review this exact model in mordougdemuro and the posts it two weeks later........ I'm on to you /u/doug-demuro

[u/pryan886]

He caught his white whale, the Lincoln Blackwood. It’s a hilarious failure of automotive design, and it can be yours on Cars & Bids.

[u/CallMeAPleb]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen Doug so excited

[u/MicBarry21]

Mark LT better be next on the agenda

edit: woohoo first Doug reply!

[u/Sagan_kerman]

The madman did it, he managed to complain about Porsche owner’s obsession with stitching in a video about a Lincoln Blackwood.

[u/jackschevelle]

Truck buyers don't want a $65k "luxury" truck. They want a $65k King Ranch / Platinum / High Country / Limited big horn "work" truck.

The false vanity of the truck world is weird.