The new Ford Expedition adds Android Automotive and half of the Lincoln’s panoramic screen

The caller Expedition, which is archetypal being teased with a drone airy show contiguous successful Texas, looks similar it has lone the near fractional of the Lincoln’s 48-inch pillar-to-pillar panoramic display, leaving down conscionable a 24-inch sheet for the Expedition.

You’re getting the aforesaid instrumentality clump and navigation combo successful beforehand of the driver’s seat, but without the widgets that diagnostic connected the close fractional of the Lincoln’s extended screen. The Expedition’s smaller halfway touchscreen that lives beneath it besides runs Google Play Store apps, operates Apple CarPlay, and has integer HVAC controls, conscionable similar the Lincoln. The car besides offers some Google Assistant and Alexa dependable assistants (one astatine a time), and immoderate models connection BlueCruise hands-free driving.

Pillar-to-pillar panoramic screens person go a flashy diagnostic manufacturers person trotted retired for their astir luxurious vehicles recently. They’ve often been pitched arsenic an infotainment hub for the beforehand passenger, letting them watch streaming videos and even play immoderate PlayStation.

Ford is selling a standard-wheelbase Expedition and an extended “Max” one. In the halfway row, you person options for seat seating oregon skipper chairs; the backs of the first-row headrests person clamps that tin clasp smartphones oregon tablets for passengers successful the halfway row. The Expedition tin spot up to 8 radical with the seat option.

At archetypal glance, the Expedition seems similar a transcript of the caller Lincoln Navigator with its divided rear gate, the summation of a airy barroom up front, and a akin 3.5-liter V6 motor nether the hood. (It’s an “EcoBoost” for the Ford.) A caller Tremor trim for the Expedition puts retired up to 440 horsepower and has tuned suspension and unsocial way modes for much off-road capabilities. Like the Navigator, Ford doesn’t connection a hybrid powertrain enactment successful the Expedition, either.