We drove a $90,000 Lincoln Navigator for a week and saw why Ford can't build the SUV fast enough (F)

• The original luxury SUV is all-new for 2018.
• It embodies Lincoln's "quiet luxury" philosophy at a massive scale.
• It's so popular that in January, Lincoln dealers struggled to keep up with demand.
• We tested it for a week, and it was more than up to every challenge we threw at it.

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There's a mighty new Lincoln Navigator in town, and we really put it through its paces in the New York and New Jersey area as winter bore down on the region.

The Navigator, around since the 1990s, is the original luxury SUV. If the recently arrived new Continental is the flagship sedan of Ford's revived premium marque, then the Navigator is the dreadnought of the fleet. This is the fourth generation of the big guy. It's off to a great start. Lincoln reported January sales on February 1, and Navigator was up 132% from January of 2017.

We saw the vehicle for the first time as a flamboyant, nautical-themed concept vehicle at the New York Auto Show in 2016; Lincoln officially debuted the new Navigator at the 2017 show. It was only a matter of time before we got our hands on this behemoth for some test time behind the wheel. That happened in December.

Here's how it went:

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The new Navigator was teased in 2016, if you can call this bonkers gullwing-door beast a tease.

In 2017, Lincoln head Kumar Galhotra revealed the production vehicle in New York.

And by the end of the year, we got our hands on the SUV. Our well-optioned 2018 4x4 Reserve trim level tipped the price scales at $90,000.

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