- Lincoln has teased the 2025 Navigator in a new video before its debut on August 15.
- The video shows an illuminated badge and light-up bars in the grille.
- The cabin now features a squared-off wheel and a restyled dashboard.
Cadillac recently revealed a refreshed Escalade SUV for 2025, and now Lincoln is ready to respond with its own updated Navigator. The American luxury brand released a teaser video today showing off several details on the 2025 Navigator and announcing that the revised SUV will be revealed on August 15.
The 2025 Navigator isn’t expected to be a complete overhaul but appears to be a fairly thorough refresh of Lincoln’s biggest SUV. The video doesn’t provide a clear look just yet, but plenty of details are shown that allow us to piece together an idea of what to expect, and the Navigator looks to build on the design cues first seen on the smaller 2024 Nautilus.
While the current Navigator is already offered with an illuminated badge in the grille, the 2025 model looks to take it a step further with new light-up bars extending outward from the logo across the grille. Inside, the 2025 Navigator will receive a squared-off steering wheel like the Nautilus has, while the piano-key shifter buttons have moved lower onto the center console.
While it wasn’t shown in the video, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the 2025 model gain a full-width screen spanning the dashboard in a similar vein to the Nautilus’s 48.0-inch unit. The 2025 Escalade adopts a 55-inch display that stretches from pillar to pillar.
It’s unclear if Lincoln is planning any changes to the Navigator’s powertrain, but the twin-turbocharged V-6 could receive a power increase. Still, the Navigator’s 440 horsepower already outdoes the 420 ponies produced by the Caddy’s 6.2-liter V-8, and we don’t expect Lincoln to take the fight to the 682-hp supercharged Escalade V. Either way, all details on the Navigator will be revealed in just two days’ time.
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