Editing Lincoln Motor Company (section)

==Worldwide distribution==
The home market of the Lincoln Motor Company brand is the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Around the world, Ford Motor Company has used Lincoln in various markets as a flagship brand while using the Ford brand across its entire product line for other regions.

===Asia===
In Japan, Lincoln was marketed alongside Ford through 2016, when Ford ended its operations in the country.

In South Korea, the Lincoln product line continues to be offered. Previously excluded from the region, the Lincoln Navigator was introduced to the country for the 2022 model year.

====Australia & New Zealand====
[[Ford Australia]] has never marketed the Lincoln brand; to market vehicles in the premium/luxury segment, variants of Australian-designed and manufactured vehicles were marketed under the Ford brand (the [[Ford Fairlane (Australia)|Ford Fairlane and LTD]]; the [[Ford Fairmont (Australia)|Ford Fairmont]] served a role similar to Mercury) through Australia and New Zealand.

====China====
In the 1990s and 2000s, [[Hongqi (marque)|Hongqi]] (in an effort to develop a successor to the [[Hongqi CA770]] limousine) began production of a license-built variant of the Lincoln Town Car, using [[knock-down kit]]s imported from the United States.<ref name="TruthAboutCars">{{cite news|date=2012-01-05|title=Tycho's Illustrated History Of Chinese Cars: Red Flag's Lincoln Years - The Truth About Cars|language=en-US|work=The Truth About Cars|url=http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/01/panther-love-in-china-red-flag%E2%80%99s-lincoln-years/ |access-date=2018-05-23}}</ref> The Town Car CKD kits received an exterior restyling, fitted with different front fenders, headlamps and taillamps, and a new grille. Along with a standard-wheelbase sedan, three lengths of limousines were produced, along with the Hongqi CA7400 prototype.<ref name="TruthAboutCars"/>

In 2014, Ford Motor Company brought Lincoln to the Chinese market, introducing the brand with the mid-size MKZ sedan and MKC small SUV.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Lincoln Launches in China; Unique Offering for Today's Chinese Luxury Auto Customers|publisher=Lincoln Motor Company|url=http://www.lincoln.com.cn/en/press-release?article=1249097231265 |access-date=June 30, 2015}}</ref> By the end of 2016, Lincoln intended to establish a network of 60 dealerships in 50 cities, selling the MKZ, Continental, MKC, MKX, and Navigator.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Lincoln Unveils Three All-New Vehicles at Auto Shanghai 2015|publisher=Lincoln Motor Company|url=http://www.lincoln.com.cn/en/press-release?article=1249154316963|access-date=June 30, 2015}}</ref> 2016 sales increased 180% over the previous year, with Lincoln planning to produce vehicles in China by 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ford-motor-lincoln-idUSKBN16K0EB |title=Ford's Lincoln plans to produce luxury SUV in China by late 2019|date=March 13, 2017|access-date=April 30, 2018|work=Reuters}}</ref> To attract Chinese consumers, Lincoln introduced "The Lincoln Way", a car purchase and ownership model which provides highly personalized services to customers.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Lincoln Opens First Stores in China and Unveils 'The Lincoln Way' |date=November 6, 2014 |publisher=Lincoln Motor Company|url=https://media.lincoln.com/content/lincolnmedia/lna/us/en/news/2014/11/06/lincoln-opens-first-stores-in-china.html |access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref>

On March 29, 2020, the first Lincoln made in China (a Lincoln Corsair) was produced by [[Changan Ford|Chang'an Ford]] at its facility in Chongqing.<ref>{{cite web|title=林肯品牌首款国产车型下线--人民网汽车--人民网 |url=http://auto.people.com.cn/n1/2020/0401/c1005-31657136.html |access-date=2020-04-16 |website=auto.people.com.cn}}</ref> In 2022, a new [[Lincoln Zephyr (China)|Zephyr]] sedan built only for the Chinese market replaced the discontinued MKZ.

===Europe===
[[Ford of Europe]] does not market the Lincoln brand. To compete against luxury-brand automobiles, the Italian coachbuilder [[Vignale]] (acquired by Ford in 1973) is marketed by Ford of Europe as a sub-brand as the highest trim of the Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, Kuga, Edge, and S-Max.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vignale.ford.co.uk/en-GB/ |title=Ford Vignale - Ford GB |work=ford.co.uk |access-date=November 20, 2016}}</ref>

===Middle East===
Ford markets the Lincoln brand in several Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain.