Volkswagen, meanwhile, draws supply of the Tiguan Allspace from Mexico, but five-seat models are German-sourced. MORE: Industry sales results. Rob Margeit has been an automotive journalist for over 20 years, covering both motorsport and the car industry.
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View 4 images. Here then, is the complete list of where our cars came from in When someone describes a car as "class-leading" as in class-leading dynamics, class-leading value or class-leading safety , they more likely mean it's "segment-leading". The passenger car class includes all sedans, hatchbacks, coupes, convertibles and people movers, but broken down into their respective segments, which are decided by the size and packaging of each car, with a pricing threshold so that prestige and semi-prestige cars aren't being compared unfavourably for sales with volume sellers.
Both equate broadly to the 'B' segment in other markets. Not every car sold fits neatly into one or the other segment, but that decision often rests on where the majority of the range sits, relative to the pricing threshold. Toyota Camry has this segment locked up below the pricing threshold, and Mercedes C-Class is the top seller above the threshold. Large cars include Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore. This segment is also home to the Toyota Aurion, which is based on the nominally mid-sized Camry and roughly the same size.
What sets the Aurion apart from the Camry is its six-cylinder drivetrain — and this is one possible basis for a car company choosing to allocate a car to one segment rather than another. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that the Mazda MX-5 will be allocated to the cheapies, the Porsche Boxster makes it into the 'in-betweenies' and the Mercedes-AMG GT is in among the top-shelf offerings.
The Sports segments also end up being a catch-all for models that we might think of as muscle cars — like Ford's Mustang, for instance, and the Nissan GT-R. Judged by footprint, small SUVs are often roughly the same length and width as light cars, but riding higher of course.
The Caprice is actually slightly longer than the LC, but also narrower. Previously, the SUV class hadn't existed. Hiving off SUVs from the light commercial vehicle class reflects the rise of soft-road SUVs — frequently without any off-road capability at all in the case of the two-wheel drive variants.
Sometimes the choice of one segment or another for a particular model will seem arbitrary and controversial. Test Or Save. Type Of Societies.
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