Lincoln, the Ford Group brand dedicated to the premium world, raises the bar even higher for one of its two flagship models, the 7-seater large cuv Aviator.
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The car presents itself as a 2025 model year (it will be on sale from the summer) with important aesthetic improvements and above all a substantial increase in equipment.
This is the case of the new front - more modern and free of unnecessary refinement - and of some aesthetic packages that make the different editions of the Aviator even more exclusive.
And above all with the debut of BlueCruise Hands-Free Highway Driving, i.e. 'hands-free' autonomous highway driving, already present in the Ford F-150, Mustang Mach-E and Ford Expedition models.
It must immediately be said that this 'step forward' for a high-end model like the Aviator (even if it is built on the same technical basis as the Ford Explorer, instead marks a step backwards from the point of view of engines and in particular towards electrification.
For the 2025 model year is in fact only expected to have a 3.5 V6 twin turbo petrol engine with 400 HP, while the V6 Phev with 494 HP and only 31 km of electric range has been eliminated from the offer, which - explains Lincoln - constituted only 15% of sales In the Explorer, however, a 450 HP plug-in hybrid derived from the EcoBoost 3.0 has been retained. for the brand. On the contrary, sales of the largest SUV Lincoln Navigator are doing well, growing by 32.9%.
As WardsAuto reports, the Lincoln brand - even if it is an image for Ford - is currently generating results that are not completely satisfactory.
This is also due to the transition that is underway at the level of the commercial network in the USA.
In 2021, Lincoln could count on 685 dealers, a number that dropped to 637 in 2022 and even lower (500 sales points) in 2023. Among these, approximately 60% had also chosen to sell electric vehicles, investing up to 900 thousand dollars for dealership.
But the slow growth rate of BEVs, and therefore also of plug-in hybrids, now seems to have supported the decision to concentrate the offer on a single ICE engine without electrification combined with a 10-speed automatic gearbox.
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