Numbers first, because with the Lincoln Zephyr they are the story: Gasoline engine, 243 hp. Lincoln built from 2022, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Daniel Prochilo drew it.
Where it came from
The Lincoln Z, previously known as the Lincoln Zephyr, is a mid-size luxury sedan produced since 2022 by Changan Ford, a joint venture between Chinese automaker Changan Automobile and American automaker Ford Motor Company, and sold by Lincoln Motor Company, a subsidiary of Ford.
Under the skin
Power comes from Gasoline engine; 243 hp is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 2054 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 118 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. It shifts through a 8-speed automatic transmission / automatic / HF55 Continuously_variable_transmission#Hybrid_electric / eCVT (hybrid). The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2930 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Lincoln MKZ (China) / Lincoln Continental (China); assembly was at Chongqing (Changan Ford), China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Z, the Porsche Taycan, the BMW XM — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Lincoln catalogue sit the Lincoln First Call and the Lincoln Funeral Car.