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As luxurious as a Tesla, for easily half the price
Tim, 10/22/2015
2015 Lincoln MKZ Black Label 4dr Sedan AWD (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
17 of 20 people found this review helpful
I got to thinking the other day about how this car compares to a Tesla Model S I have driven... I absolutely love 100% electric, and would drive a Tesla in a heartbeat. There is no doubt that the Lincoln is missing the excitement factor of instant torque, but the 'fuel' economy is a negligible savings, and the overall vehicle cost is night/day. I love the fit and finish of the Lincoln, and the overall ride quality is excellent. The car is costing me about $65/month for gas (1k miles @40mpg /$2.40-$2.50gal), a Tesla would cost about $30/month for electricity (about 250-300Kwh @.10Kwh). To compare lease payments, my numbers are about $600/month difference ($350-400 vs $900-$1k/month over 36 months 12k mile lease). I expect right now it's pretty easy to get a great deal on a hybrid, since sales are slumping. Those 15mpg SUV's are flying off the lot. For a luxury car, the Lincoln is an excellent value, and I can't really compare it to the Ford Fusion... it's simply a nicer car inside/out (I was impressed by the quality of the current Ford Fusion before looking at the MKZ). I do find it crazy how much the price of the car can balloon once you start adding features. I got the base hybrid version, which has plenty of features for me. Features I wish I had ordered: Sun Roof OR full glass roof Blind Spot indicators Adaptive Cruise Control
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Great looking car and to drive and own.
silverrarity, 01/06/2015
updated 01/11/2022
2015 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
39 of 48 people found this review helpful
Picked up my 2015 MKZ Hybrid on New Year's Eve and so far its a joy to drive. In the past I've had an Acura TL and 2 Corvettes. The car I traded in for the Lincoln was a 2008 Toyota Prius and although I loved the Prius I was totally disgusted with Toyota's Service Department and never felt they treated me as a valued customer. I had done research on the Lincoln months ago and since I wanted another Hybrid with some Luxury Lincoln fit the bill all the way around. I was impressed with its look and decided to do some hands on research. I love the look of the BMW, Acura and Audi 5 but overall the Lincoln offered better Quality and used Regular Gas instead of Premium like its competition. Its now January 2021 and I'm still enjoying all there is to enjoy with my Lincoln. I have about 30,000 miles on it and recently had to replace the main battery this past December. I also had to replace the horn and rear brakes around the same time. To me that is typical wear and tear repairs except for the horn. An inconvenience to not have a horn for a short time but it didn't need "immediate" replacement. I'm disappointed that the MKZ had been Discontinued but most likely my next car will be a Toyota Camry Hybrid. Love the looks, reliability and gas mileage.
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mkz for 22 days, miss it
Charles, 08/31/2015
2015 Lincoln MKZ 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
11 of 13 people found this review helpful
I rented MKZ 2.0 for 22 days straight, drove it from LA to vegas and back, then LA to Yosemite, on to santa cruz and back to LA along the pacific coast highway, put on about 2300 miles. When I first got it, I was not too impressed, but as time went on I liked it more and more. I have a high end Lexus at home, so I was spoiled and hard to please, but now I miss the MKZ. I will exchange my Lexus for the MKZ. I was amazed that I was using regular gas and I was getting plenty of power and 32 miles on the highway with 3 people and plenty of heavy stuff in the trunk. I opened the hood, but without taking the motor cover it was not possible to figure out how many cylinder the MKZ had. I liked this car a lot, I liked the handling better than the Lexus I have, the technology, the backup camera etc were great. The driver window would only move up a little and stop, so I had to push the button several times to open or close it. I could not tell if it was malfunctioning, or if it was custom programmed inadvertently by myself, there was no manual in the glove compartment, I guess because it was rental.
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2014 Lincoln MKZ 3.7L AWD
TrevorP, 07/01/2016
updated 06/27/2018
2014 Lincoln MKZ 4dr Sedan AWD w/EcoBoost (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
This is my second winter owning the car. Last winter I had few issues with the power decklid not opening and closing automatically. It would still pop the trunk but my auto closing switches didn't work so i had to open and close it manually. No big deal. This winter, it wont even pop the trunk. I am locked out of the trunk of my vehicle unless I fold down the back seats and pull the emergency release. Then I had a dead battery....Once I got the vehicle started, it displayed several warnings (Service TPS, hill start not available, Service steering system) but the car was running. I realized i had a problem when I was unable to turn the steering wheel. If you live in cold climates, this is a terrible car. Everything is electric. Other than this issue, its a great car to spend time in and drive. I absolutely love it during the summer when everything works. *UPDATE* after taking the vehicle in to figure out the problem, they told me the trunk module was the cause of the draining battery. $400 to fix. After that was fixed the car hasn't had any other issues. *update 06/27/18* Car is still running great! Keep up on regular maintenance and it runs and drives great. I do think I need to get new brakes soon but no major issues this far other than the trunk module and battery issues I had last year.
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Looker...needs a few electronic system refinements
Doc, 09/15/2015
updated 02/21/2023
2015 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
12 of 15 people found this review helpful
Got the reserve trim with multi-contour (multi-inflatable, infinitely customizable, massaging) seats, Luxe Metallic, THX sound system, 10 spoke wheels with painted slots that almost match the Luxe paint. It's a great looking car especially with the after-market 35% transmissive side and rear window tint. Very comfortable, very quiet. Michelin tires were unexpected. Update: Michelin tread lasted only 35,000 miles, though. Ordered Barum Bravuris tires through Discount Tires which were half the price and seem every bit as good as the Michelins. Got 40.3 mpg freeway miles back from dealer at 70-75 mph. Been averaging 41 in all around local driving, mostly suburban. Luxe paint I really like--goes from a pewter gray with a hint of taupe and even gold in certain light angles. Wife not crazy about color, though. I thought it was an interesting switch from the silvers and grays that have been out there for many years. She wanted white, which to me says, "fleet car". Interior is very modern, flat, and simplified with touch screen and finger sensitive volume and fan sliders. Unfortunately this system has been discontinued. Fan speed noise is well muffled except at higher settings. (the Toyota Avalon which we also test drove had much noisier fan). The Avalon also had too European handling (stiff ride for long distance cruising) at least in the high end trim. Controls were all very configurable. My only complaints are two: (1) the THX system is a waste of money in my opinion. Yeah, it's powerful and can be set up with a booming base if you like, BUT, the THX system adds that center speaker (in addition to the traditional stereo left and right channels). That works well in a home or movie theater, but first of all you can't get surround sound very easily because most media doesn't contain the surround channels. Sirius satellite does not broadcast surround to automobile receivers (I called them about this). FM HD doesn't contain it (I called 2 station engineers). CD's generally do not have surround encoded although you supposedly can get them. Reportedly there also are DVD recordings that contain surround sound, but who buys either of these any more? Some MP3 downloads reportedly have surround sound so that would likely be your only chance of using this feature. You can set your THX system to chose between "stereo" and "surround". I heard no difference in any of the media I played through it. But this is the real killer: The front center speaker's volume is factory fixed at 2 to 3 times the volume of the left and right speakers. This pretty well swamps out the stereo effect that you would hear from the side speakers. They might as well just have left out the left and right channels and had just the center speaker. You can compensate somewhat by fading the sound mostly to the rear which diminishes the effect of that loud center front speaker. If you read the forums you'll see that some have just disconnected the front center speaker, and others replaced the side speakers with more sensitive ones in an effort to balance out the center speaker volume. THX is an extra $1,000 option--forget it--not worth it. At least listen to the standard Lincoln audio system, then the THX, before you get excited about the THX "experience". Don't be swayed by the demo THX theater 30 sec. playback. They just juggle the relative volumes of all the speakers to make it sound impressive. Doesn't pan out anything close in reality. Number (2): The voice command Nav. system is archaic, and updates are expensive. The menus are not intuitive. Most functions are locked out except when car is stopped. My $150 Garmin is far superior and updates are free. Any smart phone will give you much quicker directions these days and it automatically updates. The screen that comes with the NAV system does give you better control of station/media control and cell phone connection. Update: It looks like you can buy the annual Nav update SD card for about $50 from Ebay. Much cheaper than going through dealer. Performance problem update. At 35,000 miles in temps above 85 degrees, the gasoline engine started over revving when accelerating. Normal at temps around 75 degrees. Also the gasoline engine's rpm's audibly would oscillate slowly up and down a little when driving at constant hwy. speed on level road. Will take in to dealer next week. Update: Problem just went away. Dealer couldn't find anything. One very annoying feature that is embarrassing in certain situations: If you leave the car running and exit with the key fob in your pocket, you get this double full blast of the horn. It would be nice if it just gave a low volume "beep, beep" or something. Also about half the time when backing up it gives this rapid beeping sound--the same warning alarm that it gives when a car is approaching from either side when you are backing up. But this one is for "Check surroundings when backing up"...hardly an emergency. 2021 update: Still averaging about 41 mpg. Noticed that the NAV system doesn't have a lot of stores in its data base, many of which have been around for years. I did update the system with the latest SD card. If you try to search by category of store, you'll quickly find that the categories are very limited. My 2020 Hyundai Santa Fe Nav system is much more intuitive, but it does depend on a good Internet cellular connection for optimum operation that isn't always available. Update: Lincoln no longer makes a sedan...unfortunate.
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