One drive in the "hands-free" 2022 Lincoln Navigator told me everything I need to know
New for 2022, the flagship Lincoln allows for completely hands-free driving (as long as you keep both eyes on the road)
The Lincoln Navigator is a vehicle that evokes opinions.
Folks seem to either love the sheer enormity and luxuriousness of the Navigator — or despise its enormity and unnecessariness.
For 2022, there’s an updated Navigator that won’t win over any haters, but it might draw some looks away from the competition thanks to a few must-have features, a gorgeous interior — and something called the “Lincoln sanctuary.”
The copywriters at Lincoln broke out the thesaurus when writing the press release for the new Navigator. Elegant, effortless, serene, commanding, and unmistakable were just a few of the adjectives used to describe the luxury beast.
First introduced in 1998, the Navigator has helped keep Lincoln in the conversation over the decades when so many other brands have fallen by the wayside. Still, Navigator sales of 15,631 units in 2021 fell well short of the 40,505 Escalades sold by archrival Cadillac.
I reviewed the Escalade last year and found it stuffed with a mind-boggling amount of tech, including an augmented reality mode with floating navigation arrows superimposed over a camera view out the front of the car on the dash cluster that was a neat preview of what we’ll see on windshields just in time for cars to drive themselves so we don’t need navigation anymore.
Speaking of cars driving themselves, the 2022 Navigator features ActiveGlide, the Lincolnized version of Ford’s Blue Cruise. It works identically here as to BlueCruise, allowing for hands-off driving on 130,000 miles of “Blue Zones” — generally limited access, multi-lane thoroughfares like interstate highways — so long as the driver is always paying attention.
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