2025 Lincoln Aviator Also Drops Active Park Assist 2.0

The refreshed 2025 Lincoln Aviator just debuted in early February, bringing with it some revised styling elements inside and out, along with a host of new features such as the Lincoln Digital Experience infotainment software, bigger screens, and a revamped interior with new niceties – albeit at higher prices. 2025 Lincoln Aviator production is currently scheduled to kick off at the Chicago Assembly plant in May, but now, Ford Authority has learned that it will be missing one feature, in particular – Active Park Assist 2.0.

Ford Authority uncovered this omission while comparing equipment lists between the outgoing 2024 model and the refreshed 2025 Lincoln Aviator, at which point we discovered that Active Park Assist 2.0 is no longer being offered on the luxurious crossover. This particular feature allows a vehicle to take over in parallel and perpendicular parking situations and can also be used to pull out of parallel spots, and has been offered in several Blue Oval models over the past few years.

However, many of those models have also been deleting Active Park Assist 2.0 as of late, too. Back in 2022, that began with the Ford Mustang Mach-E, which was instead shipped with an Active Park Assist Prep Kit that allowed dealers to install the parts needed for the feature when they became available, and it was joined by the 2022 Lincoln Navigator in April of that same year, followed by the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning, as Ford Authority reported last November, as well as the Aviator’s platform-mate, the 2025 Ford Explorer.

As Ford Authority reported this past February, The Blue Oval has been muling the removal of automated parallel parking from its Active Park Assist feature in general, as COO Kumar Galhotra noted on the automaker’s Q4 2024 earnings call with investors that this is one of a few seldomly-used features that the automaker plans to remove as it aims to trim another $2 billion in costs from its bottom line. In fact, removing this feature alone could potentially save the automaker a whopping $10 million annually.

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