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Audi A4

2009-05-10T11:48:00.000-07:00

The near-luxury segment is highly competitive, and the A4 has consistently held its ground among the likes of the BMW 3-Series, Lexus IS and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Available in sedan, wagon (Avant) or convertible (cabriolet), the A4 is the most popular model in the Audi lineup. For 2008 the sporty S-line package includes revised front and rear bumpers, a new front grille, and an integrated trunk lid spoiler.

Mercedes-Benz E-Class

2009-05-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

Redesigned for 2007 with more aggressive styling and an updated interior, the big E-Class news is the introduction of the E320 BLUETEC diesel. This low-emissions machine has nothing in common with the clattering, black-cloud diesels of the 1980s. In fact the only way neighbors will notice it's a diesel is from the BLUETEC badge on the trunk lid. The 3.0-liter 210-horsepower E320 BLUETEC manages a 23/32 mpg city/hwy rating — impressive for a car that weighs nearly 4,000 pounds.

Lexus ES 350

2009-05-10T11:46:00.000-07:00

As one of the top-selling cars in the Lexus lineup over the years, the ES has come to be known as the full-luxury version of the Toyota Camry. The 272-horsepower V6 packs plenty of punch, airbags can be found all over and there's an optional panorama roof. The wheelbase and wheel size have also increased, and a fully independent suspension provides good handling. But, says MSN Autos reviewer Dan Jedlicka, "the ES 350 is no sports sedan."

Lexus IS

2009-05-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

Aimed squarely at BMW's 3-Series, the Lexus sport sedan is available as the IS 250, IS 250 AWD and IS 350. The IS 350 sports a 3.5-liter direct-injected 306-horsepower V6. At the 2007 SEMA show in Las Vegas, Lexus showed a hot-rod version of the sedan called the IS F. Powered by a 416-horsepower 5.0-liter V8 engine, this car screams performance with forged 19-inch BBS wheels and massive Brembo brakes.

Cadillac CTS

2009-05-10T11:44:00.000-07:00

The CTS has almost single-handedly brought new life to the Cadillac brand since its arrival in 2003. The 2008 CTS has been heavily updated, with development done at the famed Nurburgring circuit in Germany. According to MSN Autos writer Mike Meredith, who drove the new Caddy at Laguna Seca, "the CTS proved to be tight and responsive in corners and very well balanced overall. This is one American car that import carmakers should not overlook."

Acura TL

2009-05-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

Unlike many of its rivals, the TL has a front-wheel-drive layout. Though hard-core enthusiasts may bemoan the lack of rear-wheel drive, the TL provides much luxury and space for its sticker price. The front-wheel-drive chassis provides for a roomy interior, which is fitted with a host of comfort and convenience features. In addition to lots of standard equipment, "the agile TL is fun to drive, especially in Type-S form," said MSN Autos reviewer Dan Jedlicka.

Infiniti G35

2009-05-10T11:42:00.000-07:00

The Infiniti G midsize luxury car is available as a sedan or coupe (G37). Beyond the extra doors, the G35 sedan is four inches longer and more than two inches taller than the coupe. The sportier-looking G37 is wider, however, and comes standard with 18-inch wheels and a 330-horsepower 3.7-liter V6 engine — 24 more horses than the sedan. According to Consumer Reports, the G35 is their top-rated upscale sedan, with an overall score of 92.

Mercedes-Benz C-Class

2009-05-10T11:40:00.001-07:00

The redesigned, fourth-generation C-Class sedan is all-new for 2008. Edgier and larger than its predecessor, the new C-Class is nearly four inches longer and two inches wider, with a wheelbase lengthened nearly two inches. Engines are carryovers, but a new all-wheel-drive system will be available with an automatic transmission in the C300 Sport and C300 Luxury trims. Prices for a 2008 C-Class start at just over $31,000.

BMW 5-Series

2009-05-10T11:39:00.000-07:00

Available in a sedan or sports wagon, the 5-Series reputation is of exceptional ride and handling characteristics. To enhance this experience, all-wheel drive was added to the lineup in 2006. For the 2008 model year, BMW gives the midsize luxury car a refreshed look, more powerful engines and a number of new features. The 2008 5-Series starts at just under $45,000 for the sedan and $54,000 for the sports wagon.

BMW 3-Series

2009-05-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

The BMW 3-Series was the most researched luxury vehicle on MSN Autos for all of 2007.BMW’s bestseller is offered in sedan, coupe, convertible and wagon versions. Its sleek styling and sports-car-like performance have helped make this “ultimate driving machine” the most researched luxury car on MSN Autos for all of 2007. Prices start at just under $32,500 for the base 328i sedan and climb to just under $50,000 for the 300-horsepower 335i convertible.

Personal luxury car

2009-05-10T11:10:00.000-07:00

A personal luxury car is a highly styled, luxury vehicle with an emphasis on image over practicality and performance. Emphasizing the comfort and satisfaction of its owner above all else, the personal luxury sacrifices passenger capacity, cargo room, and roadability in favor of style. Typically mass produced employing many stock sedan components beneath a distinctive exterior, it has often been a lucrative segment of the post-World War II automotive marketplace

Characteristics
Personal luxury cars are characteristically two-door coupes or convertibles with two-passenger or 2+2 seating. They are distinguished on the performance end from GT and sports cars by their greater emphasis on comfort and convenience over roadability, on the luxury end, by appointments and style over performance. With great variability within the market, however, distinctions in either direction can be problematic.
The vast majority of personal luxury cars are mass produced rather than coach built, and typically share many mechanical components with high volume sedans to reduce production costs.

Origins
The antecedents of the modern personal luxury car are the highly expensive, often custom-bodied sporting luxury cars of the 1920s and 1930s. Made by Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, Duesenberg, Mercedes-Benz and others, these extremely stylish prestige cars were favored by film stars, playboys, and gangsters for projecting dashing and extravagant images. Two extreme examples were the Duesenberg SJ and Mercedes SSK, tremendously fast and stratospherically expensive automobiles which eschewed both pure luxury and true sports performance in favor of a distinctive combination of style, craftsmanship, and power that screamed look at me.
The Great Depression and World War II temporarily eroded the market for these expensive bespoke cars before post-War recovery saw a reemergence in Europe. On the sedate end of the spectrum appeared such erect yet swift two-door sedans as the H.J. Mulliner bodied, straight-8 powered Bentley Continental R Type. On the other, performance oriented GTs, relatively comfortable low-slung cars intended for high-speed, long-distance travel. Italian marques such as Ferrari and Maserati took the GT lead, offering distinctive, often custom-bodied two-seat and 2+2 coupes powered by exotic alloy-lightened engines straight off the race track. In between could be found such combinations of luxury and performance as the Mercedes-Benz 300SL and 190SL, BMW 507, Alfa Romeo 1900 Sprint and DKW 1000Sp. For a full decade after the War America had not a single offering to compete with the Europeans, nor a trace of its own pre-War mastery of the type.

Luxury and reliability over sport
With both custom luxury cars and GTs beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest, the 1950s saw a growing trend in both the United States and Europe towards mass-market "specialty cars" catering primarily to drivers coveting the image of bespoke machinery without its cost. Joining them were affluent buyers who could afford the genuine article but disliked the inconvenience of complex service and repair, especially in areas where exotic car dealerships were few and far between. Many of both classes were also interested in such modern conveniences as automatic transmission, air conditioning, power steering, and other comfort options not generally offered on GTs or sports cars of the day."[1]

Factory customs
The result was a burgeoning market for so-called "factory customs," models using standard or mostly standard engines and other mechanical components, but with unique styling. A prominent early example was the 1953 open top Cadillac Eldorado, where customized styling gave it a price tag nearly twice that of a standard Cadillac convertible despite nearly identical underpinnings.

The Personal Car
The personal luxury car market segment in the United States was largely defined by the Ford Thunderbird. Joining the Chevrolet Corvette in 1955 as America's only other two-seater, the original "T-bird" was a softly sprung, reasonably powerful auto for its day, available as both a convertible and an open car with removable hardtop. Too large, slow handling, and luxurious to be a sports car, yet lacking the high-performance of a GT, Ford instead coined a new term for the industry to market it, a "personal car."
The model met with reasonable success its first three years. However, since Ford basically defined the "personal luxury" niche, they believed they could also reshape it.[2] As a result of their own surveys, Ford decided the Thunderbird should gain two seats[2] and a permanent hardtop, changes they considered to be refinements of the personal luxury idea even if the car which emerged was considerably less personal than its two-seat forerunner.[2] Only one American car occupied the target marketplace, the Studebaker Golden Hawk, a highly styled two-door performance hardtop in the GT tradition.
The bulkier, four-seat 1958 Thuderbird which emerged, arrayed with comfort features and weighted down with styling gimmicks, nevertheless found tremendous success, outselling any of its predecessors. Its merely above-average performance and mediocre handling proved no daunt: the marketplace had spoken.

The personal luxury market expands
In spite of the four-seat Thunderbird's solid success American auto manufacturers were inexplicably slow to react. Four years into the 2+2's run GM's Pontiac finally offered the 1962 Grand Prix and Buick its Wildcat, but neither was an attempt to clone the Thunderbird formula.
The breakthrough was 1963, Buick serving up a true "personal luxury car" with its well-received Riviera and Studebaker the powerful and futuristic Avanti. Where the Grand Prix and Wildcat were little more than trim variations on standard full-size sedans, the Riviera was a striking new design squarely aimed at the four-place sports coupe marketplace,[3] while the Avanti offered near-GT styling and performance in an American-built car. The T-Bird had serious competition.
Within three years GM's Oldsmobile had rolled out an ahead of its time front-wheel drive Toronado and Cadillac reintroduced its exclusive Eldorado as a long-nose, short-tail 2+2. Smaller and less-costly personal luxury car influenced models such as Dodge's Charger and the Mercury Cougar made their appearance. Even staid American Motors introduced the Marlin, a full-sized sports fastback that based on an intermediate platform.
In Europe, smaller-bodied and more expensive models such as the BMW CS coupes, Citroën SM, second generation Mercedes SL roadsters aimed as the same basic personal luxury car market. Some began to join Mercedes as imports available in America.
By 1967 Motor Trend magazine was able to state: "Motorists of just about every stripe can now find a car with pleasing and distinctive lines, good performance and all the things that go to make a car enjoyable."[4]
The decline of the muscle car in the early 1970s coincided with a strong upswing in the personal luxury segment, as buyers shifted emphasis from performance to comfort. Models such as the Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix, Ford Elite and Chrysler Cordoba racked up impressive sales figures in the mid '70s with their intimate, luxury-oriented feel, plush interiors and vintage styling cues like Rolls Royce-style radiator grilles, opera windows, and vinyl tops.

Decline
American 'personal luxury' cars grew ever larger, heavier, and more luxurious, offering moderate straight-ahead performance at best. Poor gas mileage, an industry switch to front-drive architecture, and renewed emphasis on utility over image began to winnow their ranks during the 1980s.
By the 1990s younger buyers had moved either toward imported European and Japanese cars or sport utility vehicles. After years of steadily declining sales, the Oldsmobile Toronado was discontinued after 1992, the Lincoln Mark after 1998, the Buick Riviera after 1999 and the Cadillac Eldorado after 2002. An effort by Ford to reintroduce a small, two-seat, retro-themed Thunderbird in 2002 failed after three years of sluggish sales.
Avoiding the excesses of their American counterparts, imported personal luxury cars from European marques such as BMW and Mercedes and Japanese manufacturers Lexus SC and Infiniti continue to sell well in spite of their typically considerably higher prices than their failed domestic competition.

Hyundai Genesis -- the Korean luxo car

2009-05-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

The interesting thing about Hyundai is that it seems to be the company that loves the word "incremental." It's how they operate, how they design cars. They bring out new models incrementally -- changes in their model lineup are not dramatic.
For a while now (to be charitable, we'll forget their early effort, the Excel), Hyundai has been making cars that essentially try to out-do the Japanese, or at least copy the Japanese.
By trying to outdo the Japanese cars, Hyundai is faithfully replicating them, in a way, and it's doing so in incremental fashion -- start off with small, inexpensive models, then start building slightly larger ones

The problem is that there was no pizazz, no bling. (And there probably won't ever be any true Hyundai bling -- you think they'll come up with an Audi R8 replica?).
Yet Hyundai started getting noticed in the past few years -- look at the model change in the Sonata series (Hyundai's Accord/Camry). Starting with the 2006 Sonata, they went from stodgy to fairly svelte.
Then, incrementally, they brought out the Azera, a more upscale car, with a 3.8-liter V6 as the top engine. It was pretty snazzy. (I was going to say, "for a Hyundai," but actually it stood on its own as a pretty nice car.)
Now they've brought the increment game up to the entry-level luxury field, with the new Genesis. Finally, there's a Hyundai that stops people on the sidewalk, makes them look around.
The Genesis is Hyundai's answer to, in no particular order, the Infiniti G35 crowd, Toyota's Avalon, stripper versions of BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz. At least, that's the perception.
The car comes with two different power trains: a 3.8-liter V6 with 290 horsepower; and a 4.6-liter V8 pumping out 375 horses (or 368 if you use regular gas instead of premium.) Frankly, with only a very small difference in fuel mileage figures between the two, I'd take the V8. (I drove the V8 briefly last summer, before it was on showroom floors, and there's a big difference in the power. The question will be whether you want to spend $5,000 more to have the bigger engine.)
This year's test model was the base V6 car and it was odd to drive something billed as a luxury car, yet without some of the features we've come to expect in even the near-luxury field -- sunroof and driver seat memory come to mind. You can have these lovelies in an added-on package, but you'd think they wouldn't cheap it out this way. At any rate, at less than $33,000, this car was a bargain in its field.
Why? First off, it does have most of the built-in requisite luxo touches that set it apart from a more down-scale model -- it's quiet, even at illegal speeds; both engines are extremely smooth; the six-speed automatic trans (with clutchless manual shifting, too) is extremely smooth.
Inside, you have all the esoterica you'd expect (minus the memory seats and, yes, you get spoiled with those things) -- fine stereo, unobtrusive HVAC, Hyundai's blue instrument lighting, a shade of blue that is subtly electric, sort of like the blues director Michael Mann used back in the days of "Miami Vice."
Then there are also some odd things -- the dome lights are harsh, a cold shade of pale white, kind of like an old fluorescent tube. It's not inviting. And the Genesis' suspension is firm to the point of jarring. Hit a pothole and you will remember it. It felt a bit like the suspension of a Sonata I drove last year, and it's something Hyundai should think of fixing.
Otherwise, you get a pretty good entry luxury car for less than the competition -- it's the old saw of introducing a car priced to undercut its long-established competition (Toyota, Honda and Nissan all did it with, respectively, Lexus, Acura and Infiniti brands).
With Hyundai, of course, which is replicating this system, the only question seems to be -- why did they call it a Hyundai? Why didn't they think up some high-falutin' name that connotes exclusivity? Well, maybe they realize that car buyers see those dodges (so to speak) and would rather just call a Hyundai a Hyundai.
SPECIFICATIONS
2009 Hyundai Genesis rear-wheel-drive four-door sedan.
Price: test model, $32,250
Powertrain: 3.8-liter, V6 290-horsepower; six-speed automatic transmission.
Curb weight: 3,748 pounds. Seating capacity: five. Fuel consumption: 18 mpg, city; 27 mpg, highway.
Fuel tank capacity:19.3 gallons.
Length: 195.9 inches; width, 74.4 inches; height: 58.1 inches; wheelbase: 115.6 inches.
Warranty: bumper to bumper, 5 years/50,000 miles; power train, 10 years/100,000 miles.
Dependability: Hyundai ranks 14th (above industry average) out of 37 brands on the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Vehicle Dependability Study.
Safety: for vehicle safety ratings, visit the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Source: Hyundai Motor America; U.S.Environmental Protection Agency --