To put things into perspective, last year’s best-selling subcompact luxury car was Mini’s Cooper with 2,739 units down Canadian roads (thanks to 3-Door, 5-Door, extended Clubman, and Convertible variants), while the subcompact luxury crossover SUV segment’s chart-topping Buick Encore found 6,650 new buyers last year, plus that model’s stretched and modernized Encore GX sibling pulled in another 5,045 for a total of 11,695 units. BMW just came out with an all-new 2 Series coupe, with the updated four-door Gran Coupe expected to follow soon, but the X1/X2 pairing sold 2.3 times more examples in 2020. They’d better get a move on with their long rumoured CDX subcompact luxury SUV, because as noted a moment ago, they’re missing out on an important gateway for Honda HR-V fans (and there are plenty of them) that want something a bit more upscale (will it happen when the soon-to-be nine-year-old HR-V gets a redesign for 2023?). The same goes for its German counterparts, plus Japan’s lone small sedan contester, Acura, that only sold 774 ILX sedans in Canada last year. That’s a good sign for small sedan lovers, but the return of this now niche model is only possible because Audi does so well in the crossover SUV sector. Audi’s A3 and S3 (shown) sport sedans remain popular options in the small luxury car segment, but its Q3 crossover SUV found nearly three-and-a-half times the buyers last year. Certainly, Mercedes-Benz has enjoyed recent success with its affordable new A-Class sedan and hatchback thanks to 2,355 buyers in Canada throughout 2020, plus a reasonable take-rate for its updated CLA four-door coupe at 1,085 units over the same 12 months, while BMW’s new four-door 2 Series Gran Coupe (redesigned for 2022) helped that three-model line stay relevant with 1,358 deliveries last year (the 2 Series Cabriolet will be discontinued for 2022), although Audi’s A3 (plus the S3 and RS3), that was doing decently with 1,720 sales in 2020, saw its numbers fall off a cliff over the first six months of this year with just 131 down Canadian roads, but this was more than likely due to an all-new 2022 model arriving in four-ringed dealers as “pen” goes to “paper” (the A3 Cabriolet was just cancelled, but an all-new 400+hp RS 3 Sedan is expected soon). Let’s face it, small luxury sedans and hatchbacks aren’t selling as well as they used to. Subcompact crossover SUVs are the new gateway to the luxury market sector, so therefore if a premium brand doesn’t have one in its lineup, it’s missing out on an important conduit for conquesting new luxury buyers. Production of the Komendant is scheduled to start early 2023 at the plant in Yelabuga, where five thousand cars can be produced a year.Subcompact luxury cars, like this Mercedes-AMG A35 4Matic sedan, are quickly being overshadowed by entry-level crossover SUVs, such as the same brand’s GLA- and GLB-Class. We visited hundreds of suppliers, and found a large number of solutions, today the plant is operating,” said Nikolai Khodasevich, General Director of Aurus. “We have done a great job during this time. An electric machine and a V-shaped eight-cylinder engine equipped with two turbines, with a total capacity of 598 horsepower and a nine-speed automatic transmission familiar to Aurus Senat owners,” said Artem Yusupov, Aurus Sales and Service Director. “The heart of our vehicle is the hybrid engine. It is even more expensive than the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, which starts at $351,000. See Also : Floyd Mayweather Rides Around In His Matching Custom Rolls-Royce CullinanĪt 33 million 700 thousand rubles or $559,800 dollars (N242 million excluding local taxes), the high-riding luxury SUV will be affordable only for very wealthy people.This is how an SUV worth more than 33 million rubles should be”. The car drove in the heat of plus 50 degrees and in the cold minus 40”, said Artem Vasnev, a correspondent of “MIR 24”, who was one of the first to see the SUV. “Aurus Komendant has been tested under extreme conditions. Named after the Commandant tower of the Kremlin in Moscow, the Komendant SUV joins the Arsenal minivan and the Senat limousine and sedan in Aurus’ expanding lineup.
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