Lincoln, like almost every other luxury brand, is eyeing a totally electric future, and its latest concept car provides a sneak peek at what’s to come. The Lincoln Star is an electric luxury SUV that debuts the brand’s new Quiet Flight design language, which will be seen on three production EVs by 2025 and a fourth in 2026.
The Star is a crossover inspired by the Aviator, with a dramatic raked roofline, stunning surfacing, and distinctive proportions. It has a significantly shorter snout than Lincoln’s existing rear-wheel-drive SUVs, but a lengthy rear overhang, according to the company.
The back window and lower half of the hatch come to a sharp point. The front end of the Star has a revised Lincoln logo set inside a grille-less fascia with dozens of smaller, lit-up symbol shapes, topped by a slim light bar that wraps around the fenders with crosshatched lines that fade into the black borders of the see-through hood.
The eye-catching light effects don’t end there. The taillights are a continuous light bar, as they are on previous Lincoln models, but on the Star, the housing curves down at the edges, revealing more of the lattice design.
The rear Lincoln script is lit, and the hatch features the same front-end repeating emblem design. Lincoln logos are lighted on the front fenders, and each wheel arch has an LED strip that follows the contour of the opening.
The LIDAR sensors, door buttons, and mirror cameras all feature little lights, and the black roof has a light strip around the full edge where the roof meets the pillars.
The suicide doors made famous by the 1961 Continental are one of Lincoln’s most iconic design features, and the Star concept takes it a step further with one of the weirdest frunk and hatch arrangements I’ve ever seen.
The front fascia slides forward like a desk drawer, while the hood opens vertically up and back. That drawer component stows beneath the main floor of the frunk, with both surfaces having light-up lines, and there’s enough room above it for many pieces of luggage.
A large curving screen that is inspired by aero plane wings spans the entire dash. Below the dashboard is a smaller secondary control screen with gear selector buttons, and between the seats is a center console with a rotary control knob and door buttons.
The interior is decorated in a maroon and white color scheme, with beautiful materials like as glass, leather-alternative textiles, and gold-colored metals, as well as numerous lit Lincoln logos and lattice patterns.
The A- and D-pillars are made of a 3D-printed metal structure with a lattice pattern that allows them to be seen from inside the vehicle, adding to the feeling of openness.
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