---
title: "Meet the Most Powerful Lincoln Ever"
description: "Can this hot rod MKZ, and its new twin-turbo V-6, save the brand?"
date: "2015-11-18"
modified: "2015-11-18"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/938/meet-the-most-powerful-lincoln-ever"
categories:
  - "Lincoln News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Lincoln"
  - "sedan"
---

# Meet the Most Powerful Lincoln Ever

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/2017_lincoln_mkz_04_hr.jpg>)
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You know the mid-cycle refresh game. A nip here, a tuck there, throw on some fresh headlights and wheels. Done. Nobody at Lincoln got that memo. Yes, the updated 2017 MKZ has the fresh headlights and wheels. Also: 400 horsepower, 400 pound-foot of torque.

Oh. Well, that’s unexpected.

Output, up from 300 hp in the current MKZ, comes via new 3-liter twin-turbo V6. That makes it the most powerful Lincoln ever made. The engine is exclusive to Lincoln, and a peek at what the flagship Continental sedan will be working with when it arrives next year.

![2017\_lincoln\_mkz\_05\_hr.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/2017_lincoln_mkz_05_hr.jpg>)

Better yet, the 2017 MKZ is slated to offer a Driver’s Package. That’ll include sport seats, adjustable dampers, carbon fiber interior bits and all-wheel with, get this, a rear torque vectoring system. Which is neat. Real neat.

There’s nothing like a healthy shot of muscle to energize a languishing brand, and Ford’s luxury arm needs it bad. The new MKZ, now with enough power to fully crap on an Audi S4, might just do the trick.

https://youtube.com/embed/DDaeUVNsv1w

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