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The Continental Mark II was produced in 1956 and 1957. The production numbers were as follows: 1956: 2,419 units; 1957: 572 units. The hand-assembled vehicles were meant to compete in the ultra-luxury market against the likes of Mercedes Benz. The Continental production company was a division of Ford Motor Company. The 1956 and 1957 continentals models looked the same. They were large cars (much larger than the Thunderbird), and they were unique in their body style. Nowhere on the Mark II vehicles do the names "Ford" or "Lincoln" appear. The Continental Mark II vehicles were costly to produce. Despite their high sticker price, the company lost money on their sales. After the 1957 model year, Ford stopped production of this unique vehicle. The 1958 Lincoln Mark III was a convertible which had the same body style of the other Lincolns. (Interestingly, the 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III stands out as having the all-time longest length of any car model.) By 1959, the Continental Division was disbanded. The 1959 Lincoln Mark IV and the 1960 Lincoln Mark V models were produced by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company. Those 1959 and 1960 models looked like the 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III model. Production of the Lincoln Continental "Marks" was suspended from 1961 through 1968. For the 1969 Model year, Lincoln restarted the Mark line with the Lincoln Continental Mark II.
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