2026 Lincoln CUV: Stylish Design and EV Power Under the Hood
Lincoln CUV Going electric-only is costing the Blue Oval company a lot of money. But it has to swallow its ego and recover from the setback until it finally achieves success, otherwise it will have a terrible end if it misses the train of all-electric hype.
Lincoln CUV, the corporation has a formidable group of domestic rivals in the US: the Ford Mustang Mach-E competes with the best-selling Tesla Model Y, as well as other vehicles like the Hyundai Ioniq 5. The Tesla Cybertruck, GMC Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, the future Chevy Silverado EV RST, GMC Sierra EV Denali, or the Ram 1500 REV are all competitors to the Ford F-150 Lightning at the same time.
In theory, fans of the Blue Oval should not fear, as Ford is working hard to develop a new Lincoln CUV platform for models that are more affordable as well as the upcoming generation of mainstream vehicles. It would also enter the luxury segment with Lincoln, as Lincoln has been working on at least two roomy three-row Lincoln CUV SUVs for some time now. Undoubtedly at least one of them is going to sport the iconic Lincoln badge.
After all, they’ll have to catch up to Cadillac, which is way ahead of them in the electrified vehicle arena with the Lyriq and Celestiq, already on the market or configurable, and three-row crossover Lincoln CUV SUVs, the 2025 Optic, Escalade iQ, and 2026 Vistiq, coming soon. One potential risk is the 2025 Cadillac Escalade iQ, especially considering that the hugely popular full-size SUV series is now gearing up for the era of zero emissions.
Yes, the vehicle is fire from parallel fields of CGI and smoke from the rumor mill. More precisely, the realm of digital content creators for cars has handed our unofficial, hypothetical big Lincoln three-row all-electric SUV fantasies over to Vince Burlap (aka vburlapp on social media or burlappcar.com), a prolific virtual artist who likes to dream up all the latest models in the broader automotive realm.
Lincoln unveiled the Star Concept in 2022. It was a mid-size, two-row EV idea that was intended to usher in a new design language for the era of zero emissions. We all know that wasn’t the case, but it should have been available as a series-production model for the 2024 model year by now. Instead, the Pixel Master reinterprets it as a big, full-size, three-row SUV that’s more likely to compete with the imminent Vistic as a family-friendly crossover model than the Escalade IQ.
It remains to be seen when (and if) these big three-row EV crossover models from Lincoln and Ford are released to challenge Cadillac. Ford has already postponed work on the next generation of EV pickup trucks to focus on an unexpected ‘cheap’ EV platform that will produce smaller and more affordable models than the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lighting.
