Stretch Fusion Hybrid the Eco Answer to Lincoln Town Cars | GreenCar.com.
Go to just about any American airport and you will see many Lincoln Town Cars, mostly black, picking up and dropping off passengers. Now, these upscale taxis have a much more environmentally-friendly competitor – the Royale Hybrid Electric Livery Vehicle (HELV). Royale Limousines, a Cabot Coach Builders Company in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is a Certified Lincoln Qualified Vehicle Modifier and Cadillac Master Coachbuilder. Besides building many stretch limousines and limo buses, starting in 1998 it also added six inches to many Lincoln Town Cars, thus creating the predecessor to the now factory-built Town Car Executive L.
The new HELV is basically a stretched Ford CD338 platform so it’s available now in hybrid Ford Fusion form or as a Mercury Milan version next spring. Royale has developed a method to cut the hybrid cars in half and then stretch overall length and wheelbase by six inches. The company also adds many luxury upgrades.
