2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Reserve Review - Makes Me Want A Fusion - With the thumb of your left hand, scroll controls on the steering wh...
With the thumb of your left hand, scroll controls on the steering wheel and select Settings. Move up to Driver Assist. Go to command training. Then select Comfort.
Now your 2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Reserve is a good old fashioned barge of an American car, with ample rear end of the float to make seasick pregnant women. Strengthen? Far from there. This dip in the floor there is a half-mile is always behind the belly of rear occupants rocking MKZ as attempts to locate his balance.
Pair This menu selection with a prod of the Eco button to the right of the central touchscreen and you now have a modern Lincoln which ignores most of the input time of the gas runs with remarkable lightness and turns the potholes in the pillows. This sounds like the perfect Lincoln for a clientele that has all but gone extinct.
Fortunately, the refreshed MKZ Hybrid does not need to be driven in comfort / Eco mode. In fact, the 2017 MKZ is at his best when, as is often the case, the Lincoln MKZ helps to manifest Ford Fusion deep roots.
So why not buy a Ford Fusion instead?
There are some good reasons. Pre-refresh, the second generation MKZ (originally known as the Zephyr in the first-gen form) was easily criticized for an interior that was some high intent signs range outside unnecessarily complicated controls. In terms of the latter, Lincoln has remedied this problem with an array of simple buttons for climate control and Ford sensitive, if not grandiose, SYNC3. (You will still need to delve into the deep menus with steering wheel controls for Drive Control and the parameters of the advanced security system, however.)
As to old complaint, the quality of materials, particularly through the center console, improved significantly. Gone are the dull gray of the previous car, anti-plastic fantastic. There are soft bits and pieces of metal in all the right places. (But do not expect Lexus build quality levels. In hard right turn, the lid of the cup holder in the center console in our hybrid tester MKZ would flip open)
SILVER
for those who are willing to pay much more than they would or could a merger, the MKZ can also be optioned up as a truly luxurious car.
in addition to US market $ 35,935 base price of 2017 MKZ Hybrid, spend another $ 4,500 to reserve the plate, $ 4,400 for a deluxe package with a 20 speaker audio system Revel speakers, $ 2.395 on a technology package filled with active safety kit, $ 2.995 for a large panoramic glass roof, $ 595 for special 19-inch wheels, and $ 595 on hugely multi-Contour seats adjustable massage.
In this case, the $ 50.820 2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid is not just a Ford Fusion by another name.
However, in a dramatic era equipped Kia Sportages, high-tech features and abundant levels of active safety technology are not enough to provide convincing arguments to luxury status.
luxury QUIET
Even under throttle, 2.0 liter 2017 MKZ Hybrid is often a raucous partner. Lincoln said the majors now quiet luxury brand, and that may be true in other MKZs or the new Continental but quiet this hybrid is not.
Accelerating uphill on a road on the exit ramp, the MKZ Hybrid doesn 't have feel underpowered, but your right foot instinctively held back to avoid soliciting intrusive droning . If the carpool duty means there Lexus owners ES300h in the back seat of your MKZ, you will be embarrassed.
There are hybrid dividends, of course. Our first week with a Lincoln MKZ Hybrid in March 2014 resulted in a fuel economy readings 45 miles per gallon. With air conditioning cranked this week, the 2017 MKZ reached an impressive 39 mpg. Remember, Lincoln is not asking hybrid buyers to pay more. The only gas turbocharged 2.0-liter is sold with the same base price $ 35,935.
Aside from the sometimes noisy powertrain, there are other niggling issues that cause the MKZ feel insufficiently Lincoln -ized . The rear seat is not expansive, the rear penetration is awkward, and the central bulge is intrusive. All of this extra hybrid gear 28 restricted trunk volume percent compared to the regular MKZ. The cooled roar positively seats in use. robotic massage therapist Lincoln is not nearly as good at his job as an active designer bolster. The version of Ford Lane Keeping assist lack of intelligence, but is full of enthusiasm, regardless of the setting of force. center stack mounted Lincoln "shifter" tries hard to be different, but managed to hinder and stand out because of the texture and cheap operation. The Revel premium audio system seems really, but do not produce much volume.
And why is that the grid so sad?
FOUNDATIONS
But there are solid fusion of color, and it's certainly not a bad thing. Outside the Comfort and Eco modes and away periodic severe impacts Sport mode, 2017 Lincoln MKZ remember how full point of Euro flair Ford Fusion really is. Lively, well-weighted steering mixes with a chassis that never tries hard to be sporty. It is fair and balanced and communicative capable of more than you are likely to never ask
It would be easy for a writer of automobile, who does not dream of spending 50,820 $ on a midsize sedan that makes me look older than my father, to draw attention to the intrinsic value of the foundation of the Ford Fusion MKZ. But that is not what is happening here. I have no problem to appreciate the merits of sedans much higher price than MKZ, if they are based on the regular transportation or anything else wipers with auto proletarian share.
The 2017 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid is not just a great car $ 50.820 - modernization of equipment and extensive chrome do not hide the fact that continued fine-tuning is needed to make the MKZ a viable car high dollar
Many, perhaps all, of the defects would MKZ. nevertheless be easily overlooked at $ 37,895, the price at which a 2017 Ford Fusion Hybrid Platinum has, largely, as this very MKZ Hybrid.
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Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net , who is obsessed with the free publication and frequent US and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow us on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and Facebook .
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