rev up your engines this here is my brand new previously owned Lincoln aviator that's
right an aviator not navigator like most people assume it's a navigator now the
big difference is the aviator is based on the Ford Explorer where the
navigators based on the Ford Expedition now there besides the obvious size
difference this is somewhat shorter about six inches less height and so much
shorter and lean wheelbase there's some other major differences number one this
came factory standard with a standard coil over strut suspension
navigator on the other hand had air suspension and if you just google
anything about Lincoln Navigator air suspension you'll find that is the
main point of failure on all the old navigators
so this aviator has no such problems in fact this particular one I have seems to
work just perfectly I just picked it up I haven't had it more than a few days
it's beautiful it's been owned by only one other person
this poor guy spent $50,000 after-tax on it back in 2003 and I bought it for
pocket change so he lost pretty much all of his money thanks the depreciation and
I got a perfect vehicle owned by a single dude for 17 years this is a 2003
I'm filming this in 2019 and they're right now they're selling 2020 cars so
it's 17 years old and yet it works perfectly there's just nothing wrong
with it it's beautiful it's wrapped in black from the top up to kind of get
like that Range Rover s feel which is I think pretty cool it's got these keypads
here which is really neat because you can open it and open the doors if you
lock your keys inside you can never really get locked out of that as long as
you know they're the combination well the other thing that's pretty cool is
you hit the bottom two buttons this works better than all Ford based
vehicles it will lock all the doors so will it so you don't actually remove
your keys from the pocket to lock the doors back in the day before they made
cars with keyless entry yes it does still use a key it is a little
old-school in that department but the car is like 17 years old so you know
what do you expect it's pretty freakin big though it's got seven seats and even
with seven seats check out the mounted cargo space this
is a third row back here and there's plenty of space now if I put the third
row down it becomes cavernous and if I put the second row down I've had to 70
inch televisions in the back of this at the same time already for an SUV this is
quite a luxurious interior I gotta say it's very nice there's fake wood
everywhere and some of the wood is actually real so I understand I think
these are real those these little segments are real and the steering wheel
is were real but honestly you almost can't tell the fake wood from the real
wood they all kind of look the same mind you this is Lincoln this is not Jaguar
that's not like made out of some special wood that they get out of a forest
that's endangered or something crazy like that this is probably pine or
something polished to look like mahogany or something but still it's super
elegant inside you have ample ample ample storage space I mean straight up
there is storage and the doors up here storage down there storage in the center
like most vehicles that one happens have a power connector in there an additional
power connector in the ashtray as normal cars have and a third one in the back of
the console down there normal glove compartment nothing so
special there cup holders down here what it's big it's really really big it's got
space for everything there's actually door storage in the rear passengers as
well although they don't give you this one I don't know why they didn't give
you the door up here only the lower card storage I am 6 feet tall that's
approximately 182 centimeters I'm totally laying down in this vehicle
perfectly flat and there's enough space now mind you my head is on the headrest
so it is exactly 6 feet in length and if you had a rectangular something you'd
probably hit the back seats however this is quite admirable for cargo space you
could straight up sleep in here and just sort of hang out tailgate I mean you
could tailgate here and you could have a full size refrigerator sit here with
maybe a barbecue out the back and just totally hook up I mean this is crazy
this vehicle it's huge easily my favorite feature at his car is the seat
heaters and the seat coolers they blow with enormous
I've never felt the seat heater fan where it blows it through the seat where
you put your hand up here above your crotch essentially and you get this you
can actually feel the air emanating out of the seat it's like literally they put
some super high-powered fan inside these seats to get the air circulating out
it's amazing sometimes you're sitting there and your hand is on the steering
wheel in the lower portion and you just feel air emanating out the bottom of the
deceit it's crazy enjoyable when it's a cold day and you
just get this warmth coming out oh my god
it's one to fall I don't know why all cars don't put really powerful fans in
the seat heaters to come out the perforations in the seats this one does
it I love it I never felt another car that does it though they really all
should
4.6 liter 300 horsepower v8 power man it's awesome it's big and it's covered
by plastic so there is a really much to see here but when you put your hand
right over here that gap between the radiator and the engine block wow that's
a lot of air coming out of that thing feels like like it's a heater blowing
hot air up on you you could cook eggs on this engine real quick it's running warm
the temperature gauge on the inside says it's by design it's with inspector where
it's supposed to be waiting terrier lights up on this car is probably most
beautiful aspect of it everything has this nice white glow to everything these
ligh LED lighting just comes on and it just it makes you feel like you're in a
really nice luxury vehicle but yet it's a 300 horsepower workhorse this thing is
phenomenal I am right now in the third row of my Lincoln aviator look at this I
got plenty of legroom I'm not even small at all there's ample
room for another passenger beside me there's big huge farm rests with cup
holders that have wood around them this is incredible this is the back seat I'm
not cramped in the slightest look at this this is the hugest third row
backseat I've ever tried to get myself into most cars I can't even fit this one
is spacious if you have kids you can easily get three kids back here but
unfortunately only two seatbelts so I wouldn't advise that
but this is huge look at this man I love in this I mean the third row just so you
could see this is the back seat that's the front seat you legit can fit eight
people in here if there was a middle seat belt and the three people in the
back were small but seven people totally comfortable seven adults not seven kids
like some cars claim this is straight-up seven adults totally comfortable leather
seats actually I read that the third row is fake leather and the front two rows
are real leather but I see I can't tell the difference it looks like real
leather and they look exactly the same the third row in this in the back seat
row so it's a Lincoln it has all sorts of creature comforts that you'd expect
from a luxury car but it doesn't exactly compete with like European cars like the
Range Rovers however it does come close I mean you have automatic headlights
over there you have power seats with lumbar
controls and you got other cool creature comfort things like adjustable pedals
which I don't know I'm kind of big so I don't really need that but I guess short
people that would probably appreciate that and cool little touches like the
analog clock over here that's another one that's nice
it's got a trip computer over here and that's about it
one of the neat features on this particular SUV is that the rear seats on
either side but not the middle can actually recall it recline a few notches
and sort of get a lean back thing going on unfortunately the middle one doesn't
do that that is fixed in place but you do have a recline on the outer two seats
which is pretty nice and so once like sleep in the back but if you really want
to sleep you just kind of put the seats all the way down to the floor and the
rear ones come down and then there's actually a panel that goes between it
and you get a completely flat platform all the way to the rear of the vehicle
which is pretty much more than big enough for a big dude like me to sleep
comfortably I could probably throw a mattress in here and double and this
could double as I can overnight when you compare the Lincoln Navigator and the
Lincoln aviator there isn't a huge difference in size but the navigators a
few inches longer and a little bit of taller and that's about it
capacity inside is also obviously bigger than the Navigator but the aviator is
still huge so I don't know I love this it's big it's huge and it stores
everything I need and still fits in my garage unlike the Navigator which I
tried and doesn't fit in my garage
the dashboard is probably the coolest part of this car you don't actually see
any of the mechanism that holds the arrow the arms that fling back and forth
with the speedometer so it looks like just you have these like floating red
LED things now sometimes when the Sun is really bright you can't actually see the
arms that hold them that wasn't intended and you do realize that all this is is a
normal very bright dashboard with a tinted
material over it so you don't actually see anything below it other than the lit
up parts but it's really neat this is quite a fun car to drive I gotta admit
you're really high off the road you don't have to worry if you drive over
something like a pothole or something cuz nothing's gonna happen to the
vehicle it sort of takes whatever you throw at it and just runs with it like a
champ this thing can haul something like seven thousand pounds in towing you can
throw cargo in this well over one ton of cargo probably with no problem this
thing just holes you have it's like completely carefree and it isn't even a
slow vehicle that's the crazy thing about it this 300 horsepower v8 4.6
liter engine does something like the high 7s in zero to 60 time meaning zero
to 60 and seven points something now that may not be winning any land-speed
records but my god this thing is two and a half tons and it holds cargo and holds
seven passengers that's quite respectable I mean honestly if you can
do 0 to 60 in under 8 seconds in 200 with two and a half tons and maybe an
added ton of cargo you're doing really well especially the fact that this
vehicle is approaching 20 years old it's 17 as of today and it's in perfect shape
there's just nothing wrong with it let's talk a little about gas mileage shall we
if you care this is not the vehicle for you my other vehicle is a v12 bmw
they both get the same mileage this is a 4.6 liter v8 and they both get a little
under ten miles per gallon so if you care about gas mileage and I don't think
you should mind you but if you do this is not the vehicle for you now why do I
say you shouldn't care about gas mileage because the average driver drives 12,000
miles a year that means you're driving a vehicle that gets 10 miles per gallon
1,200 gallons of fuel per year which is about $3,600 here in new
ork now $3,600 a year may sound like a lot of money except that if you drove a
hybrid car that gets twice that kind of gas mileage or better you'd only be
saving about I don't know 1800 dollars a year now this is an old car that's
already depreciated the first owner ate up the entire cost of the depreciation
already I can probably sell this for close to what I paid for it
two three years from now if you bought a new car or a hybrid or anything else
that cost a lot it will depreciate much more than that 1800 a year that you save
on gas well that was this week's video and remember to have your car video
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