This is most likely a belated response from Lincoln to Cadillac’s all-out attack on the American car market. The Navigator 2025 completes the automaker’s product range in the North American region, which consists exclusively of CUVs and SUVs.

Let’s think about these two fierce enemies for a moment. Cadillac has a refreshed CT5 series, complete with the regular four-door midsize luxury sedan, the updated CT5-V model and the improved high-performance CT5-V Blackwing. In addition, the 2025 Optiq has been announced as the smallest EV Crossover to date, followed by the upcoming 2025MY list of the refreshed Escalade – consisting of the regular ICEmodels (including Escalade-V and long-wheelbase models), as well as the first all-electric Escalade IQ. But wait, there’s more – there’s also a family-oriented Vistiq with three rows of seats (2026) Off-road vehicle in the pipeline.

Lincoln is fighting this all-out assault with very few weapons – the small Corsair was last redesigned for the 2023 model year, the second-generation 2024 Lincoln Nautilus is now imported from China, and the second version of the Aviator was redesigned for the 2025 model year but lost the eco-conscious plug-in hybrid Grand Touring trim in the process. Hopefully the fifth-generation full-size Navigator – which some say is just a heavily redesigned fourth version – will have the power to save the day. But what if it doesn’t?

Don’t worry, because the parallel universes of vehicle CGI always find a solution with the help of the imaginative world of digital car content creators. More specifically, Vince Burlapp (aka Subscribe on social media or at burlappcar.com) is a prolific virtual artist who loves to dream about the latest models in the vast automotive world, and he has a great passion for the three big Detroit automakers – especially their luxury divisions such as Cadillac or Lincoln, among others.

This time he’s back with another unofficial, hypothetical design project based on the unlikely revival of the large Lincoln Town Car “land yacht.” The original appeared in 1980 (before that it was a top-trim option for the Continental), with the nameplate paying homage to the sedan body of the same name, and was marketed against rival luxury sedans from Cadillac or Chrysler for no less than thirty model years (1981 to 2011) across three generations.

If this idea were to become a reality today, the fourth-generation Lincoln Town Car would likely need both hybrid and electric powertrains to compete with vehicles like Mercedes-Benz’s S-Class or the EQS Maybach and Cadillac’s Celestiq. Unfortunately, the outlook is not too optimistic – Ford recently announced that they have discontinued the all-electric SUV with three rows of seats. So there would be no suitable platform for Lincoln’s return to large and luxurious sedans, right?