This is the Refreshed 2025 Lincoln Navigator

Chris Teague
by Chris Teague

Lincoln just pulled the wraps off its new Navigator. The flagship luxury SUV got a significant update for the 2025 model year, arriving with new styling, a revised interior, and more screens than an AMC movie theater.


The Navigator’s exterior styling has a new grille and integrated LED lightbar that features an animated lighting sequence to welcome and say goodbye to passengers. The lightbar look extends to the rear, where the taillights span the rear liftgate. Lincoln equips standard 22-inch wheels, but two 24-inch designs are available for the first time.


Inside, the refreshed cabin features “Rejuvenate” systems that bring heated and massaging front seats, calming audio-visual tech, ambient lighting, and a standard interior scent system. The SUV uses its display screens and interior lighting to create the themes. There’s seating for up to eight people, and Lincoln offers heated, ventilated, and massaging second-row captains chairs.


Two new Black Label themes are available, including the Invitation theme with black leather and Khaya wood accents. The Enlighten theme brings a lighter interior with beige and gray piping, laser-etched birchwood accents, and espresso-color carpeting.

The 11.1-inch touchscreen is part of a 48-inch panoramic display powered by Google. It offers Google Play store and Assistant features, as well as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. A new Pano Mode allows passengers to utilize the panoramic display for movies or games when the vehicle is parked. BlueCruise is also available.


Finally, the new Navigator retains the previous model’s powertrain. It’s a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 making 440 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque. Adaptive suspension and four-wheel drive are standard. The powertrain offers up to 8,700 pounds of towing with the Heavy-Duty Trailer Tow Package, and Ford’s Pro Trailer Backup Assist is available.


Lincoln hasn’t detailed pricing for the 2025 Navigator yet, but said it would land on dealers’ lots next spring.


[Images: Lincoln]


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Chris Teague
Chris Teague

Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.

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  • JTiberius1701 JTiberius1701 on Aug 22, 2024
    Not nearly enough different than the previous unit. Definition of mailing it in. And Cprescott nailed it. Those screens not only will be big $$$ but totally unnecessary.
  • 3SpeedAutomatic 3SpeedAutomatic on Aug 27, 2024
    Have you noticed designers have gotten away from the teardrop design of the roof. Instead, as flat as a pancake with gobs of headroom in the second and third row seats. Reminds me of my '12 Ford Escape. Boxy as hell!! I like boxy...boxy is good!!🚗🚗🚗
  • Tassos It is LAUGHABLE to use the word "CHEAP" in connection with a BEV with a BASE PRICE (before options, taxes etc) of $50,000, EVEN if these are in worthless 2024 Cackling Kamala dollars.
  • Funky D I drove a 2012 Eos Executive for 5 years (bought in 2017 at 78k) and ran until 112k, at which time I handed it down to my youngest son. They are fun rides, and the 2.0 TSi has enough zip to make it useful. The top mechanism has been flawless, as long as it gets an annual lubrication and alignment. The ones with the DSG are reliable, again as long as maintenance is performed. They were way overpriced as new and depreciated rapidly, but seemed to have bottomed out. My example still has a book value of $6500~$7000.
  • CaddyDaddy Cut the top off with a Sawzall, drive it till it dies. Try to throw a blue tarp over the interior when it rains. I can smell the mold from my laptop.
  • Bd2 Good to see Sonata taking the sales crown from Camry.
  • MaintenanceCosts If they can come in at around Model Y prices and manage to feel more luxurious than the very spartan Model Y, they might have a winner.
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