subject: Premium Luxury Vehicles [print this page] Drivers can clearly see the passion for a clean design language, technical superiority and dynamic sporting prowess when looking at premium luxury vehicles.
These high-tech vehicles for the luxury class are known for their safe dynamic handling, innovative efficiency technologies and eye-catching design style.
Premium design style
Premium luxury vehicles are immediately obvious, with clear eye-catching design styles that give them a dominant, powerful appearance. They represent a successful synthesis of dynamics and high quality rounded off with intelligent, attractive details.
Powerful lines and a striking front end prepare drivers for the extraordinary performance emphasised in the dynamic lines which give these vehicles an air of enthusiasm imbued with a unique visual tension.
A single-frame radiator grille trimmed with high-quality horizontal chrome struts best conveys this aura of elegance and dynamism while visually lending the headlights more power and tension, and giving these vehicles a supremely confident look.
The consistency in premium luxury vehicle design styles means that the elegance of the exterior design is seamlessly carried through to the cars high-class interior.
A driver-oriented cockpit with a centre console that leans towards the driver with instruments and navigation technologies that are arranged logically and ergonomically means that the driver can quickly observe all the information they need and focus on the road.
Premium vehicle handling
Safe, dynamic cornering performance and optional four-wheel-drive with a sport differential which distributes the tractive force continuously and variably between the rear wheels, provides high agility and thrilling road behaviour in premium luxury vehicles.
The clutches on these vehicles are activated by an electro-hydraulic actuator and, depending on such factors as steering angle, lateral acceleration, yaw angle and road speed, the control unit calculates the most suitable distribution of torque to the wheels.
This means that the corrections the driver has previously had to make to the steering wheel become virtually unnecessary.
Premium efficiency technologies
Premium luxury vehicles are brimming with fuel efficient technologies.
Next generation gearboxes combine the low fuel consumption of the manual gearbox with the advantages of an automatic so that in automatic mode, its control function performs gearshifts swiftly and times them for optimised fuel consumption. The huge spread of ratios covered allows the top gears to operate at low engine speeds.
Energy recovery systems are able to convert kinetic energy into electrical energy during phases when the car is coasting or braking, redirecting the temporarily stored energy back into the vehicle when the car accelerates again. This relieves the load on the alternator and thereby saves fuel.
Finally, the LEDs used in daytime running lights, side turn indicators and rear lights as well as the optional LED headlights consume up to 50% less energy compared to conventional bulbs and are made to last the lifetime of the vehicle.
Yet with this virtual cornucopia of safe, efficient and powerful technologies there is still an ease of use and a driver centric eye for detail that puts the driver firmly yet naturally in control of these power house vehicles.
