1987 Lincoln Mark VII LSC

The 1987 LSC began the year with the same 200-hp sequentially injected 5.0 used in 1986; UPI's July 14, 1987 report on the upcoming 1988 LSC confirms the 1987 engine as the 200-hp version and gives its EPA rating as 17 mpg city and 27 highway. Later in the model year, the Lincoln Mark VII Club, Wikipedia, and Old Car Memories all report a running change to a 225-hp high-output engine on some LSCs, but no Ford document confirming the change's date or the number of cars affected was found, so this record carries the 225-hp engine as reported rather than dated or counted. The three secondary sources agree with each other on the fact of the change even without a factory document, which is treated here as corroboration among enthusiast and club sources rather than as primary confirmation.^1,2,3,4

Conceptcarz's own narrative text gives 15,286 Mark VIIs "sold" for 1987 across all versions, with no separate LSC count and no count of how many carried the late 225-hp engine found in an accessible documented source. Wikipedia's matching total traces to the same club-sourced lineage rather than an independent factory count, so this record treats 15,286 as a single reported figure.^5,3

A period Lincoln portfolio brochure independently confirms the LSC's engine distinction: its own feature chart lists the LSC's "high-performance" 5.0 at 200 hp at 4,000 rpm, with tubular exhaust headers, a performance camshaft, and dual exhaust, against 150 hp at 3,200 rpm for the plain Mark VII and Bill Blass; the LSC also carried a standard 3.27:1 axle against 3.08:1 for the other two, with a Traction-Lok axle optional on all three. The reported 225-hp H.O. variant is separately given 300 lb-ft, though no rpm figure for either the 225-hp or the standard 200-hp reading was found beyond the 4,000-rpm peak already cited.⁴

The same brochure lists the LSC's other standard content: a handling suspension, fog lamps, analog instrumentation with a tachometer, articulated sport seats with manual thigh and power bolster/lumbar support, a perforated leather-wrapped steering wheel and gearshift, and P215/65R15 tires on handling cast-aluminum wheels, against the plain Mark VII's P215/70R15 whitewall tires on forged-aluminum wheels (wire-spoke optional). A power moonroof, an automatic-dimming mirror, and an anti-theft alarm were optional across all three models, while puncture-sealant tires were optional only on the plain Mark VII and Bill Blass, not the LSC.

Consumer Guide's own retrospective ranks the 1987 LSC fifth among that year's most expensive American cars at $25,540; this record no longer carries a separate price drawn from J.D. Power's live valuation pages, removed across this project on 2026-09-24 because those pages can change without notice and cannot be independently checked, and any price elsewhere that looks suspiciously exact to that figure may simply be quoting it rather than confirming it independently. Wikipedia separately marks 1987 as the last year for the CB radio option and for vent windows on the Mark VII. No exterior color chart, no interior trim listing beyond the LSC-specific seating details above, and no overall-dimension figures were found in an accessible documented source for the year.^6,3