These are the sedans that stir men’s souls. Yeah, yeah, that’s not quite what Thomas Paine said in 1776. But if he’d been with us while we were putting this threesome through its paces, he might have been tempted to devote his literary talents to something other than revolutionary pamphleteering. Might even have signed up for a blitz course in German, to put a finer point on the subtleties of these four-door bullets.
The German language would certainly be appropriate because, when it comes to sedans capable of simultaneously indulging a driver’s hedonism and transporting the spirit, nobody does it better than the denizens of Deutschland. Is it the influence of the autobahn, which continues to be the world’s most demanding high-speed-driving development crucible? Or the handling demands of the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife, the fabled circuit used by German carmakers to test their cars, a track that magnifies any dynamic shortcoming a car may have.
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