![]() ![]() The touch screen is broken up into 4 quadrants when you are on the home page, and gives you a high level display of the four following items: GPS, Audio, Climate and Telephone. Trust me, for someone who really likes technology, I fell in love with the fact that I could fully control an amazing amount of aspects of the car, quickly and fairly easily. Like many Lincolns (and Fords), the MKX came equipped with the MyLincoln Touch which is a 8″ touchscreen LCD console on the dashboard. After a few hours on the road and letting the Lincoln slow down and speed up for me automatically, I relaxed a lot more and really enjoyed the ride. I found this feature to be a lot of fun to “play with” but was a bit cautious initially because I just wasn’t too sure at how well it would work. ![]() When the car ahead speeds up, the Lincoln cruises back up to the speed that you had set. The really neat thing is, using radar sensors built in to the front of the car, the Lincoln senses if the car in front is slowing down, and consequently slows down to maintain the “padding”. With Lincoln’s version, you can set these paddings aggressively (close to the car in front of you) or much more relaxed (with a lot of space). With adaptive cruise control, you set two things, the speed you want to cruise at, and the amount of “padding” you want to have between the you and the car in front of you. After trying the adaptive cruise control, when you use the old fashioned version, you feel like your are stuck in the dark ages. In normal cruise control, you set the speed you want to drive at and then have to speed up or slow down based on the flow of the highway traffic, either using the buttons of your cruise control or using the gas and brake pedals. Essentially it is cruise control on steroids. If you are going on any type of road trip, this is probably one of the best features of the car. My Top Features of the Lincoln MKX Adaptive Cruise Control The Adaptive Cruise Control & Collision Warning System was an additional $1295. It included the Rapid Spec 102A Optional Package ($7500) which has many of the features that I liked below. The Fuel Economy was listed as 17 City and 23 Highway. The one that I test drove had a window sticker price of $51,135 and was the AWD version. But before I jump into my thoughts, here are a few quick specs about the Lincoln: So what I have compiled here are a list of the Lincoln’s features that I really liked and why, as well as a few items that I feel they still need to do some work on. It was because I wanted to instead really focus on the MyLincoln Touch aspect and all of the other technological features of the MKX. While last year I went into the SYNC technology, this year, with the Lincoln, I hardly used SYNC.This wasn’t because it didn’t work or I didn’t like it (quite the contrary, I think that SYNC is a great feature to have and I wouldn’t get a Ford or Lincoln without it). This year, the similarly equipped Lincoln, and by similar, I mean that it sported the Ford/Lincoln SYNC, kept my technology hunger pains away throughout the drive. Last year, my family and I had a lot of fun with the Ford Flex and you can see my reviews here and here. The MKX has all of the bells and whistles, and really appealed to my technology addiction…er….needs. We were supposed to get a Ford Edge, but there were none available so we were “upgraded” to the Lincoln which is essentially the “limousine” version of the Ford Edge, at least that is how I described it. Crossovers are not quite as large as a full-sized SUV but also, they are not as small as a sedan or hatchback. ![]() This year, Ford lent us a Lincoln MKX, which is a crossover SUV. And each year, the car that we used has impressed me and made me wish that I could get a new car every week to review. Each year thus far, we have driven from San Francisco to Los Angeles and back again. For the past two years, Ford Motors has graciously lent me a car to enjoy with my family during our vacation. It seems that I have started sort of an annual tradition every Spring Break. ![]()
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