2011 Audi A8L vs. 2011 BMW 750Li, 2011 Jaguar XJL Supercharged - Comparison Tests - Car and Driver
Governments buy big luxury cars to move around the deciders. And lucky mortals use them to celebrate lives well lived and to seal themselves off from the outside world, a world hopelessly short on wood inlays and 14-way power seats. We’ve pulled three such candidates from the luxury-car class, all European—oh, excuse us, one is British—all stretched to the maximum available wheelbase, all with V-8 engines that’ll knock on 100 mph as softly as the knocking that awoke Stalin on... Two of them, the Audi A8L and the Jaguar XJL , are constructed primarily of aluminum, while the BMW 750Li ’s unibody is a mix of steel and aluminum. But for all the engineering sweat that greases these flagships, total combined U. S. sales of the three nameplates in 2010 equaled just 18,052 cars, about the number of Camrys that Toyota sold every 20 days last year. By a windblown chasm, the biggest seller was the 7-series, at 12,253 units, three times the volume of the XJ and nearly eight times that of the A8. Redesigned in 2010, the all-wheel-drive Audi is the longest car here (207. 4 inches), and it packs... Source: www.caranddriver.com
