While the 2025 Lincoln Navigator' sales trails the top-selling Cadillac Escalade, it was the 1998 Lincoln Navigator that revived the idea of a full-size, body-on-frame luxury SUV, a segment pioneered by the 1966 Jeep Super Wagoneer. And for 2025, the Lincoln Navigator continues to live large in a way that recalls the Lincoln Town Car.

Oops. There, I said it.

The phrase that makes Lincoln executives' eyes roll. And yet, the 2025 Lincoln Navigator fulfills much the same role. Both are unapologetically sizable, body-on-frame luxury vehicles with a healthy dose of chrome flashiness and outsized extravagance. And the Navigator, like the Town Car, benefits from being comfortable in its own skin. It's above hip and trendy, reveling in a knowing American opulence.

Yet this is not just some retr

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