Car review: 2015 Lincoln Navigator SUV wheezes keeping up with Escalade - ExtremeTech
The Lincoln Motor Company sends out the refreshed 2015 Navigator luxury SUV under-equipped to do battle against the better-prepared forces of Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, and Land Rover. The Navigator actually rides well and carries eight comfortably. The Navigator is an aging Lincoln. The Navigator may be the last to get with the new Lincoln program, and that will be a 2017 model or later. Some of the electronics underpinnings date to 2007, when the third-generation Navigator launched, so old the Navigator reportedly can’t support newer driver assist technologies such as adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, lane keep... Driver assist technology is an important part of why Cadillac Escalade outsold the Navigator 3-1 last year (it’s closer this year). On the road with the Lincoln Navigator The Navigator is at home hauling six to eight people comfortably along the Interstate with a 9,000-pound boat and trailer in tow. For 2015, Lincoln abandoned its V8 engine in favor of a twin-turbocharged (EcoBoost) V6 that delivers 380 hp after software tweaks by Lincoln engineers, 15 hp more than the same engine develops in a Ford. In a week driving the Navigator, the four-wheel-drive model never got stuck in snow, and it also was challenging to come to a stop going down a hill at a safe – so it seemed – 10 mph, when there turned out to be patches of ice. Source: www.extremetech.com
