Many car brands and brands in general have several classes of their products, which I call the 3, 5, 7, BMW for example has the 3, 5 and 7 series of it’s cars, named upon level of luxury, engine power, size,etc. , the 3 is a entry level luxury car, 5 is a executive, larger than the 3 series and the 7 series if the flagship, there’s others as well, but these are the main ones.
The 3, 5, 7 is also used by Intel and AMD for their processors with the Intel/AMD Ryzen 3 being good enough, 5 being mid level and 7 being the high end.
With Audi, I believe it’s A4 - 3, A6 - 5 and A8 - 7
In the world of Mercedes this would be what? I am pretty certain that the Mercedes C class is the “3”, but what about 5 and 7?
Also, what about other car brands like Ford, VW, Peugeot, Fiat,etc?
Toyota, Lexus ( Toyota also has trim levels L, LE, SE, XLE, and XSE.)
Mercedes doesn’t go this way it’s
K" Kompressor “C” Coupe “S” Sedan “E” Einspritzer (fuel injection) “G” Gelaendewagen (off-road vehicle) or Grand “D” Diesel “T” Turbo or Tourer “S” Sport “L” Leicht (Light weight) “CLS” coupe leicht sport “SL” Sport Leicht ( sport light) “SLK” Sport Light Kompressor Mercedes then started to designate cars by class A,E, C, R, M, G. These Class letters do not appear to have any particular meaning.
At the most basic for recent sedans C is the least expensive, E is the executive (middle) class and S is the Special class. But it is not as firm as BMW since some of the C and E cars might share a body and differ mainly in engine and trim levels.
BMW does not do that. And there were even numbered BMW series that were high end coupes: 6 and 8 series. Plus BMW lists the engine sizes, a 3.5 in the model name meant 3.5 liters. Mercedes does that also, an S550 is a 5.5 liter S class.
There are numerous modifying letters for both manufacturers.
It used to be that way with BMW, where the 335 was a 3.5-liter, but not anymore. For example, the 330i is a 2.0 liter. Higher numbers generally correspond to more features, power, etc. within the series. With options though, that isn’t a strict rule.
Many manufacturers do this, though I’m not clear if OP is asking about just luxury cars? Generally a subcompact, compact, midsize, and fullsize sedan.
Some of these luxury marques aren’t even that clear. Toyota Land Cruiser and Lexus LX are basically the same vehicle and a similar price, with mostly trivial differences. Only $1065 apart.
Mazda2 was sold in the US until 2014 I think. Can verify with Wayback Machine.
They need to bring back Mazdaspeed3 etc.
Citation needed. I can’t read Chinese, but a scan of the Wikipedia page suggests they use Buick for at least some of the models? GMC is basically a pixel shift of Chevrolet and that make is doing great.
In Europe BMW has all the digits from 1 to 8 covered for cars, plus X1 through X7 for SUVs, i3, i8, and Z4. As mentioned above, the 2nd and 3rd digits don’t relate to engine size any more. The 116d, 118d, 120d (what I used to have) and 123d all had 2 litre diesel engines but all had different levels of tuning and trim.
It’s true in the US also with the exception that 1 series cars are no longer offered. It’s really not 3, 5, 7 anymore. Even among non-SUV’s the 4 series heavily outnumbers the 7 just looking around in this BMW-heavy area of the US.