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 |
| Gas Economic 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 stage evaluated, and will not replicate Shopper Information’s impressions of the complete mannequin lineup. | |
| Huge & Tall Consolation | |
| Huge Man | A |
| Tall Man | A |
| Huge & Tall consolation scores 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 Sort | Turbocharged V6 |
| Transmission | 10-Velocity automated |
| Drive Wheels | 4WD |
Class: Premium Giant SUV
Nation of Manufacture: U.S.
Coloration: Grey Mist Metallic Tri-Coat
Seating Capability: 7
Miles pushed: 111
Actual-world gasoline financial system: 15.2 mpg
Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway
EPA-estimated gasoline financial system: 15/22/17 (metropolis, freeway, mixed)
Gas sort: Common Gasoline
Base worth: $99,995 (not together with $1995 vacation spot cost)
Choices on take a look at automobile: Particular paint ($750), energy massaging 2nd-row seats ($2050), heavy-duty tow bundle ($570)
Value as examined: $105,360
Audio-System High quality
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Professionals and Cons
The good: Class-leading refinement, excellent passenger consolation
The nice: Spectacular energy, good dealing with, runs on regular-grade gasoline
The not so good: Huge worth improve for 2025
Evaluate
It might sound odd that there could be an “entry-level” model of Lincoln’s flagship SUVand for 2025, the idea of an “inexpensive” Navigator is totally quashed.
Newly up to date with contemporary styling and a daring, new, cabin-wide LCD show, the largest 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 in style and well-regarded Expeditionthe Navigator is as massive as SUVs come, and competes for purchasers straight with the Cadillac Escalade, and more-or-less straight with the GMC Yukon Denali and Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
Engines
There is only one powertrain supplied for 2025. Navigator is powered by as 440-horsepower variations of Ford’s ubiquitous 3.5-liter turbocharged V6 mated to a 10-speed automated transmission. All Navigators come normal with 4WDand can run simply high-quality on regular-grade gasoline.
Huge and Large
And whereas there are not any decisions as to what comes beneath the hood, Navigator may be had in two sizes: massive, and large. The usual-length Navigator stretches 210 inches and rides on a 123-inch wheelbase. The L version of the large Lincoln is actually massive, 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 stagewhich 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 stage, with a beginning worth 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 expensive $92,295.
With the Premiere gone, Lincoln has inserted a brand new Jet trim stage 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 Stage
Observe that whereas Lincoln treats the Jet as a novel trim stage, the mannequin seems on the window sticker as an choice group on the Reserve. You possibly can learn our evaluation of the Lincoln Corsair in Jet trim right here.
Check Automotive
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 couple of choices and the vacation spot cost, our take a look at automobile got here to $105,360.
Measurement, Room, and Consolation
As a lot as attainable—it’s not possible to fully deny the physics—the Navigator feels smaller from behind the wheel than it’s…except you’re attempting to park it in a public storage. Inside, nevertheless this mighty Lincoln flagship feels enormous, which is form of the purpose of proudly owning one.
Although all the large SUVs supplied 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 respect the massive door openings, comparatively straightforward step-in, ethereal cabin, and respectable outward visibility.
Although our take a look at automobile was not an L model, 2nd-row area stays huge, and threerd area is grownup buddy, 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 straightforward to make use of, and that’s excessive reward.
Most spectacular, nevertheless, is the large, pillar-to-pillar, LCD display which is positioned under the windshield. The sprawling, easy-to-read monitor may be configured to current no matter data you want to see at a look, and is impartial of the console display (see under). This editor selected to have an analog clock, present music alternative, a map, and journey data on show. And, regardless of the display location, it’s not 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 normal, the Navigator inside is among the many classiest within the premium massive SUV phase. Additionally, the Revel-brand audio system discovered on our take a look at automobile is among the many finest in-vehicle sound techniques 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 street 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 homeowners who put a worth on high-end sound copy.
Journey and Dealing with
The suspension deftly filters out street imperfections, although is biased barely to a firmer trip expertise. We discovered the trip applicable for the character of this automobile, however some buyers could also be on the lookout for one thing cushier. We appreciated the delicate really feel of the chassis setup, and suspect drivers shifting up from smaller automobiles will as nicely. Positively take time for a take a look at drive, although.
Although the Navigator defies being hustled, it handles higher than something this massive ought to. We respect 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 automated appears to all the time be in the best 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 ground is a little bit excessive off the bottom, it’s flat, making sliding packing containers for-and-aft straightforward.
Worth
Whereas we remorse seeing the bottom worth of a Navigator rise as a lot because it has, we additionally know that almost all of buyers on this class go on the bottom mannequin for one thing as nicely geared up as our take a look at automobile.
Customers on this phase owe it to themselves to check drive all the pieces obtainable, 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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