Talk:Luxury car

VOLVO

An another point that shows that Volvo is a luxury brand even when we talk about the US market is the fact that its dealerships are in the 6th place among the luxury brands... [1]

European size segment

Consider adding in the first paragraph, that these cars are also known as the F-segment across Europe.

Small Image Update

Hi all, I just made a few minor modifications to the page. These include: 1. I added more info about the run-off between the Mark Series and Eldorado in the history section. This is specifically because of the prominence in American culture. 2. I added a photo of Arnold Palmer standing in front of a Mark III and removed the old Chrysler imperial photo to highlight the importance of personal luxury cars in the era, both with the general population and celebrities. 3. I removed the Nash Ambassador photo. The reason for this is because the "brands" section featured over-representation from American models, and unfortunately the Nash is the lesser important of the two. The section appeared cluttered, so it was removed 4. I removed the Hongqi photo. Since the east-asia section is quite small and two photos felt cluttered, the Hongqi was removed and the Toyota Century remained. This is because of the greater international importance of the Toyota.

Please share your thoughts on this as we work to improve the page. Did I make the wrong move? Should we re-add those photos? GeorgeRoush5 (talk) 15:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Missing Luxury Brands

Under Brands I think a few are missing.

Koenigsegg, SSC, W Motors, Tesla, Pagani, Gordon Murray Automotive, Aspark, Hennessey, Delage, Rimac, SP Automotive, Czinger, Deus, Zenvo, Rezvani

Certainly many of these don't have much of a reputation yet and/or have just produced one model, but Pagani, Koenigsegg, and Tesla are very well known and are missing. Haik12 (talk) 01:13, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

The majority of what you listed are top end sports car brands - ie they focus on speed and handling. Luxury cars focus on comfort. Price does not equate to luxury.  Stepho  talk  21:04, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

The same can be said of many cars on the grand list then, no?

If Bugatti is there why aren’t Pagani and Tesla? 50.159.63.75 (talk) 00:24, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Is this a joke?

The "Classification standards" section has three bullet points that actually could be taken as "classification standards". The bits about "In <language>, these cars are called <term>" are not "classification standards", but mere trivia.

Also, luxury subcompacts? Are you kidding me/us? You even mention "C-segment" when clearly luxury cars are "F-segment". Nobody would consider a Mercedes A-class a luxury car. Yes, you (whoever wrote or rather hacked together this piece of excrement) tried to CYA with "The term is relative and partially subjective, reflecting both objective qualities of a car, as well as the projected and perceived image of the car marque." but that's still just hogwash. Oh, and the reference? This "Economics Web Institute" doesn't even have a Wikipedia article, for crying out loud! A marque does not a luxury car make. jae (talk) 02:03, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

The term luxury should not be linked to size as currently is done in this article; it seems too much US focused. Starting in the 1960s, BLMC produced luxury versions (defined by characteristics as high-end materials, finish quality, comfort, features, exclusivity) of the mainstream models Mini and 1100 under the labels Riley, MG, Wolseley, Vanden Plas, etc. In the 1970-80s, other European car manufacturers started developing luxury models in the smallest of sizes as well, simply because the clientele didn't always want/need a large car (e.g. for city use only), but definitely did want luxury. In fact, contributing to their luxury offering is that they can get to and park in places where F-segment cars are a burden. Examples of that era are Autobianchi A112 Elegante, Peugeot 104 ZL, Lancia Y10, Innocenti. In the next decades, premium brands started offering small cars as well, think of Audi A1 and A3, Lexus CT, Mercedes-Benz A- and B-class, BMW 1-series, Aston Martin Cygnet. Nowadays, the smallest luxury cars have vanished from the market, simply because small cars (A-segment) are not profitable anymore, so there is no 'normal' car to base them on. Microcars have come around for city use though, and also in that segment, certain luxury can be had, be it offered by after-sales fitters, not by the brands themselves. Yet. Erremm (talk) 07:00, 14 June 2025 (UTC)