Maikerusan

She lost me with this :
You may love the fact that to engage drive, park, neutral, or reverse, you push a big fat button on the dashboard. (I did not – it felt condescending.)

That, to me, says more about her than the car. Pushing a button is condescending? Really? I suppose she really must not like elevators either.

SW17LS

I agree the "push button" transmission is dumb. I too prefer a shifter.

But, I think she's being overly harsh. I think the MKX is a pretty nice vehicle.

mmarshall

According to Lincoln, their market-research showed that many of their potential new customers wanted freed-up space on the console, without either parking-brake levers or shift-levers taking up that space (or stubby column-levers like on some BMW and Mercedes vehicles). This is now Lincoln's third all-new vehicle in a row with the transmission push-buttons...MKZ, MKC, and MKX.

I learned to drive an automatic myself, almost half a century ago, with Chrysler's 1960's-vintage push-buttons, though they were electro-mechanical and needed a firm push and click/snap to engage, rather than just the very light tap from one's fingertip on the new Lincoln buttons. That's one thing I DON"T like about the new Lincoln buttons.....they take too little effort and are too easy to brush accidentally, perhaps engaging the wrong gear at the wrong time.

BB11

You would think they could remember back to the Edsel.

mmarshall

The Edsel Citation's steering wheel push-buttons for the transmission were not what doomed that car. It was simply the wrong car at the wrong time......large and relatively expensive during a recession, not really that much different from corporate sister Mercury despite the quirky styling and features, and during a period when some American car buyers, for the first time, were starting to turn to smaller cars.