Textual content by Tom Appel
2025 Lincoln Navigator Reserve 4X4
Specs
| CG Report Card | |
|---|---|
| Room and Consolation | A |
| Energy and Efficiency | B+ |
| Match and End | A |
| Gasoline Financial system | B- |
| Worth | B |
| Report-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver evaluations. All grades are versus different automobiles in the identical class. Worth grade is for particular trim degree evaluated, and will not mirror Shopper Information’s impressions of all the mannequin lineup. | |
| Huge & Tall Consolation | |
| Huge Man | A |
| Tall Man | A |
| Huge & Tall consolation rankings are for entrance seats solely. “Huge” ranking based mostly on male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” ranking based mostly on 6’6″-tall male tester. | |
| Drivetrain | |
| Engine Specs | 440-horsepower, 3.5-liter |
| Engine Kind | Turbocharged V6 |
| Transmission | 10-Pace computerized |
| Drive Wheels | 4WD |
Class: Premium Massive SUV
Nation of Manufacture: U.S.
Coloration: Grey Mist Metallic Tri-Coat
Seating Capability: 7
Miles pushed: 111
Actual-world gas economic system: 15.2 mpg
Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway
EPA-estimated gas economic system: 15/22/17 (metropolis, freeway, mixed)
Gasoline sort: Common Fuel
Base value: $99,995 (not together with $1995 vacation spot cost)
Choices on check automobile: Particular paint ($750), energy massaging 2nd-row seats ($2050), heavy-duty tow package deal ($570)
Worth as examined: $105,360
Audio-System High quality
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Professionals and Cons
The good: Class-leading refinement, excellent passenger consolation
The great: Spectacular energy, good dealing with, runs on regular-grade gasoline
The not so good: Huge value improve for 2025
Evaluation
It might sound odd that there could be an “entry-level” model of Lincoln’s flagship SUV, and for 2025, the idea of an “reasonably priced” Navigator is totally quashed.
Newly up to date with recent styling and a daring, new, cabin-wide LCD show, the most important Lincoln is as upscale as ever, and for 2025, with no base mannequin. We’ll discuss trim ranges in a second…
Competitors
Primarily a luxurious interpretation of Ford’s fashionable and well-regarded Expedition, the Navigator is as giant as SUVs come, and competes for patrons instantly with the Cadillac Escalade, and more-or-less instantly with the GMC Yukon Denali and Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
Engines
There is only one powertrain provided for 2025. Navigator is powered by as 440-horsepower variations of Ford’s ubiquitous 3.5-liter turbocharged V6 mated to a 10-speed computerized transmission. All Navigators come commonplace with 4WD, and can run simply superb on regular-grade gasoline.
Huge and Large
And whereas there are not any decisions as to what comes below the hood, Navigator will be had in two sizes: large, and large. The usual-length Navigator stretches 210 inches and rides on a 123-inch wheelbase. The L version of the large Lincoln is really large, stretching 222 inches total, and using on a 133-inch wheelbase. As for the trim ranges…
Costs and Trim Ranges
Gone for 2025 is the Premiere trim degree, which began final 12 months at simply $83,265. We are saying simply, as a result of the Reserve, beforehand the midlevel Navigator, is now the least costly trim degree, with a beginning value of $102,190. What this implies for luxury-minded tightwads is that the worth of entry for a Navigator has risen practically $20,000 in a single mannequin 12 months. For the document, the least-expensive Escalade now rings the clock at only-slightly much less dear $92,295.
With the Premiere gone, Lincoln has inserted a brand new Jet trim degree into the center of its three-trim-level lineup. Take a look:
- Reserve ($102,190)
- Reserve L ($105,180)
- Jet ($105,690)
- Jet L ($108,680)
- Black Label ($119,190)
- Black Label L ($122,190)
New Jet Trim Degree
Notice that whereas Lincoln treats the Jet as a novel trim degree, the mannequin seems on the window sticker as an possibility group on the Reserve. You possibly can learn our overview of the Lincoln Corsair in Jet trim right here.
Check Automobile
Shopper Information not too long ago spent per week behind the wheel of a standard-length 2025 Navigator in Grey Mist Metallic. Together with a number of choices and the vacation spot cost, our check automotive got here to $105,360.
Measurement, Room, and Consolation
As a lot as attainable—it’s not possible to utterly deny the physics—the Navigator feels smaller from behind the wheel than it’s…until you’re attempting to park it in a public storage. Inside, nonetheless this mighty Lincoln flagship feels big, which is form of the purpose of proudly owning one.
Although all the large SUVs provided on the market within the U.S.—besides the Lexus LX—are about the identical dimension, the Ford fashions really feel the roomiest to us. We admire the big door openings, comparatively simple step-in, ethereal cabin, and respectable outward visibility.
Although our check automobile was not an L model, 2nd-row area stays huge, and threerd area is grownup good friend, offering that grownup is nimble sufficient to crawl again there.
Controls and Connectivity
Although up to date for 2025, we discovered the management format acquainted, and usually Ford simple to make use of, and that’s excessive reward.
Most spectacular, nonetheless, is the huge, pillar-to-pillar, LCD display which is positioned under the windshield. The sprawling, easy-to-read monitor will be configured to current no matter info you want to see at a look, and is unbiased of the console display (see under). This editor selected to have an analog clock, present music selection, a map, and journey info on show. And, regardless of the display location, it isn’t simply washed out, ever by direct daylight.
Cabin Appointments
The cabin itself is a cultured, understated affair. Lined with top-notch supplies and constructed to a excessive commonplace, the Navigator inside is among the many classiest within the premium giant SUV section. Additionally, the Revel-brand audio system discovered on our check automobile is among the many finest in-vehicle sound programs we’ve ever skilled.
Quietness
Underway the Navigator earns kudos for sound—what you hear, and what you don’t. Little or no wind and highway noise makes its method into the cabin, and simple 1st-to-3rd-row dialog is feasible, even at freeway speeds. As for what you do hear, the aforementioned Revel audio system will delight house owners who put a worth on high-end sound copy.
Trip and Dealing with
The suspension deftly filters out highway imperfections, although is biased barely to a firmer experience expertise. We discovered the experience acceptable for the character of this automobile, however some customers could also be in search of one thing cushier. We appreciated the subtle really feel of the chassis setup, and suspect drivers shifting up from smaller automobiles will as effectively. Undoubtedly take time for a check drive, although.
Although the Navigator defies being hustled, it handles higher than something this massive ought to. We admire the steering really feel—there’s some—and the short throttle response.
Energy and Efficiency
The turbocharged V6 produces loads of passing and merging energy, and launches the large Lincoln from a cease with authority. It additionally sounds nice when pushed. The ten-speed computerized appears to at all times be in the appropriate gear, and shifts with the refined polish of a European luxurious sedan.
Cargo Area
As for cargo area, there’s loads of it, particularly with the threerd-row seatings folded flat. Whereas the load flooring is somewhat excessive off the bottom, it’s flat, making sliding packing containers for-and-aft simple.
Worth
Whereas we remorse seeing the bottom value of a Navigator rise as a lot because it has, we additionally know that almost all of customers on this class cross on the bottom mannequin for one thing as effectively geared up as our check automotive.
Consumers on this section owe it to themselves to check drive all the things out there, however barring that you’ll want to spend time with the Navigator and Escalade. Sure, these automobiles are terribly costly, however they’re additionally very luxurious, and, when you want the area and energy, Fairly sensible.
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