Lincoln is making a big change to the largest vehicle in its lineup by adding a panoramic display across the dashboard. The 2025 Navigator SUV is the automaker’s second vehicle to get the Android-based digital dashboard developed by Ford, with its first implementation introduced in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.
The new Navigator, which is making its debut during Monterey Car Week, takes the Nautilus’ Panoramic Display (technically, it’s two screens) with the Lincoln Digital Experience and drops it in with a more stylish and open flair and adds contrasting speakers to the sides. Meanwhile, the same continuous curved displays in the Nautilus go pillar to pillar, look more integrated, and its trim lines up with the doors.
The Navigator and Nautilus have functionally the same setup, Lincoln communications manager Anika Salceda-Wycoco says. However, the Navigator has a new entertainment feature called Pano mode, which Salceda-Wycoco says “brings in the capability for video streaming and gaming on either side of the 48” Panoramic Display.”
Pano mode surprisingly isn’t in the Nautilus, which can only play games and movies on the smaller central touchscreen — but that might change. “We’re talking about it first on Navigator and will have more to share in the future,” Salceda-Wycoco says. The Navigator is also the first to get Lincoln’s “Rejuvenate mode” spa experience, which was announced for the 2024 Nautilus but didn’t make it by launch.
Rejuvenate mode adds sounds and scenery like the Aurora Borealis to the screens, sets your seat back, turns on massagers and heating, and pumps out air freshener scents for a 5 or 10-minute break. Salceda-Wycoco says the 2025 Nautilus will also get the feature at launch, while Lincoln has “more to share on timing soon” for the current 2024. The Navigator will include a waterfall meditation experience in partnership with the Calm app, which will also slip owners a complimentary one-year subscription.
Jump into the center row of the Navigator, and you’ll find an option for adjustable captain chairs with many of the features of the front row (including massagers), two touchscreens for entertainment, and a 5.8-inch center control screen for climate and more. Past the folding third-row seats, there’s a split tailgate that can open for you on approach.
The Navigator has some all-new looks on the outside, too, with an updated facia that looks more in line with the new Nautilus, including a lightbar cutting across the middle. Unfortunately, the Navigator isn’t evolving under the hood this year; it’s still a massive gas truck running on a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 engine with no hybrid option like the Nautilus.
Lincoln has said it plans on releasing three new fully electric vehicles by 2025 and a fourth by 2026. But earlier this year, the brand’s CEO was sounding pretty pessimistic about those deadlines.
