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Road Test: Comparison Test

2000 Super Luxury Sedans over $60,000
Audi A8 vs. BMW 750iL vs. Jaguar XJ8 L vs. Lexus LS 400 vs. Mercedes-Benz S500

By Brent Romans, Senior Automotive Editor
Date posted: 12-17-2000

As far as we know, the NASDAQ is still rolling along at record levels (haven't checked today's quotes). Plenty of people are making plenty of money off high-flying technology stocks. Of course, those people don't seem to include us. If they did, we wouldn't be driving cars around for a living.

But for those of you who are making bales of cash through stock options, IPOs, or the old-fashioned way -- narcotic trafficking -- we've pulled together a few cars you might be interested in buying. And we're talking practical here, not your average 2,000-mile-a-year Ferrari F360 Modena.

For this test, we rounded up the world's best luxury sedans. The only qualification was that they had to cost at least $60,000. Acura, Cadillac, Infiniti, Lincoln Saab, Volvo -- sorry, you have no cars to play with.

We ended up with five sedans: the Audi A8, the BMW 750iL, the Jaguar XJ8 L, the Lexus LS 400, and the Mercedes-Benz S500. A mere $363,806 and 270 gallons of fuel later, we picked a winner.

So, have some Cisco stock burning a hole in your pocket? Are you dying to know which car won? Read on, and Edmunds.com will tell you what is the best super luxury sedan for year 2000.


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