2004 Lincoln Mark X prototype to be auctioned

[TonyC]

Right, let's shut down the GPS and try to get back on the path of the title topic. Anybody have updates on who owns this car (the Mark X concept) now, and how much of an advance on his rich aunt's will he had to take to get it?

---Tony

[papawayne]

I think it died. Tony, when we picked up the GPS and went for a ride with no understanding as to where we were headed, but it was a fun ride regardless of where the GPS was taking us. I think the same thing happened to the poor fellow who was asking about Blackwood Springs and the GPS took us to a cemetery. Technically. If I'm going home from Northern Maine, the GPS puts me on a dirt road that no one would take unless they had never looked at a map. Wayne

[Mike]

Sounds like a GM GPS which recently directed me to drive into a transit system and another time through a field in the middle of nowhere.

[frasern]

Driving around here with a gps, on the grid roads, is hilarious. Siri, or whoever, keeps telling me to get back on a road. And if I am on a road, she wants me to drive into a lake!

[papawayne]

Driving through a field is a thing. Our GPS showed that thing and it meant that a new road had been created that the GPS didn't know about. Don't ever go anywhere without a map. A map has saved us from some serious disasters, especially in New York State. The possibilities give this old man the creeps. All in all, though, having a GPS has also saved our sanity on several occasions. Sorry, Tony, I don't know who got the Mark X concept car. Wayne

[Mike]

Someone stuck one of those blind spot mirrors on it so maybe it has been driven a bit.