Vehicle
Lincoln Aviator
Two Explorer-based SUVs under one name, fifteen years apart. The 2020-onward Aviator is the three-row SUV on Ford's rear-drive Explorer platform, offered as a plug-in hybrid — which puts the hybrid and charging code blocks on a nameplate whose petrol version has none of them — and its air suspension reads the road ahead with a camera, so a ride-height complaint can start at a sensor that is not on the suspension at all. The 2003-2005 Aviator is the earlier Explorer's platform with the 4.6 InTech V8, and its faults are that truck's faults throughout.
Generations
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First generation (U152) 2003–2005
The Explorer-based Aviator, and a different vehicle from the 2020 rear-drive car that revived the name — its faults are Explorer faults.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Ford U1
- Engines
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- 4.6 V8 — INTECH · petrol · 225 kW (302 hp) · 407 Nm (300 lb-ft) · InTech DOHC
- Transmissions
- 5-speed 5R55S overdrive automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · All-wheel drive
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Second generation 2019–present
On Ford's rear-drive Explorer platform, with a plug-in hybrid; the air suspension reads the road with a camera, which is an input no conventional suspension diagnosis expects.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Ford CD6
- Engines
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- 3.0 twin-turbo V6 — NANO · petrol
- 3.0 twin-turbo V6 PHEV — NANO · plug-in hybrid · Grand Touring
- Transmissions
- 10-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
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