The 2025 Lincoln Navigator represents a complete redesign of Lincoln's flagship vehicle. Built on the robust Ford F-150 platform, this luxury SUV inherits formidable capabilities, including impressive towing and hauling capacity, along with substantial cargo and passenger space. While its inherent luxury is expected, the degree of innovation introduced for 2025 may surprise you. The exterior features a bold new face, highlighted by a distinctive light bar spanning the front, a lighted badge, updated headlights and taillights, and new wheels, all while maintaining its signature large SUV proportions.
Under the hood, the Lincoln Navigator is powered by the largest engine Ford builds: a turbo six-cylinder delivering 440 horsepower, akin to what's found in the high-end Ford Expedition. This power is complemented by a full suite of drive modes, including settings for mud, sand, and snow, enabling off-road adventures. Inside, Lincoln's interiors draw inspiration from furniture design, aiming to create a welcoming and comfortable, at-home feel. Buyers can select from three distinct interior designs, each a full complement of textures, colors, and fabrics.
Innovation truly shines within the cabin, starting with a flat-top steering wheel featuring intuitive touchpads for various controls. Lincoln's advanced Blue Cruise hands-free driving and other driver-assist features are readily accessible. A panoramic "pillar to pillar" screen spans the dashboard, with customizable panels. A large floating center console is adorned with a beautiful crystal-top volume controller for the multimedia system, alongside wireless charging and USB ports. Perhaps the most unique feature is "Rejuvenate Mode," transforming the cabin into a sanctuary with calming visuals, scents, reclining and massaging seats, and a cool breeze from the HVAC system. The availability of massaging second-row captain's chairs and heated/vented third-row seats, even in luxury cars, is nearly unheard of, underscoring the Lincoln Navigator's premium offerings. The vehicle's impressive driving dynamics make it feel responsive and manageable despite its size, ensuring it remains enjoyable to drive.
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In the world of full size luxury SUVs the pressure is on to deliver an advanced experience that will stand up to time. Luxury cars and SUVs are expected to go the distance, after all. But
00:00One of the biggest new car introductions for 2025 is the Lincoln Navigator.
00:12The Lincoln Navigator is the flagship of the Lincoln brand, and it's just been completely redesigned top to bottom.
00:19It's built on the same platform as the Ford F-150, which means it can do everything that that pickup truck can do.
00:27It can tow, it can haul, it has a ton of cargo space for passengers and for anything that you need to bring with you.
00:35It won't surprise you that inside it's incredibly luxurious.
00:39What might surprise you, though, is how innovative it is.
00:44For 2025, Lincoln has added a whole new face and a little bit more of a sculpted exterior.
00:52It still is big and boxy and has those large SUV proportions, but the new front face has a light bar that spans the front and a lighted badge.
01:03New headlights, new taillights, and new wheels.
01:09The Lincoln Navigator is powered by the largest engine that Ford builds.
01:13It's a turbo six-cylinder that delivers 440 horsepower.
01:16It's the same thing that you'll find in the high end of the Ford Expedition.
01:20It also has all the drive modes that you need, so mud, sand, snow, all the off-roading things that you might need to do in this car.
01:29You can, although with this amount of luxury, you might not really want to.
01:32For 2025, Lincoln offers three interiors in the Navigator, and each of the interiors is a full complement design with textures, colors, and fabrics that create an overall feel.
01:50Furniture is the overall design inspiration for Lincoln's interiors, and the idea is to make you feel welcome and comfortable and at home.
01:59Innovation in the Lincoln Navigator starts with the steering wheel.
02:05It's flat on top and bottom.
02:07It has these touchpads here on either side.
02:11You'll see what these touchpads are controlling over here in the screen.
02:16So you can click OK, and then you can see here are your different controls.
02:21These controls up here actually allow you to change the pedal adjustments.
02:26I can extend the pedals out or push them in.
02:30This is also where you're going to set your side mirrors and set the position of the steering wheel.
02:36Over on the left side is where you'll find Lincoln's Blue Cruise, which is hands-free driving, as well as the driver assist features.
02:44And you can also customize your driver view using this touchpad.
02:50The screen that spans the dashboard, they call it a pillar-to-pillar screen.
02:55It's not a touchscreen, but it is customizable to a degree.
03:00The three panels on the right side can be customized using the center screen.
03:04The navigation and driver display over in the center and the left are static.
03:10Those won't change.
03:11And then we have this large floating center console with this really beautiful crystal top volume controller for the multimedia system for the radio.
03:21And then we have our wireless charger there and USB ports and cup holders there right in the center.
03:31The real delight, though, is this rejuvenate mode.
03:35When you have rejuvenate mode on, it will add calming visuals on the multimedia screen and on the control screen here.
03:46Virtual scent will be piped into the cabin.
03:49Your seat will be reclined.
03:50The massager will come on.
03:52And you'll feel a cool breeze from the HVAC system, all designed to create a sanctuary inside the car.
04:01Buyers of the Lincoln Navigator have a choice of a center row bench, center row captain's chairs, or in the black label edition, you can get center row captain's chairs with a console that has controls and center row massaging seats.
04:18That is something that's nearly unheard of, even in luxury cars.
04:22The third row can also be optioned with heated and vented seats.
04:26It's another thing that is nearly unheard of.
04:30After driving this car through California for an entire day, it is impressive.
04:36It feels good.
04:37It's responsive.
04:38It doesn't feel quite as large behind the wheel as it looks like it might be.
04:43And that's a testament to the driving dynamics.
04:46Lincoln has done a really great job in engineering this car to be manageable and responsive and fun to drive.
04:56For the most part in engineering now to be in engineering with the whole town, I'll be definitely watching this
05:13next trip.
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