«Mercedes dominates
the big luxury sedan market worldwide and the challenge of the sixth - generation S - Class was to be even better than the fifth - gen model, the World Car jurors said in a statement.
Not exact matches
With its numbers off even in a booming
luxury market, Cadillac's own record runs from critical successes that have thus far generated lackluster sales — namely the ATS and CTS
sedans — to the industry's
biggest egg - on - face of 2014, the epically miscalculated ELR plug - in hybrid.
Hedrick told us that the Northeast is a key
market for
big luxury sedans like the K900, and that's an area of the country where rear - wheel - drive is a non-starter.
A shame, then, that the trunk isn't particularly
big: at 15.3 cubic feet, it's far from being the largest in the
luxury - oriented
sedan market (though is admittedly larger than what you'll find on a Volvo S90 or Audi A6), though you can extend the trunk even further by folding the 60:40 - split rear seat backs almost completely flat.
Hyundai entered the midsized, near -
luxury market a couple of years ago with the XG350, and now corporate partner Kia jumps in with the 2004 Amanti, a handsome, comfortable
sedan that's
bigger than the XG350, even though they share some components.
The new, second - generation Genesis
sedan is Hyundai's second (or third if you count the Equus)
big step into serious
luxury — or mid-
luxury, depending on how you want to slice up
market segments — the first being the original Genesis
sedan, launched into our
market in 2009.