The Lincoln Nautilus is a 5-door SUV from Lincoln, built from 2018, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Kemal Curić drew it.
Where it came from
The Lincoln Nautilus is a mid-sized luxury crossover SUV marketed over two generations by Ford Motor Company's Lincoln luxury brand. The Nautilus was initially renamed from the MKX as part of a midcycle update in 2018 for the 2019 model year, as Lincoln phased out its use of "MK" model names. The name Nautilus is derived from the ancient Greek word nautes, meaning "sailor", as in nautical or astronaut. The first generation is based on the CD4 platform and was manufactured at Oakville Assembly in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, alongside the Ford Edge, Ford Flex, and Lincoln MKT and manufactured in Hangzhou Assembly in Zhejiang, China, by joint venture Changan Ford from 2021 to 2023.
The second generation is solely produced by Changan Ford in China, as Ford was retooling the Oakville Assembly plant to produce electric vehicles. The Nautilus has been Lincoln's best-selling model since 2024. On August 13, 2026, Ford announced it will discontinue importing the Chinese-made Lincoln Nautilus for the U.S. market by 2030, shifting production to the United States.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 4142 -. It shifts through a 8-speed 8F35 automatic. The wheelbase is 112.2 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Lincoln MKX; assembly was at Oakville, Ontario. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model 3, the Tesla Model Y — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Lincoln catalogue sit the Lincoln First Call and the Lincoln Funeral Car.