The 2025 Lincoln Aviator can easily be the modern take on the Town Car in an SUV body, making it easy to have the smooth ride and pure comfort desired.
The 2025 Lincoln Aviator gets a bold makeover with a fresh front-end design, a massive new touchscreen, and Lincoln’s BlueCruise hands-free driving tech. Powered by a twin-turbo V6 and loaded with luxury, this three-row SUV aims to blend classic comfort with modern innovation. But does it have what it takes to outshine rivals like the Audi Q7, Volvo XC90, and BMW X5? We break down everything you need to know about the updated Aviator—inside, outside, and behind the wheel.
Smooth, sensible, silky comfort
The Aviator is the SUV you want to drive when you’re looking for a great vehicle that is all about comfort. While other luxury SUVs focus on performance and apologize for being harsh and punishing, every Lincoln model is made to be purely comfortable. If your idea of luxury has nothing to do with how fast you can drive or how hard you can go through the corners, the Aviator can be the perfect SUV for you. It has a powerful engine and a relaxing luxury car interior to give you the experience you want to enjoy every day.
Upgrades give the Aviator a new look
Lincoln adds styling updates to the 2025 model, adding a fresh look in the front with a redesigned grille and new headlights. There are new lighting strips that flash with sequential animations when you approach the SUV with the key in your pocket. The same animations occur as you walk away and the vehicle locks. The Reserve and Black Label models have adaptive headlights that change the illumination based on speed and steering input.
The dashboard features a new 13.2-inch infotainment touchscreen and a 12.4-inch digital gauge cluster. This becomes the new Lincoln Digital Experience interface, which is the new infotainment system that is reportedly the fastest system yet offered by the brand. This new system has Google Maps and Google voice assistant.
Exclusively for the Black Label
The Black Label trim sits at the top of the 2025 Lincoln Aviator model lineup and it receive some fancy new features. You’ll see a new design theme called Invitation and an optional Special Edition package that blacks out the exterior trim and adds a black-painted roof. You’ll also enjoy 22-inch Ebony Black wheels at this trim, giving you the largest and most attractive wheels every put under the Aviator.
The only powertrain you need
When you want a powerful SUV, the Aviator is a good choice. It has 400 horsepower and 415 lb-ft of torque on tap in every trim, giving you the desired power and performance wherever you drive. This power comes from an amazing 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine that’s mated to a smooth-shifting 10-speed automatic transmission.
The Aviator’s suspension is plush, agreeable, and exactly what you expect to find in a modern Lincoln. This system allows the Aviator to be predictable and stable through the corners while soaking up road imperfections to give you the smooth and silky ride for which you’ve been searching.
Is the Aviator efficient?
The 2025 Lincoln Aviator is much more efficient than previous models that came with a much larger engine. This new model can give you 18 city/26 hwy mpg in RWD models and 17 city/24 hwy mpg in AWD versions. These numbers put the Aviator behind most other AWD competitors, but that might not be a big issue for most drivers.
How will your cabin look?
This Lincoln SUV can be set up in either six or seven-seat configurations. You can have second-row captain’s chairs and choose one of two center consoles to fit between the center seats. One console makes it easier to pass through to the rearmost seats than the other. The rearmost seats are small and suitable mostly for children or only for short drives across town.
The front seats are where you find the most comfort, with the Perfect Position seats that have 30-way adjustment and massaging functions.
Which Aviator should you buy?
The 2025 Lincoln Aviator comes in some compelling trims, inkling the top-end Black Label. Every trim can be had with the BlueCruise hands-free highway driving assistant. The sweet spot of this SUV is the mid-level Reserve trim. This model has the luxury trappings that most buyers desire without being too pricey for most shoppers. You’ll enjoy the benefits of quad-zone climate controls, a 360-degree camera system, a panoramic sunroof, and a 14-speaker sound system in the Reserve trim.
