The 2025 Lincoln Navigator will get a dramatic new look and higher levels of interior detailing, luxury and technology when a new version of the big luxury SUV arrives next spring

Lincoln dealers will start taking orders for the 2025 Navigator in October. Lincoln dropped a first commercial narrated by Matthew Matthew McConaughey today.

The updated Navigator features full width light bars front and rear and lots of new sheet metal, including front and rear fenders, hood and tailgate.

The Navigator’s running gear is essentially unchanged – standard all-wheel drive, 3.5L twin-turbo V6 and 10-speed automatic transmission – but a new infotainment system delivers a 48-inch wide display and Google navigation and voice recognition.

The radical new display – which stretches nearly from door to door – is off-putting at first glance, but I got used to it quickly driving the smaller Lincoln Nautilus, which introduced the feature earlier this year.

The latest version of Lincoln’s Blue Cruise hands free driving system will deliver improved lane centering.

The 2025 Navigator drops the base Premiere trim level. That leaves only Reserve and Black label.

Lincoln will announce prices shortly, but expected them to begin around $100,000, just above the 2024 Navigator Reserve’s starting point.

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2025 Lincoln Navigator trim levels

• Reserve

• Black Label

Reimagining the dashboard

The wide, high-res display runs along the bottom of the windscreen and includes the instrument cluster, navigation, audio and other information. It also functions as a video or gaming display when the Navigator is parked.

The screen is the same size as display in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, but the wider Navigator leaves room for audio speakers between the screen and front doors.

The wildly new proportions allowed Lincoln to rethink the whole front of the cabin. The dash is lower and wider front to rear and the steering wheel was reshaped into a “squircle” – a flattened circle – to provide a clear view of the four-inch tall screen at the base of the windshield. The squircle evokes incongruous but not unwelcome echoes of race car and aircraft controls in the big SUV. It also has a pair of capacitive pads to control hands-free driving, cruise control and more.

The result is an spacious cockpit with expansive sight lines and a small center stack that has room for an 11.1-inch touch screen, but not many other controls.

That led Lincoln to eliminate physical buttons and switches for climate and all audio controls save a big crystal volume dial in the center console.