After my wife and I have looked at videos of it instead of photos and seen the ext and int colors on the navigator main page, I have my thoughts:
The exterior is gorgeous sans the rear. I do like it, but It's a bit too bulbous to me, and I wish it was closer to the nautilus. My wife loves it however. I love all the wheel options, my wife and I adore the copper wheels, but I also love the jet wheel. Unfortunately, there's no real world view of the reserve 22in wheel, only pics. The
caddy got uglier in my opinion with its front end, but gm nailed the rear. The infiniti is a close second, with the better rear end than the nav, but not as pretty and worse wheels. The lwb version also doesn't look as well proportioned as it currently is.
The interior is still the best in segment in terms of aesthetic, quality, and purported comfort. Watching the interior vid walk through back to back, the
caddy is a bit too haphazard and over wrought design wise. The nav is more simple and cohesive. Also, I still see too much gm-ism in the
caddy as well. I also think the full length screen is better integrated in the lincoln than
caddy. The caddys is closer to the driver, and the extra height is lower in the cowl, which means more eye movement than lincolns set up. Also, the central screen, though better placed in the
caddy, is better integrated than in the lincoln. The second row also seems more comfy in the bl nav than the
caddy though the
caddy has more features back there.
Caddy still has more tech, but I wouldn't use any features but the digital rear view mirror (my dads
caddy has the ar front view but not a fan of it, but love the digital rearview). Hopefulli, they fixed the interior noise issue. I adore the 40-20-40 3rd row seat, and the split tailgate gate to me has more pluses than minuses in terms of family and utility usage.
Disappointed no hybrid announcement, as that would've def been a convo starter, but the engine is already good. No air suspension is still head scratching, and to say they thought about it but didn't add it is bogus. Just rear airbags would've been good, particularlyfor towing. Even then, no mention of them even touching the ride comfort in terms of nvh or frame strengthening is alarming. However, many coil sprung vehicles ride better than some air sprung vehicles, so there's still hope. They are probably still testing it anyway. From what I read, the new infiniti doesn't ride as well as the current nav. As long as it rides better than an lx600 and on par with the gw, I'll be satisfied.
I like the truck alot, and though lincoln didn't do everything i wanted, it's still competitive. It looks great and the interior shows well. No red paint, sad. Can't get the chocolate interior with the jet pkg, more sad. The jet pkg is my fave look. And the new silver blue is gorgeous. Strong attempt lincoln, now let's see what ford does with the expy.