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Thx for the reply & help. Sorry to be dense, but is the order guide the arbiter of every order...and you can't override it with a "special" order?

Unfortunately the S90's trip meter functionality has been reset so often that I don't have a solid lifetime number (wife has the car right now but I'll check later to see if that number is available somewhere). Since it also has a range of nearly 20 miles, and both my wife and I have RT commutes in that range, we can *mostly* use electric if we're driving with a very soft foot. I regularly get over 100 mpge for short trips around town, but on longer trips my average can come down to 40's (or lower on really long trips). If I had to guess I'd say that given most of our driving patterns we're around mid-40's in overall mpge. For the S90 "gingerly accelerating", think of the way Volvo does it as more or less comparing to a tach (see image below). As long as you keep the needle in the blue area of the tach (on the right), regardless of whether you are in hybrid mode or pure ev mode, you will only be using electric. If you get out of that line (which more or less overlaps with RPMs) the gas kicks in. If you select "Pure EV" driving it pushes that threshold up a bit (the blue moves further up the curve), but it's still relatively low. The moment the needle goes over that limit the gas engine automatically kicks in. Alternatively, from what I heard in one of the reviews, Lincoln has done it better (for how I'd want it). If you tell it you want pure EV mode it will stay in pure EV mode no matter how hard you accelerate unless you give it permission to go back to hybrid mode. Downside could be slower acceleration in an emergency situation...upside is you can push the car as hard as it will go in pure EV and not worry about gas kicking in. Hope that makes sense.

Been playing with the configurator and so far I haven't been able to get the GT Black Label with the 2nd row bench seat. A bench seat does seem to be an option with the non GT Black Label (GTI but not GTII). I've never special ordered a Lincoln I'm curious whether people here think there is any reason one wouldn't be able to get 2nd row Bench with a GT Black Label. If you can get a GT with a bench w/ GT I trim it seems like there shouldn't be any reason you can't get the black label. Am I missing something?

For my first post on Blue Oval Forums I'm going to come in here and flog/punch/kick the dead horse some more. I agree with the comment that more all-electric range would have been nice. First off, I currently drive a Volvo S90 T8 (sedan version of the XC90 T8), which is a PHEV. The most satisfying part of the drive by far is when it's gliding in all electric mode. Unfortunately, between the fact that I need to gingerly accelerate to keep it in pure electric, and the roughly 20 mile range, I don't get to make use of all electric nearly as much as I'd like. 0-60 in that boat is still sub 5 seconds for the same reasons the GT will be quick - that electric motor torque is solid and instant. However, as much as it's nice having that performance on tap, day-to-day the gliding of all-electric driving is something I get joy from for far more of my seat-time. I can imagine that the GT could be the same...great to have the performance, but the gliding (which I think is a term Lincoln uses iirc) is something extra special when all-electric. FWIW I currently have a deposit on the Rivian R1S - https://rivian.com/r1s/. While they position it as an "adventure vehicle", and it has nowhere near the luxury of the GT, to me the combination of utility, power, range, 3 rows, and minimalist cabin may ultimately be the ticket. I'm primarily worried the first batch of R1S's, which should be coming out right as my S90 T8 is up, will be WELL north of the $72k starting price. Then there's the fact it's a lot of money for a car from a new untested company. Forgetting about price, my perfect car would be the electric drivetrain of the Rivian with the luxury of the Aviator. I'm happy Ford dropped $500MM into Rivian earlier this year because that tells me we'll eventually see something close to that. BTW, I sat in a Black Label earlier this week and it is so incredibly nice - I envy anyone who ends up with one. Unfortunately we need a 2nd row bench, so a black label GT isn't in the cards for us.