In the American premium corner of autoland, electrification is also taking hold. GM’s Cadillac has big plans, but Ford’s Lincoln isn’t sitting still either. The brand wants to show the first fully electric model around its 100th birthday.
The electric Lincoln also comes into the picture, but we don’t get much further than ‘a Lincoln’ with a continuous LED strip. ‘Embrace Lighting’, Lincoln calls that fashionable strip, or ’embrace lighting’. That cuts wood. A short clearing session in Photoshop yields a typical Lincoln front, including the signature grille. In this case, however, it seems closed, just like the grille-like shape on the Mustang Mach-E.
No coincidence, because there is a good chance that this electric Lincoln is based on that Mustang. Ford previously announced that the Mach-E will have a Lincoln brother and that is of course just very logical. The technical basis is already there, a relatively compact SUV fits perfectly in Lincoln’s line-up and so the chic Ford brother can easily get his first EV. However, the Lincoln will have its own body, as is the case with copies powered by a fuel engine.
The first electric Lincoln will hit the market next year. Appropriate, because then the brand also celebrates its hundredth anniversary.
Lincoln also provides a glimpse into a future interior concept, although that living room-like whole still seems like real future music. The colored image in particular clearly belongs to a largely autonomously driving car and there is also concrete news to report in this area. Lincoln promises that it will soon launch Lincoln ActiveGlide. That is a far-reaching ‘hands-free’ driving assistant that is undoubtedly intended to respond to Cadillac’s highly regarded SuperCruise.