Posts from ‘Sedans’
2022 BMW M440i xDrive Gran Coupe in San Remo Green Metallic (a $550 option)
2022 BMW M440i xDrive Gran Coupe
Class: Premium Compact Car
Miles driven: 248
Fuel used: 10.5 gallons
2022 Genesis G80 3.5T Sport Prestige in “Siberian Ice” paint
2022 Genesis G80 3.5T Sport Prestige
Class: Premium Large Car
Miles driven: 335
Fuel used: 19.5 gallons
Test Drive: 2022 Subaru WRX Premium
2022 Subaru WRX Premium in Solar Orange Pearl
2022 Subaru WRX Premium
Class: Sporty/Performance Car
Miles driven: 257
Fuel used: 12.0 gallons
Classic Car Ads: Sedans of 1980
1980 Chrysler LeBaron
According to website Statista, light-truck sales—which include crossovers and SUVs—have risen from about 2 million in 1980 to almost 12 million last year. One needs only to look around to see that coupe and convertible sales have fallen to all-time lows, but it’s the humble sedan that I am most worried about.
2022 Audi A3 Premium Plus in Glacier White Metallic (a $595 option)
2022 Audi A3 Premium Plus
Class: Premium Compact Car
Miles driven: 471
Fuel used: 16.5 gallons
Test Drive: 2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line
2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line in Ascot Green
2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line
Class: Premium Midsize Car
Miles driven: 170
Fuel used: 7.8 gallons
The Last Old-Man Cars
Chrysler 300
My father has owned a total of one non-American-brand vehicles in his life. That vehicle was a 1999 Subaru Forester, which he purchased used from me. Now in his eighties, my dad has never strayed too far from a core vehicle type—that being a largish sedan featuring inoffensive styling and something more than 4-cylinder power under the hood. In reverse order, his most recent cars include a Chrysler 300, Buick Lucerne, Oldsmobile Aurora, and an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
2022 Hyundai Elantra N (left) and Kona N
Ah, the factory hot-rodded compact car. It’s a genre that really came into its own during the first decade of the new millennium, influenced in part by the import-tuner craze and the unexpected blockbuster success of the 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious. Before long, several mainstream-brand manufacturers were offering snarky, youth-oriented versions of their bread-and-butter compact sedans and hatchbacks, with performance-tuned suspensions and gutsy turbocharged powerplants.
1998 Lincoln Town Car Touring Sedan
Note: The following story was excerpted from the February 2021 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.
For decades, the prototypical American luxury automobile was a full-size sedan often utilizing body-on-frame construction. Cadillac’s last of the type was the 1996 Fleetwood. Lincoln stuck with the recipe and offered Town Cars through 2011. For a while, 1998-2002 to be exact, one of them was the warmed-up Touring Sedan.
