

(After all, the Germans make great performance sedans.) But it’s also a pity, because while each of those countries manufactures high-end sedans with their own handling characteristics, design traits and cabin feel, there’s continued pressure to make them somehow “German” in look or feel. In some ways, that perpetual comparison is fair.


How does it hold up to a Merc, a BMW, or an Audi? It’s true for the Japanese, the Americans and the British - the latter, of course, meaning Jaguar, since Bentley and Rolls-Royce more or less own their own categories. That’s the yardstick against which performance-sedan traits are measured in the minds of both the media and consumers. All luxury vehicles with sporting pretensions must take their fight to the Germans.
