Rapper’s Ride Reborn: Navigator Charts Comeback as Family Hauler

Back when it was the squad car of choice among hip-hop moguls, the Lincoln Navigator lifted Ford Motor Co.’s luxury line to the top of the charts. To climb the sales ranks again, the brand has bet the model’s future lies in becoming a family hauler.

Clad in aluminum body panels, the Navigator making its debut Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show will weigh in 200 pounds lighter. But its massive lattice-work grille, 22-inch wheels and imposing stance brings just as much bling as the original that Sean “Puffy” Combs used as his getaway vehicle from a 1999 nightclub altercation.