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The 2025 Lincoln Navigator will get a dramatically new look and higher levels of interior features, luxury and technology when a new version of the large luxury SUV hits the market next spring
Lincoln dealers will begin taking orders for the 2025 Navigator in October. Lincoln today released a first commercial, narrated by Matthew McConaughey.
The updated Navigator features full-width light bars front and rear and plenty of new sheetmetal, including the front and rear fenders, hood and tailgate.
The Navigator’s chassis remains essentially unchanged—standard all-wheel drive, 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 and 10-speed automatic transmission—but a new infotainment system offers a 48-inch display as well as Google navigation and voice recognition.
The radical new display – which stretches almost from door to door – is daunting at first glance, but I quickly got used to it when I drove the smaller Lincoln Nautilus, which introduced the feature earlier this year.
The latest version of Lincoln’s Blue Cruise hands-free driving system provides improved lane centering.
The Navigator 2025 will omit the basic Premiere equipment. Only Reserve and Black Label will remain.
Lincoln will announce pricing soon, but expects it to start at around $100,000, just above the starting price of the 2024 Navigator Reserve.
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Equipment variants of the Lincoln Navigator 2025
Redesign the dashboard
The wide, high-resolution display runs along the bottom of the windshield and shows the instrument cluster, navigation, audio and other information. When the navigator is parked, it also serves as a video or gaming display.
The screen is the same size as the display in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, but the wider navigator leaves room for audio speakers between the screen and the front doors.
The all-new proportions allowed Lincoln to redesign the entire front of the cabin. The dashboard is lower and wider from front to back, and the steering wheel has been reshaped into a “squircle” – a flattened circle – to provide a clear view of the four-inch screen at the base of the windshield. The squircle is an incongruous but not unwelcome reminder of the controls found in race cars and airplanes in the big SUV. It also features a pair of capacitive pads for controlling hands-free driving, cruise control and more.
The result is a spacious cockpit with generous visibility and a small center console that has space for an 11.1-inch touchscreen but not many other controls.
For this reason, Lincoln dispensed with physical buttons and switches for climate and audio controls, with the exception of a large crystal volume control in the center console.
Even the orientation of the air vents can be controlled via the touchscreen.
The width of the console is unchanged, but its reduced height and other changes make it feel very wide. It has deep storage compartments, cupholders, USB ports and a wireless charger. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard.
Top features of the 2025 Lincoln Navigator
LED light strips front and rear
48-inch front display
Electrically adjustable second row seats with heating, ventilation and console
Electric tailgate with proximity sensor
22 or 24 inch wheels
24- or 30-way adjustable front seats
Reclining and heated seats in the third row
14 USB-C ports
Black Label becomes even more luxurious
The first-class Black Label equipment complements the equipment with two new, detailed color and material combinations:
Enlighten – Laser-engraved, open-pore birch wood; light beige seat, door and dashboard trim; carpet and headliner in “Espresso”. The graduated colors are inspired by dawn and sunset.
Atmospheric – Inspired by a stormy day, it includes grey and black leather, accents in “radiant copper”, ash wood and leather with perforations in graduated depths to recall the precipitation falling in the sky.
Black Label models also get power-adjustable second-row seats that include heating, ventilation, a center console, and other features.
Seating comes standard in Black Label trim, available from Reserve Navigators, which otherwise offers either a bench or a pair of simpler captain’s chairs.
The only chrome inside or out is the traditional Lincoln star that shines on the grille. Satin aluminum trim is everywhere else except on Reserve models with the Jet package, which have black wheels, mirrors and other exterior trim.
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