1998 Lincoln Continental

large luxury car / 4-door sedan

1998 Lincoln Continental 4-door sedan
1997 Lincoln Continental shown

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test

Key

  • G
    Good
  • A
    Acceptable
  • M
    Marginal
  • P
    Poor
  • Superior
  • Advanced
  • Basic

Some ratings use a scale of Poor to Good. Others range from Basic to Superior.

Moderate overlap front: original test

Rating applies to 1995-2002 models

Tested vehicle: 1997 Lincoln Continental 4-door

The Lincoln Continental was redesigned for the 1995 model year.

Overall evaluation
Structure and safety cage
Driver injury measures
Head/neck
Chest
Leg/foot, left
Leg/foot, right
Driver restraints and dummy kinematics

Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.

The dummy's position in relation to the steering wheel and instrument panel after the crash test indicates that the driver's survival space was maintained reasonably well.

The forces on the dummy's left lower leg would be sufficient to break a driver's leg.

Forces on the neck were moderately high as the dummy rebounded, indicating the possibility of injury.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CF97006
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 17
Left (cm) 23
Center (cm) 25
Right (cm) 22
Brake pedal (cm) 23
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 13
Right (cm) 12
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 6
Rearward (cm) 8
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 11

Driver injury measures

Test ID CF97006
Head
HIC-15 248
Peak gs at hard contact no contact
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.6
Extension bending moment (Nm) 40
Maximum Nij 0.32
Chest maximum compression (mm) 33
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 9.0
Femur force - right (kN) 2.3
Knee displacement - left (mm) 5
Knee displacement - right (mm) 0
Maximum tibia index - left 1.61
Maximum tibia index - right 0.84
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 2.6
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 1.5
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 79
Right 50

About the original moderate overlap front test