Lincoln Navigator- A Premium Vehicle

The First Generation of the Lincoln Navigator is built from 1997

Like other US auto companies put the designer Ford long time on a marketing strategy in which a plurality of mutually distinct brands were combined under the umbrella of a manufacturer. At Ford, the brand was Lincoln until the 1990s for luxury sedans like the Lincoln Town Car or Lincoln Continental. According to the still in the 1980s more rustic image that SUVs were in the US, Ford sold its trucks and pickups under the core brand with the blue oval and the company logo as a logo. When, however, from the typical Trucks for rural populations increasingly vehicles were at the same time with off-road capabilities and comfort of limousines and this as a sport utility vehicle (SUV) aroused the interest of urban buyer, even Ford switched to a different strategy and took pickups for its premium brand Lincoln and SUV on the program. The first was the Lincoln Navigator, which was first built in 1997.

 

The Lincoln Navigator is the First Ford SUV in its Premium Brand Before

For the Lincoln Navigator, the manufacturer used the technique of imported almost half a year before the luxury SUV Ford Expedition. With a wheelbase of just 3.00 meters and a length of about 5.20 meters equipped than the all-wheel or rear wheel drive Lincoln Navigator had the same dimensions as its sister model. In order to delineate the Lincoln Navigator of the designer upgrade preparing the interior, however, by the standards of customers from the premium brand Lincoln expected. Although the sharp formulation of classical US-roader that time was chosen for the design of the Navigator, you should at least but details make it clear that the Navigator was the Lincoln brand. These included the discreet front with narrow headlights and chrome grille louvre, was held at the well in the presented in 2003, the second generation.

 

V8 Engines for the Lincoln Navigator

Completely redesigned third generation of the Lincoln Navigator came from the Year 2007 in two different lengths, body styles. Design Decisive was now a powerful-looking front grille in high optical gratings, joined at which the designed in the same style air intakes in the front apron. The engines, the manufacturer had initially set to the V8 engine with 5.4 liters of displacement, which was built in the Ford Expedition and 170 kW (230 hp), made from 1999 then 220 kW (300 hp). In the third generation the car came with a V8 engine with a maximum of 231 kW (310 hp).

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