The Mercedes 500 E deserves a spot. Just the complexity of how it had to be shipped back and forth from Mercedes to Porsche and from Porsche to Mercedes in order to shoehorn that torquey 5.0 L V8 into the W124 engine bay that was never designed for it, plus the subtly enlarged wings and higher performance than the…
The real comedy here is that I bet Musk had no idea you could do this. He moved heaven and earth to make a grade of SS steel that was cheap enough for production but also wouldn’t corrode too quickly. Turns out they could have just wrapped standard automotive steel for a fraction of the engineering/material cost, and…
That doesn’t count either, it’s a liftback.
I’m sorry, but if it has FWD, it doesn’t count. FWD can’t match the performance of RWD.
That’s an insult to dip shits.
$4200 to wrap a vehicle that’s all flat panels. There are ZERO complex curves or body lines to follow. This is the automotive equivalent of wrapping a boxed birthday present.
$4,200 on making it look exactly the same.
The Youabian Puma, because it’s the greatest everything of all time. It’s not even a sedan, yet somehow that doesn’t matter.
Since people started suggesting American made sedans I’ll go with the 4-door version of the Hudson Hornet which dominated NASCAR in the early 50's. All the Hornets came with the high output straight 6 and were not that different from the race cars.
BMW never made an E46 M3 sedan, but they sure did make an E90 M3, and it’s glorious.
As you’d expect, I’ve done this properly. The Mitsubishi Evo generations were the best overall. Out the box you could hang with sports cars, even super cars with the FQ series. There were so many one off special editions made like the TME, Zero, There was even a Carbon fiber edition in South America. Excellent both on…
1st generation Saab 9-5 Aero.
Pontiac G8 GXP. A 4.5 second 0-60 in grandpa’s old luxo-barge.
Recency bias and all that, but damn if this 6MT V8 supercharged V8 is not one of the best sedans of all time.
There’s no other answer. Shortest slideshow in Jalopnik history.
14-17 VF Holden Commodore/Chevrolet SS/Vauxhall VXR8
1987 Mercedes-Benz AMG Hammer
Obvious answer is E39 M5 or E55 AMG.
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