Mercedes - Benz's flagship S - Class has earned its place among the best
big sedans through generations of evolution and development.
Not exact matches
Apparently, though, there are plenty of customers willing to pay that price for the SRT8, and I can see why: It's a
big five - passenger
sedan, with a cavernous trunk, that's equally at home at the drag strip or carving
through twisty backroads as it is at the country club.
However, if you've been paying close attention, this
big, luxury - oriented
sedan follows a logical progression from the Optima
through last year's new Cadenza model.
When I let it run
through some turns, the K900 felt clumsy and
big, where even a large
sedan with better running gear could have felt nimbler.
All the same, just when you expect the realities of physics to bite and six - figures» worth of luxury
sedan to go hurtling off the road, the
big Beemer just powers
through.
Look
through its back catalogue of cars, and you'll find that it's actually modest
sedans that had the
biggest impact on how we see Audi today — with the Audi A4 perhaps being the most important four - door car the firm has ever made.
The midsize family
sedan will be going
through some major design changes and will borrow styling cues from its
bigger brother, the Maxima.
Of course, the
biggest thing we were waiting on was the official look of the next M - powered beast, as we already knew that it would offer up 600 horsepower and 553 pound - feet of torque, all of which is channeled
through an eight - speed automatic transmission to an AWD system, yet another plus for this aggressive little sports
sedan.
A few of the
bigger potholes sent a jolt
through the car, but under most circumstances it offered a better ride than your average midsize
sedan.
But the reality is that this is a full - fledged sports
sedan, with a Corvette - derived V8 engine powering the rear wheels
through an available 6 - speed manual transmission, a sport - tuned suspension and Brembo brakes that give this
big, comfortable, 5 - passenger American
sedan the moves of a high - end German luxury sports
sedan.
Its styling, according to exterior designer Giovanni Ribotta, continues a theme started with Maserati's
big Quattroporte
sedan and carried
through the smaller Ghibli.