2015 Lincoln MKC 2.3 Ecoboost

Lincoln has been alive to get their affluence mojo aback for a while, but up to this point it has approved to advertise models a half-step beyond to affluence shoppers used cars dealer Dubai. That meant a above amount proposition, but engineers about skimped on affluence to accumulate prices low. The MKC is an absolutely altered beastly however. This Lincoln is about the aforementioned admeasurement as the Lexus NX and Mercedes GLK. Although the MKC is assuredly the aforementioned admeasurement as its competition, it marches to a altered drummer, and afterwards a anniversary I assuredly accomplished something. It’s auspicious to accept something different.

Exterior
Let’s allocution antagonism first. The MKC is Lincoln’s acknowledgment to the X3, Q5, NX, XC60, and GLK. This seems to abash some association who accept the MKC and the Lexus NX were advised to attack adjoin the X1 and Evoque. Looking at the specs, the MKC sits adapted amid the GLK and Q5 in all-embracing dimensions.

By now you’ve apparently heard the MKC is the “Lincoln Escape”, but what does that absolutely mean? The MKC shares assurance systems and physique anatomy designs with the Escape. However, it shares no sheetmetal with the Ford. Lincoln didn’t just re-skin the Escape, either. They widened the physique and the clue while they were at it, consistent in a lower, added attitude that’s added adapted in the affluence articulation than the alive cocked appearance of the Escape. This is about the aforementioned blueprint that Lexus acclimated to accomplish the Lexus NX, which is a accessory to the RAV4. Like the NX and RAV4, locations of the Escape lurk central the MKC, but you accept to attending adequately harder to acquisition them.

The MKC receives Lincoln’s latest grille design, which is added aseptic than the MKT’s odd-looking schnoz. Although pictures of the MKC assume polarizing, passers-by anticipation the MKC was adorable in person. If you anticipate something about the rear looks a hair unfinished, you’re not alone. It’s the abridgement of a bulging bonanza of any sort. Aside from the amateurish aesthetic, defective any absolute bonanza agency mishaps with taller cars are acceptable to accident the rear bear in accession to the bonanza cover, accretion adjustment costs.

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Interior
The MKC wears the best autogenous Lincoln has anytime created. Period. Added than that, the archetypal with absolute covering is arguably a nicer abode to absorb your time than the accepted Q5, GLK, QX50, RDX, or XC60. Opt for the Black Label amalgamation and things are taken to the next level. Lincoln shoppers accept added adeptness to adapt their crossover than a lot of of the antagonism with four altered upholstery colors that alike with three altered dashboard and aperture colors and two copse appearance options (you can’t mix and match). Opting for the Black Label copy gives you an added four “themes” to accept from. If you wish this affectionate of selection, the MKC and Evoque are absolutely your alone options, and the Ambit Rover doesn’t acquiesce as abundant customization on abject models.

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Front bench abundance depends abundantly on your physique shape. I’m 6-feet alpine and begin the bench basal cushions abnormally abbreviate and abridgement thigh support. A 5-foot 4-inch alpine accepting told me the seats fit like a glove. Admitting accepting abate than all but the Mercedes GLK, the rear seats accepted adequate and calmly as all-around as the XC60.
The burden breadth is the better accommodation in the BMW used car. It’s conspicuously abate than a lot of of the antagonism with just 25 cubes of allowance abaft the rear seats. You’ll acquisition about 20 percent added allowance in the Volvo.

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Infotainment
MyLincoln Touch is abnormally called for sure, and it’s accustomed added than its allotment of bad press. Does it blast now and then? Sure. But I in fact anticipate MLT is a acumen to put the MKC on your list, not yield it off. Volvo’s Sensus Connect uses a abate awning and, admitting the new affiliated features, still lacks appropriate ascendancy of iOS/USB media devices. Audi’s MMI and Mercedes COMAND are adorable systems, but abridgement the articulation command library you get in the Lincoln. iDrive is still my adopted infotainment option, but Lincoln may accord it appear antagonism with SYNC3, due out next year.

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Drivetrain
Under the hood, the adjustment area starts out with a 2.0L direct-injection turbo engine acceptable for 240 application and 270 lb-ft of torque. Instead of a 6-cylinder engine bushing out the top of the ambit like the Europeans, Lincoln autonomous to borrow the 2.3L turbo from the new Mustang instead. 5 years ago, that would accept been derided as insane, but Lexus has gone 4-cylinder alone in the new NX and Volvo has committed to the annihilation of their 5 and six butt turbos as well. Sadly, the 2.3L engine loses some balance in the translation, bottomward from 310 application and 320 lb-ft in the Mustang to 285 ponies and 305 lb-ft of twist. 2.0L shoppers can accept amid front- or all-wheel drive while the 2.3L archetypal gets all-wheel drive as standard.

Both engines are akin to the 6F35 6-speed automated transaxle. The 6F35 transaxle is acceptable the acumen for the ability abridgement from the tune acclimated in the Mustang. Although Ford does not accurately account torque capabilities like General Motors, the Ford 6F35 is about agnate to the GM 6T50 transaxle, topping out at 260 lb-ft. (GM and Ford advised their 6-speed transaxles together.) Back the engine cradle architecture in the MKC is abundantly banausic from the Escape, the college torque accommodation 6F50 and 6F55 transaxles acceptable didn’t fit. In adjustment to board the 2.3L engine, Ford replaced the 6F35’s accepted torque advocate with a college torque assemblage but no manual internals were changed. This accustomed the absolute amalgamation to accept about the aforementioned ambit as the 2.0L drivetrain. I doubtable this aswell explains why the best tow appraisement drops 1,000lbs if able with the 2.3L engine.

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Drive
In an absorbing twist, a lot of MKCs on banker lots will accept a abeyance with alive dampers. This is a cogent aberration amid the Lincoln and the antagonism which about doesn’t accept alive dampers accessible at any price. This agency we accept to accept a quick abeyance assignment back alive dampers are a huge allotment of the MKC’s personality.

Springs and dampers plan calm to accomplish a car ride and handle a assertive way. Springs abutment the vehicle’s ride acme and abbreviate and backlash to accommodate to the alley surface. Dampers ascendancy the movement of the bounce in both directions. Bounce and damping ante are anxiously akin by car engineers and in a lot of cars they are fixed. In cars with activating dampers, the bounce amount stays connected and the damping amount becomes a variable. In adjustment for this to work, you accept to alpha with a “soft” bounce and if you wish a firmer ride you attack to atone with “firmer” damping. While systems like this abundantly advance the ride and acquiesce the disciplinarian to adapt the abeyance aural a accurate range, they can feel absolutely different.

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The aboriginal adumbration Lincoln had a altered mission in apperception for the MKC is accessible if you alpha driving. If the abeyance is in abundance mode, you get the softest ride in this articulation by a mile. The MKC is so bendable in this approach that I initially affected the babyish Lincoln was 1,000lbs heavier. With the abeyance in accustomed mode, the MKC feels added buttoned down, but there is still affluence of tip and dive and physique roll. “Sport” firms things up but the activity isn’t the aforementioned as you’d acquisition in a commonly sprung vehicle. The acumen is that although the dampers can bind motion, the springs are still pillowy soft.

Initially I was annoyed by the bendable abeyance and affected the able-bodied abilities would be afflicted as a result. I was wrong. With a 0-60 dart of 6.15 seconds, the MKC 2.3L beats a lot of of the entries, matches the 325 hp XC60 R-Design and alone lags the X3 xDrive35i and RDX in the non-performance category. It aswell chock-full from 60 MPH in an absorbing 112 anxiety in our tests and a admirable .83Gs in Edmund’s skidpad test. (TTAC doesn’t accept admission to a skidpad.) That’s all accessible because the MKC is ablaze for a affluence crossover, alignment from 3,791 in FWD 2.0L trim to to 3,989 lbs in the AWD 2.3L model.

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Pricing
As you’d apprehend from Lincoln, appraisement starts low at $33,100, undercutting BMW by over $5,000, and we get about $500 of added accessories in the abject MKC. Adding AWD to the abject archetypal tacks on $2,495. That sounds abrupt but Lincoln bundles the activating abeyance and a few added aliment with it. Our 2.3L AWD tester started at $40,145 and had $7,775 of options added to accomplish an about absolutely loaded MKC.

The Black Label archetypal is an absorbing option. Black Label is about affluence and customization, not performance. This agency you can get the 2.0L engine with foreground caster drive in Black Label trim starting at $46,205. For the added dosh, a “shopping assistant” will advice you accept from four altered autogenous themes, 5 altered copse veneers and some added acrylic options. The autogenous is added upgraded with faux-suede headliners and added accepted features. In accession to the goodies, you get bigger account with appointed aliment and abrasion account advantage (shocks, belts, etc), a loaner car if castigation is in for service, lifetime car washes at a Lincoln banker and anniversary account services.

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I accept to accept if I aboriginal took the MKC out on the road, I didn’t like it. The comfortable autogenous is attractive, but the ultra-plush active dynamics took some accepting acclimated to. Again an odd affair happened. A acquaintance of abundance who is in her aboriginal 30s said “I’m annoyed of the acrid ride in my X3 but I still wish a crossover.” I had her drive the MKC and it was adulation at aboriginal tip and dive. I al of a sudden realized: from the Lexus NX to the Mercedes GLK, every one of the antagonism is aggravating to be the soft-roader that can lap the Nurburgring in beneath 9 minutes. Except the MKC.
The Lincoln can adhere with the average of the backpack in agreement of handling, but the administration feel is an absolutely altered matter. The bendable abeyance makes turn-in feel lazy, council feel non-existent and the berth hushed. The aggregate agency the MKC is conspicuously able with top limits, but the architecture of the car makes it harder to actuate area those banned are located. If that sounds like the affectionate of artefact Lexus acclimated to be accepted for (before they too started block BMW), you’re right. Once I chock-full block the X3, I accomplished how auspicious it was to accept a aggressive artefact after the “me-too.” Bravo Lincoln.