Lincoln Navigator review

Prices for the Lincoln Navigator start at a mere $99,995 but can get to around $120,000 with little effort. The option list for the new Navigator can be a bit of a rabbit hole, with the models offering different themes, particularly when we get to the Black Label versions. These essentially are more upscale trims with even more opulent additions for interior and now the exterior.

Two new themes – ‘enlighten’ and ‘atmospheric’ – include warm horizon leather, espresso carpeting and etched birch wood accents or a salt crystal gray headliner, radiant copper accents respectively.

The Navigator comes in six versions, starting with the base Reserve and the Reserve-L, which is the long wheelbase version. Next up are the same models but with the Jet Appearance package which swaps most of the brightwork and alloys for blacked-out elements. That’s four. The last two are Black Label versions of the standard and LWB cars.

If it were our money on the barrel, the Navigator that stands out the most is the standard-length Black Label with the new ‘enlighten’ theme. To start, the SUV is large enough as it is, so no LWB needed. This particular package nets you the sunrise copper exterior, 22-inch ebony aluminum wheels, and all the gadgetry you could ask for like the 360-degree camera and the Lincoln digital experience.

If we could change one specific thing, it would be to swap out the built-up captain’s chairs in the second row for the hum-drum regular ones included in the base Reserve model. Sure you lose the big center console and massage functions, but it’d be worth it just to not feel smothered.