All full-size SUVs look large and imposing – notably the luxurious fashions. The 2025 Lincoln Navigator is so formidable that designers examine it to lounges and parks, not automobiles.
Lincoln hasn’t completely redesigned each bolt of its large SUV. The chassis, engine, and transmission of the 2025 mannequin would be the similar as these of the 2024 Navigator, however Lincoln has so totally remade the physique and cabin that they name this a brand new era. We’ll go together with it.
We gained’t know the pricing for just a few months. We anticipate the Navigator to start out at round $80,000 and maybe push as excessive as $120,000 absolutely geared up.
Grand Presence
Lincoln makes use of nautical phrases for its automobiles: Navigator, Nautilus, Corsair, Aviator (the U.S. Navy’s time period for a pilot, chosen as a result of “pilot” already had a maritime which means). They might have gotten away with renaming the 2025 Navigator the “Lincoln Battleship.”
True, the 2024 mannequin was already large. However, for 2025, Lincoln has enlarged the grille, turning it into a real maw that appears able to eat a Volkswagen Golf in visitors. An accessible Jet Look Package deal turns it utterly black if you wish to underline the risk.
A lighted brand sits within the heart of a lighted horizontal line extensive throughout the entrance that ticks up into the headlights, like wingtips. The hood has simply sufficient of a curve that appears to bulge.
In again, a cut up tailgate seems. About two-thirds of it lifts, with one-third folding downward – useful in loading objects into the cargo house with out the danger of them rolling out. To open it, you stand nonetheless behind the automobile with the important thing for 3 seconds. That’s all it takes. Opening the decrease gate creates a bench with a seating capability of 500 kilos.
The low liftover part can be wanted as a result of many homeowners would have bother getting a suitcase over something increased. The 2025 Navigator rides on 22-inch wheels, with 24-inch fashions on increased trims.
A ‘Third Area‘ Inside, With Acres of Display screen
To clarify the Navigator’s inside, we now have to diverge right into a dialogue of metropolis planning. We’re not kidding.
Lately, metropolis planners have taken to speaking about “third areas.” These are the locations you look ahead to going that aren’t your private home or your workplace. Your third house is likely to be a park, a espresso store, or a wine bar (we’re not judging). It’s the place you go to get away from the opposite two.
Lincoln says the Navigator’s inside is “a 3rd house that rejuvenates purchasers in a completely new approach on and off the highway.”
Oh, your trip is sort of a luxurious automobile inside? Mine’s like a neighborhood bistro with a view of the river.
What you view from the Navigator’s entrance seats are screens. An unlimited 48-inch-diagonal display floor stretches virtually from door to door. The one non-screen surfaces are the audio system. Lincoln has sprinkled 28 audio system across the cabin. The Revel Final 3D Audio System is customary gear at each trim degree.
That giant display is about surprisingly removed from the individuals, however that’s deliberate. Lincoln says its distant focal size means the driving force’s pupils have to regulate much less when wanting down the highway to test the car’s velocity.
The steering wheel is a pleasing squircle (squared circle) to intervene much less with the view.
The large display reveals driver data on the left, infotainment within the heart, and a separate leisure setup for the passenger on the best. Motion pictures and video games, nonetheless, solely play when parked to keep away from distracting the driving force.
The display is simply too far-off to function as a touchscreen, so a touchscreen beneath controls it.
Different creature comforts embrace a 24-way power-adjustable driver’s seat and a 22-way power-adjustable passenger’s seat — 30 methods in case you spring for the top-of-the-line Black Label mannequin. All entrance seats (and, optionally, second-row captain’s chairs) supply heating, air flow, and therapeutic massage features.
The third row presents a intelligent 40/20/40 folding operate to customise cargo house.
Programmable Scents, Meditations
Programmable scents are customary. Even the bottom mannequin permits you to set the cabin scent.
Perhaps your third house is a spa? Lincoln has two choices for you in that case. A Rejuvenate setting “robotically adjusts seat place with warmth and therapeutic massage choices, local weather management, scenting, sound, lighting, and expansive visuals to scale back stress and create a calming expertise contained in the car.”
Spa experiences embrace Waterfall Meditation, Aurora Borealis, and Parts.
Lincoln will give consumers a one-year subscription to the Calm meditation app to solidify the spa theme.
Don’t meditate whereas driving. However we perceive the temptation. Ford’s Blue Cruise hands-free freeway system is customary on each trim.
“Navigator purchasers have entry to BlueCruise for 4 years at car buy,” Lincoln says. Extending past 4 years will run $75 monthly or $800 per 12 months if present pricing holds in 2029.
Similar-Outdated, Similar-Outdated Mechanicals (Which Is Effective)
By now, you’ll discover that we haven’t mentioned how the car drives. That’s as a result of there isn’t a lot to report. Below the hood, a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 engine makes 440 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque. 4-wheel drive is customary, as is an adaptive damping suspension.
That’s the identical setup because the 2024 Navigator. That’s not a criticism – KBB skilled check driver Colin Ryan says of the outdated setup, “This large Lincoln SUV glides alongside easily and calmly even when that proper foot does a bit of flexing. A road-reading adaptive suspension is a part of the deal, bringing a effective stability of consolation and management.”
Lincoln noticed little cause to vary any of that.
Nonetheless Spectacular in a Do-It-All Class
All full-size luxurious SUVs showcase all the things an automaker can do. The Cadillac Escalade V accelerates like a sports activities automobile with seating for seven adults. The Infiniti QX80 senses your physique temperature and adjusts the airflow to every passenger individually to compensate. They’re all exceptional.
Nevertheless, Lincoln could also be on to one thing with its “third house” on wheels. To make sure, we’ll should see how a lot it prices. The 2025 Navigator will attain showrooms subsequent spring, however sellers will begin taking orders in October.
