The 2025 Lincoln Navigator is not a Cadillac Escalade, but it’s an still enormous, over-the-top, three-ton $130,000 luxo-mobile with “digital scents” and a four-foot wide screen. I’m sure you have some curiosities about it.
Jason Torchinsky is on his final leg of an absolutely ridiculous cross-country trip in a 375,000 mile beat-to-heck former New York City taxi cab, and I wanted to surprise him with a car he can relax in upon his arrival. Three-thousand miles in an $800 heap that was really designed for city driving and not long freeway runs is no joke, after all. So I chose something ridiculously bougie, but not only that — it’s a car I’m legitimately curious about, because it looks…kinda good!
It’s basically a swanked-up Ford Expedition (in much the same way that an Escalade is a swanked-up Suburban), but it’s coming from a brand that’s putting some real dollars behind a push towards a much-needed renaissance. I drove the baby-Navigator, the Nautilus, last year, and I thought it was great. Surely the ‘gator will be even better?
We’ll find out.
If you have any questions about the new 2025 Lincoln Navigator, throw them into the comments below!
Our first house in 2004 was not much more than $130k. I can’t even.
The gap between that and an Expedition is just too much for me. It’s one thing to talk about a loaded Camry XSE being twice the price of a base model. It’s a whole nother deal when you’re in this price range. That’s 3-4 modern classics plus a hefty maintenance and insurance reserve. I just don’t assign that much cachet to Fancy Ford. I can’t.
Is the leg room up front quite short or is everything else just really, really, really massive?
And can I put it in the washer or is it dry clean only?
I’ve ordered a “Reserve L” (base, extended length) with bench seat, but I haven’t gotten to see one in person yet. Planning to replace our 2020 Telluride with it. My questions are:
How comfortably can it fit three car seats across the 2nd row?
Are there 2nd row window shades? Any other nice touches for kids?
I know the 2nd row seats are supposed to be able to tilt and slide even with a forward-facing car seat (provided it is attached via LATCH); how quick and easy is that to operate in practice, and does it actually give decent third-row access?
How roomy is the 3rd row? Suitable for 2 adults?
How good and user-friendly is BlueCruise?
“Any other nice touches for kids?”
When I was a kid, the nice touches in the car were clean windows, Dad leaving the AM radio on the rock station with the volume up on that single speaker in the dash so we could hear it in back, turning up the AC, and not being touched by my Sister.
I hear you. I grew up as one of five kids in a Taurus station wagon, road tripping from NY to FL in the rear-facing third row, sitting on a beach towel so I didn’t have to peel myself off the hot vinyl. When my parents got a Suburban as a company car it was a game changer.
How quickly does it tow a NV200 taxi on a trailer from 0-60? Would you prefer to drive it or the Cybertruck in West Hollywood? Same question but in South Gate? Does it a proper Hot Rod Lincoln up the Grapevine?
How easy is it to clean various baby emissions from perforated nappa leather?
Or “nappy leather” as the Brits more accurately call it.
I have no questions. It’s a hulking huge luxo-barge. Same as every other vehicle out there these days.