What You Get When You Pay $72,000 for a Sedan

The BMW M550i earns its pricetag by acing the basics.
Source: Bernhard Limberger

Automakers are slicing the luxury sedan segment so thinly these days it’s enough to make your eyes glaze over.

It takes real time to discern—or possibly, even care about—the difference between an XF, 5-Series, E Class, or an A6. (Porsche, to its credit, has made the Panamera seem somehow separate from those—it looks and drives substantially different—but that’s a different column.)