---
title: "Drive Wire: Powerful New Lincoln Continental Debuts in Detroit"
description: "And we're pretty excited about it."
date: "2016-01-13"
modified: "2016-01-13"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/1658/drive-wire-powerful-new-lincoln-continental-debuts-in-detroit"
categories:
  - "Lincoln News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "continental"
  - "Lincoln"
  - "luxury"
  - "sedan"
---

# Drive Wire: Powerful New Lincoln Continental Debuts in Detroit

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In long-awaited American sedan news, the all-new Lincoln Continental is here, debuting at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this week. There’s two main pieces of news, the first is the engine, a twin-turbo V6 making 400 horsepower and 400 foot-pounds of torque, so the new Continental will move pretty effortlessly, unlike its boat-like predecessor. The other big development is the interior, which is quite striking, plus we hear the 30-way “perfect position” seats are almost offensively comfortable. For both reasons we’re looking forward to our seat time in the first really new Lincoln in a long time.

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