A mere months following the announcement Ford made about planning to reduce the number of Lincoln dealerships in metropolitan areas, the company has stuck to its word by shutting down 20% of their dealerships. Why would Ford do this, you ask? Ford is in the midst of rebranding the Lincoln name, and they are presenting dealerships an ultimatum: Lincoln dealers can either upgrade their facilities by August or risk getting the axe.

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Safety comes first with Ford and now they are taking the next step in their decade-long initiative to build a sophisticated and detailed computer adult model for crash testing. They've started to build a digital child crash-test dummy. Like the adult version, body parts will be painstakingly replicated to perfection to offer scientists a better understanding of what happens to a child's body when there is an accident. The cutting-edge project involves building…