In China's auto market, no matter who has created high-end positioning products, they all want to compete with BBA, even if they do not take the initiative, consumers will carefully examine it together with the latter. After all, years of word-of-mouth and market accumulation have made BBA a luxury brand benchmark in people's minds, so are other brands really inferior to them? Actually, I don't think so.
On March 18, 2021, Lincoln officially launched a new mid-size SUV Navigator (picture | configuration | inquiry) (picture | configuration | inquiry) (picture | configuration | inquiry), as a positioned as a medium-sized SUV, the main sales in the range of 300,000-450,000 yuan of new cars, its emergence is undoubtedly directly in competition with Q5L, GLC, X3 and other cars.
So during the test drive of the Lincoln Navigator, I was always observing how the new car was different from the competitors, and it happened that during the process of shooting the vehicle, a passerby came up to us and talked.
He said that he was not the first time he had met the navigator, and he had recently ordered one, and he was an absolute prospective owner. And when he saw that we were filming the new car we were about to get, he couldn't help but want to come over and take a few looks.
For the appearance of this owner, in fact, it also aroused my curiosity, after all, the new car has only been on the market for less than two months, what kind of motivation did it choose the navigator?
When I asked a question, the prospective owner said, "I originally wanted to buy the Q5L, but when I saw the news that this voyager was listed, I thought the price was similar, so I went to the store to see it." After seeing the real car, it was found that its sense of refinement was much stronger than Q5L, especially sitting in the car, the sense of luxury was much higher, and the data of looking at the space and power was not bad, so I simply tasted it fresh, and I directly ordered it. ”
The sense of refinement is indeed a major advantage of the Lincoln Navigator, although in the level of creating a sense of luxury, other manufacturers also do everything to the extreme, but in contrast, I think Lincoln is still superior, and it extends the embodiment of the sense of refinement to multiple dimensions.
Unlike the popular pursuit of sports, the Lincoln Navigator I tested did not use chrome or blackened horizontal trim strips, but applied a more elegant dot matrix mid-net, under the sunlight, each metal point at the grille is like a star, by refracting the sunlight to make itself more radiant.
However, although the Lincoln Navigator's exterior design is different from that of its competitors, I am not willing to embellish it too much, because only when you sit in the car, you will feel that it is different from other vehicles in terms of refinement.
First of all, the seats, when I experienced lincoln navigators and pilots before, I was surprised by their multiple adjustments, because friends who have not been riding on the car are difficult to imagine that in addition to the massage ventilation heating and multiple adjustments, the leg rests at the cushion can also be adjusted separately from side to side, which not only allows people of normal shape to find a very comfortable sitting posture, even if your two thighs are not the same length and thickness, it can also provide you with enough support.
The Lincoln Navigator, on the other hand, used semi-aniline premium leather in the selection of seat materials, a leather fabric from North America that passed less than 10% in the screening process. That is to say, when selecting cowhide, for every 100 cows, only no more than 10 cows can pass the screening criteria, such a high standard brings the Lincoln Navigator's seat more to retain the natural pores of the leather surface, and the feeling of body fit is more delicate and comfortable than the ordinary leather seat.
In terms of seat angle adjustment, in addition to the regular leg rest function adjustment, the new car also adds a shoulder adjustment that is rare in the same class, in short, no matter what kind of body you are, you can find a comfortable sitting position that fits enough on its seat.
In such a riding environment, after starting the vehicle, the sense of tranquility brought by tranquility suddenly emerges.
You could say that a Mercedes-Benz S-Class has very good NVH control when driving, but for a million-dollar executive sedan, that's the way it should be. However, compared with cars, SUVs are inherently flawed in aerodynamic settings, but when driving a navigator to drive over 100km/h, you will find that its noise control is almost the same as that of a D-class executive sedan.
Wind noise, tire noise, engine compartment, chassis... Noise everywhere in the vehicle is kept within a very small threshold, and in order for the NVH standard to reach this level, as shown in the figure above, Lincoln did not slack off on any detail.
It's comfortable to sit, the space is free from the noise of interference, and what is most needed at this time is a music with good enough sound quality. To this end, lincoln navigators have paired Harman Kardon's high-end audio brand Ruiwei with 19 speakers to form a soundstage that will make you indulge.
And when you want to switch songs, you no longer need to tediously operate in the mobile phone interface, as long as you say the voice command or press the voice button, SYNC+ voice control system will wake up, immediately search for the name of the song you said to play. In addition, in addition to being able to achieve the above functions, SYNC+ also has a large number of commonly used APP such as navigation maps, and in terms of the accuracy and response speed of speech recognition, this system is the best intelligent network connection system I have ever used.
Finally, let's talk about the Navigator's power system, the Navigator I tested was equipped with a 2.7T V6 engine, this engine has 322 horsepower, 500 Nm peak torque, from the book data can be derived enough to be outstanding, with the 8-speed manual transmission, the achievement of breaking the 100 is only 6.48 seconds.
But what I want to express is not the Lincoln Navigator's strong acceleration performance, but the smoothness. The smooth output characteristics of the multi-cylinder V-engine have the background of the four-cylinder engine that is difficult to see, and after matching the 8-speed manual transmission, it fully expresses the sense of speed control at will. The driver can preset the speed increase of the vehicle through the throttle opening is very good, do not have to worry about the uncertainty of whether the vehicle will speed up too suddenly after stepping on the accelerator, the characteristics of this engine's natural advantages are the highlights of lincoln navigators, and it is also a slightly deficient side of many luxury brand SUV competitors.
Remember, the Lincoln brand always said "luxury, its own way", after experiencing the navigator, its exquisite sense of display, it is indeed difficult not to let people not revel in it. Driving such an SUV, driving on the winding coastline, is not it a blue tour, dare to look at the "suitable" world?