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The Best Luxury Cars Without the Luxury Badge

Last updated: Sep 27, 2019 at 3:10PM
Published on: Mar 3, 2017 by tgriffith

When someone buys a luxury car, he or she is not just buying heated rear seats, autonomous driving capability, and an overly complicated infotainment system. The buyer is investing in a little thing called prestige.

Prestige is what you get when you buy a high-end Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Lexus, Jaguar, or the like. Prestige is the thing that makes people look at your car and think, “I wonder what that guy does…”

When non-luxury automakers attempt to build a luxury car, they can fill it with all of the luxury features and goodies they want, but it will never have the prestige of the luxury brands.

If you want all of the luxury that modern vehicles have to offer but could pass on the prestige, check out these cars.  Continue reading >>>

Filed Under: Car Lists, Car Shopping Tagged With: best near-luxury cars, Ford F-150, Ford Fusion, Genesis G80, GMC Denali, Honda Accord, Luxury cars, Nissan Maxima, non-luxury luxury cars, subaru legacy, subaru outback

Cars That Have Gone From Bland to Grand

Last updated: Dec 9, 2019 at 3:42PM
Published on: Oct 24, 2014 by tgriffith

Remember how the Optima used to look?
Remember how the Optima used to look?

Automakers know that boring doesn’t sell like it used to.

Think back a decade or so, and I’ll bet you can name five boring cars right off the top of your head. I know I can. There were still a lot of beautiful and fun cars in existence, but plenty of mass-produced cars back then didn’t have anything to offer in design, power or handling.

Today some of those same models have experienced a renaissance and have gone from completely bland to utterly grand.

Keep reading for some of the cars that have graduated from transportation appliance to royalty of the road.

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Filed Under: Car Lists, Car Shopping, Domestic Cars, Foreign Cars, General Chat, United States Tagged With: bland cars, boring cars, Car Minded, car transformations, Chevy Malibu, exciting cars, Ford Fusion, honda cr-v, Kia Optima, Toyota Camry

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