Start with what the Lincoln Cosmopolitan is: a 2-door coupe / 2-door Capri coupe / 2-door convertible / 4 door sedan with 337 cuin Flathead V8, built from 1948 to 1954, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Eugene T. "Bob" Gregorie.
The background
The Lincoln Cosmopolitan is a full-size luxury car that was sold by Lincoln from the 1949 through the 1954 model year. All Lincolns were manufactured at Lincoln Assembly, Dearborn, Michigan, while some were sent in "knock-down kits" to regional factories at Maywood Assembly, Maywood, California or St. Louis Assembly, St.Louis, Missouri, and assembled locally.
The engineering
The engine is 337 cuin Flathead V8. On the scales it comes to 4400 -. Drive goes through a 3-speed manual / 4-speed Hydra-Matic automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 125.0 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Lincoln line-up the Lincoln Cosmopolitan has a clear place: it replaced the Lincoln EL-series; it handed the line to the Lincoln Premiere (sedan) / Lincoln Capri (coupe); the factory was Lincoln Motor Company Plant, Detroit, Michigan. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche 356, the Citroën 2CV, the Chevrolet Bel Air. Its Lincoln stablemates include the Lincoln First Call and the Lincoln Funeral Car.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Lincoln Cosmopolitan — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.