Lincoln is making a large alteration to the largest conveyance successful its lineup by adding a panoramic show crossed the dashboard. The 2025 Navigator SUV is the automaker’s 2nd conveyance to get the Android-based integer dashboard developed by Ford, with its archetypal implementation introduced successful the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.
The caller Navigator, which is making its debut during Monterey Car Week, takes the Nautilus’ Panoramic Display (technically, it’s 2 screens) with the Lincoln Digital Experience and drops it successful with a much stylish and unfastened flair and adds contrasting speakers to the sides. Meanwhile, the aforesaid continuous curved displays successful the Nautilus spell pillar to pillar, look much integrated, and its trim lines up with the doors.
Left: 2025 Navigator Right: 2024 Nautilus
The Navigator and Nautilus person functionally the aforesaid setup, Lincoln communications manager Anika Salceda-Wycoco says. However, the Navigator has a caller amusement diagnostic called Pano mode, which Salceda-Wycoco says “brings successful the capability for video streaming and gaming connected either broadside of the 48” Panoramic Display.”
Pano mode amazingly isn’t successful the Nautilus, which tin lone play games and movies connected the smaller cardinal touchscreen — but that mightiness change. “We’re talking astir it archetypal connected Navigator and volition person much to stock successful the future,” Salceda-Wycoco says. The Navigator is besides the archetypal to get Lincoln’s “Rejuvenate mode” spa experience, which was announced for the 2024 Nautilus but didn’t marque it by launch.
Rejuvenate mode adds sounds and scenery similar the Aurora Borealis to the screens, sets your spot back, turns connected massagers and heating, and pumps retired aerial freshener scents for a 5 oregon 10-minute break. Salceda-Wycoco says the 2025 Nautilus volition besides get the diagnostic astatine launch, portion Lincoln has “more to stock connected timing soon” for the existent 2024. The Navigator volition see a waterfall meditation acquisition successful concern with the Calm app, which volition besides gaffe owners a complimentary one-year subscription.
Jump into the halfway enactment of the Navigator, and you’ll find an enactment for adjustable skipper chairs with galore of the features of the beforehand enactment (including massagers), 2 touchscreens for entertainment, and a 5.8-inch halfway power surface for clime and more. Past the folding third-row seats, there’s a divided tailgate that tin unfastened for you connected approach.
The Navigator has immoderate all-new looks connected the outside, too, with an updated facia that looks much successful enactment with the caller Nautilus, including a lightbar cutting crossed the middle. Unfortunately, the Navigator isn’t evolving nether the hood this year; it's inactive a monolithic state motortruck moving connected a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 motor with nary hybrid enactment similar the Nautilus.
Lincoln has said it plans connected releasing 3 caller afloat electrical vehicles by 2025 and a 4th by 2026. But earlier this year, the brand’s CEO was sounding beauteous pessimistic astir those deadlines.