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this is the 2016 Lincoln MKX it's basically the Ford Edge platform but with a luxury spin and in a lot of ways it is Ford putting its best foot forward when it comes to comfort let's hop behind the wheel of this EcoBoost all-wheel drive example and see well exactly how good it is now the 2016 Lincoln MKX is available with a choice of two engines if you want more power you want the smaller of the engine that's this 2.7 liter EcoBoost v6 engine it puts out 335 horsepower and about 380 pound-feet of torque and you use premium fuel it also gets about 19 miles per gallon combined in about one extra mile per gallon in the city when compared to the larger engine that's about 17 miles per gallon there now that engine is paired with a 6-speed automatic transmission that has a sport mode and paddle shifters in this really weird very interesting push-button shifting mechanism there's no shift lever and no shift knob if you want to change directions or change gears use these buttons right here it's very cool it keeps things really sort of sleek and frees up a little bit of extra space right here for elbow room now that is going to be paired into this case with linking from all-wheel-drive system that's going to split power between all the wheels on demand now around town 335 horsepower is of course nothing to sniff at this car has pretty good pickup when you put it into sport mode and also we're riding on the Lincoln Drive adaptive suspension that's gonna help soak up some of those bumps now this particular example is also equipped with a Lincoln's Lane keep assist --nt system which you can activate with this sort of stop next to the steering wheel and that's going to actively work with the electronic power steering to keep the vehicle between the lane markers when you get above a certain speed we've also got a forward collision warning system that uses a fork facing camera and an adaptive cruise control system that will allow us to maintain a safe driving distance between the vehicle in front of us automatically when cruising on the highway now that adaptive cruise control system is not full speed it'll shut down at about 15 miles per hour so you can't use it to creep through traffic like you can with some other luxury vehicles and rounding out the equipped driver rate we've got a 360 camera system that gives sort of a bird's-eye view of the car and Ford Lincoln's automatic parallel and perpendicular parking system it's really cool and very easy to use now that's most of what Lincoln's done really well with the MK X but there's still a couple of spots that they fall short particularly right here in the center of the dashboard we've got the old generation of my Lincoln Touch which is a very subtle rescan of my Ford touch the problem that I have with the system is that it's just very laggy everything you do takes a couple of seconds to sort of render on screen going from the map screen to the radio or for the home screen to the map takes about two to three seconds for every button press to register and then render on the screen now we know that Ford has an improved version of sync 3.0 coming in to some of its vehicles so we think in a couple of model years we will definitely see a Lincoln branded version of that system in the MK X but if I were to end on a sweet note it would be with the sweet notes of the rebel ultima audio system we have in this vehicle now rebel is a name that we recognize from home theater system this is their first in-car system that they're working on with Lincoln and they've kind of put their best foot forward here and they've given us a really good really clear system now they're not a lot of bells and whistles here not a lot of 3d surround and digital signal processing tricks that you can access in the menus but the basic settings on this system are very clear very well staged and just very powerful I really enjoy what we got going on here our 2016 lincoln MKX EcoBoost all-wheel drive gets off the line at forty two thousand five hundred ninety five bucks at a nine hundred twenty five dollar destination charge at almost every option in the list to reach our fully loaded as mr. price of sixty thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars this is the best in luxury in tech that for has to offer but we know ford got some things better in the pipeline particularly where dashboard taken concern I'd recommend you wait a model year to see where it goes you