Yes and no, please bear with me, I didn’t mean reskin as a put down of the efforts done and it could be argued that a deep reskin achieves nearly as much as a different tophat, normally a wheelbase change seals it.   The Lincoln Navigator is best described as a clever and deeply executed re-skin of the Ford Expedition, sharing the same truck-based heavy-duty foundation, core architecture, and mechanical hard points, but elevated with a unique top-hat design, exclusive sheet metal, and bespoke luxury appointments.   The Lincoln Aviator is a clever, heavily upgraded reskin with unique mechanical and luxury differentiators rather than just a simple badge-engineered top hat. While it shares the same core rear-wheel-drive-based platform, wheelbase, and structural hard points as the Ford Explorer, Lincoln separates the Aviator with unique sheet metal, an exclusive standard twin-turbo V6 engine, and distinct luxury hardware. The Lincoln Corsair is a clever, heavily upgraded and exceptionally well-differentiated reskin of the Ford Escape on the shared C2 platform, featuring unique sheetmetal, distinct luxury powertrains, and a dramatically quieter, higher-tech cabin.   C2 Edge vs C2 Nautilus- this is where the story differs and I would agree with your observation of a dedicated top hat due to different wheelbase.   Scales of economy have played an important part in limiting the funding for the above - I would love to see Lincoln go another step better and challenge Cadillac as well as BMW & MB (6.8 Navigator with LWB? and the Lincoln “Bronco” with 3.0 EB)

Also too much economic instability so I do understand Ford focusing in on its profit earners but  it  also need the minds that made the Bronco and Maverick possible to hunt out all those other valuable niches. You could do worse than using Lincoln to displace a few German LUX vehicles.    

Had it 8 years and I think I've only had people in the back seat 2 or 3 times.  Which is why I got the supercab.

They have one full size body on frame rwd/4wd, one unibody rwd and two unibody fwd hybrids.  That's 3 different platforms and 3 of the 4 have 100% unique tophats and interiors.   That's not "reskinned fords".   What else should they be doing?  

The simpler explanation is they don't have the capacity (yet) to expand sales much so they chose not to spend the money on it.  That might change once Oakville is at full speed.

You would think that Ford would have a magnetic ride suspension setting called “Luxury” that gives all of  their high end vehicles a comfortable ride experience that Lincoln owners expect…   I am convinced that Ford just doesn’t get “the little things” that add up to a big deal for owners.

While Ford excels in delivering for F Truck customer expectations, it seems to be all at sea when it comes to what Lincoln buyers want beyond reskinned and retrimmed Ford vehicles…why is that?

Tripping over themselves to not call it SVT or some other really cool name?

waloud;    sounds like your inside the KTP.  Thanks for building my next beauty......and for the great builds overall.

Looks pretty cool. This is what the lobo should have been.