The redesigned model of the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus crossover utility automobile is the most recent luxurious automobile to drop bigger engines and go hybrid as a substitute. 

Base variations of the Nautilus might be powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-4 engine making 250 hp and 275 lb-ft of torque, whereas a lot of the lineup will arrive in hybrid kind fairly than with the outgoing mannequin’s V-6. There, a 2.0-liter turbo-4 is a part of a hybrid system that can incorporate a 134-hp electrical motor system and altogether make 310 hp. 

As Lincoln verified to Inexperienced Automotive Studies, this can be a model of Ford’s acquainted planetary-gear-based hybrid system, as is used within the smaller Corsair and Ford Escape households—in addition to within the plug-in Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring and Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid. Within the Escape Hybrid, the system returns an EPA-rated 39 mpg mixed.

2024 Lincoln Nautilus hybrid Black Label

Regardless of its shuffle to hybrid energy, it’s cheap to peg a plug-in hybrid as far much less seemingly. That’s as a result of Ford is transferring Nautilus manufacturing to China, and it’ll import U.S. variations of the fashions from there—which means they would not just like the Aviator and Corsair PHEVs be eligible for the brand new Clear Car Credit score. 

Ford has confirmed that the Oakville, Ontario, plant the place the Nautilus and its associated Ford Edge are made at the moment might be revamped to make next-generation EVs beginning in 2024—though the corporate hasn’t confirmed which fashions that might be. 

The automaker in 2020 canceled what was to be a Rivian-based Lincoln electrical SUV that had been because of be the model’s first EV, however experiences recommend that the primary EV to come back from the Oakville plant might be a Lincoln luxurious electrical SUV in the identical vary because the Nautilus and Aviator. 

2024 Lincoln Nautilus hybrid Black Label

The Nautilus is about the identical size because the Lexus RX or the Cadillac Lyriq. It has an total size of 193.2 inches, a peak of 68.2 inches, and a width of 79.8 inches. It rides on a 114.2-inch wheelbase—a few inches longer than the present mannequin. All variations have struts in entrance and short-long-arm rear suspension with trailing arms. Hybrid variations additionally step as much as an adaptive suspension with steady damping that ought to assist present a mushy, remoted experience over a spread of surfaces.

An preliminary set of photographs confirmed few variations in design and styling between hybrid fashions and the others. The Nautilus appears boxy in silhouette however rounded and contoured up shut, with clear worship to—if not mimicry of—the Land Rover Vary Rover Sport. A Jet Look Package deal, bringing two-tone paint, shiny black 22-inch wheels, and anodized black exterior trim, plus copper aluminum appliques and accent stitching inside. A Redwood-forest-inspired Black Label theme brings a tree-inspired motif. 

The Nautilus contains wi-fi Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connectivity, Alexa Constructed-In, 28-speaker audio, a show display that spans the complete sprint, and a model of Ford’s BlueCruise driver help system together with assisted lane adjustments and revised lane positioning capacity. The model confirms it’s phasing out the ActiveGlide identify it beforehand gave this technique.

2024 Lincoln Nautilus hybrid Black Label

Lincoln says that this time across the Nautilus was designed for youthful, world prospects, with a so-called Lincoln Embrace together with lighting that flows from the middle display round to the door panels and “a wholly new sensory expertise that can immerse you in rejuvenating energy of sight, sound, contact and scent.” For the latter particularly, Lincoln factors to varied therapeutic massage choices accessible by means of the seats and three ranges of “curated digital scents,” utilizing three scent cartridges housed within the middle console.