Once you sit in the seat of the all-new Lincoln Continental, you may never want to get up. Once you see the Navigator concept's doors go up, you may never want them to go down.
We got to experience both features hands-on during the New York International Auto Show's press preview day on Wednesday, as Lincoln more than added to its brand of ultra-luxurious comfort and flair.
When arriving at Lincoln's exhibit at the Jacob Javits Center, I first got behind the wheel of the Continental to experience the automaker's 30-way Perfect Position seats, which are quite easily the most comfortable automobile seats I have ever sat in.
While it's pretty standard for automobile seats to automatically move forward, backward and recline, Lincoln changed the game with a split cushion under your thighs, with each one being independently adjustable for the ultimate comfort. Why would you need to move each thigh cushion? Well, through extensive research, Lincoln discovered that not everyone's legs rest level while driving and this adjustment gives the driver comfort down to the slightest degree.
As I got behind the wheel of the ultra-luxurious Continental, I toggled each thigh cushion control until it was set to my exact liking and comfort, doing the same with the seat recline feature as well. If I had it my way, I would have backed the seat up as far as possible, whipped out my MacBook Air and written this entire Hands-On experience from the Continental's Perfect Position seat. That's how comfortable the plush seat was.
Altogether, the Perfect Position seat — which counts a boatload of patents, as Lincoln design chief David Woodhouse told us — touts six ways to adjust the tracking, four ways for adjusting each thigh support, head restraint, cushion extension and lumbar support and two ways each for adjusting the cushion bolster, back bolster, upper back bolster support and reclining. That's how it gets a total of 30 different ways to adjust your seating.
Even the Continental's back seats recline, making Lincoln's revamped flagship all the more luxurious and comfortable.
While the cool Continental is slated to be available this summer, Lincoln more than laid the luxury on thick with its Navigator concept. Sporting gull-wing doors like those of the new Tesla Model X crossover, the hulking but stylish concept SUV truly made us stop in our tracks.
But that was just the beginning of the concept's over-the-top luxury, which also includes deployable concertina steps, making it that much easier to step into and out of the SUV, and get this — a custom wardrobe management system in the trunk. You can't make this stuff up.
Each passenger having their own entertainment via a headrest-embedded monitor isn't too shabby, either.
With reports already surfacing that the gull-wing doors and concertina steps won't make it to final production of the SUV, we enjoyed this Navigator concept while we could at the NYIAS.
The auto show is open to the public from March 25 to April 3 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.
