

It produces 250 horsepower and is paired up with an eight-speed automatic transmission. The Corsair's standard engine is the same 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine that's optional in the merely Ford Escape. Hands-free driving tech arguably encourages eyes-off-the-road driving. Hybrid uses only slightly less gas than the standard model. Much more expensive than the Escape it's based on. Lots of cargo room versus a car the same size. Plug-in hybrid option allows electric-only operation without being tethered to a power cord. The previously available 2.3-liter turbocharged engine has been dropped, making the plug-in powertrain the Corsair's strongest powertrain. The Corsair gets a styling refresh as well as larger 12.3-inch LCD main instrument panel and an even larger 13.2-inch, Tesla-like secondary infotainment screen. The top-of-the-line Grand Touring comes with the plug-in hybrid powertrain and a full-length panorama sunroof, among other upgrades. AWD can be added as a stand-alone option. Prices start at $38,690 for the Standard trim with front-wheel drive. In addition, the Corsair is available with an adaptive suspension system that's not available with the Escape and a new self-driving system Lincoln calls ActiveGlide. The Corsair is a compact-size luxury crossover SUV based on the Ford Escape.īeing a Lincoln rather than a Ford, the Corsair comes standard with the Escape's top-of-the-line 250 horsepower engine and offers a stronger plug-hybrid powertrain that enables the Corsair to travel about 28 miles (at normal road speeds) on battery-electric power alone. It offers some other things you might be interested in as well. But it does have about four times as much cargo-carrying capacity as a car the same size.

An SUV or crossover always has more cargo room than a car of the same length, and often more room for passengers, too, in the form of an often available and sometimes standard third row of seats. SUVs and crossovers (which are basically light-duty SUVs built on car-type platforms) offer more for the money, literally. Lincoln is now Ford's luxury SUV division, embodying a general trend away from cars that's become a kind of SUV tsunami. Lincoln - Ford's luxury car division - no longer sells cars at all.
