Buy/Drive/Burn: $60,000 Luxury Sedans in 2020

by Corey Lewis

Published: September 24th, 2019

buy drive burn 60 000 luxury sedans in 2020

Say you’re an auto shopper of wealth and taste who has around $60,000 to spend. Now, let’s assume the usual options from Japan and Germany are not for you. Would you turn to America or Sweden to fill your luxury needs?

Lincoln Continental

Lincoln’s Continental enters 2020 in three trims spanning three engine options. Prices start at $46,305 for a front-drive Standard trim with 3.7-liter V6, and top out at $75,470 for an all-wheel drive twin-turbo 3.0-liter in Black Label. Most likely in its final model year for 2020, this may be Continental’s last gasp. Today’s budget nets the 2.7-liter all-wheel-drive model in mid-range Reserve trim. The smaller of the EcoBoost choices offers up 335 horsepower via the six-speed automatic. The Continental asks $61,870.

Volvo S90

The S90, now a couple model years old, is offered in three trims for 2020. The entry-level Momentum starts at $51,195, while the top-tier Inscription enters at $54,495 before premium drive trains and options. Meeting our price ceiling is one short of the ultimate S90: the Momentum T8 eAWD Plug-in Hybrid. It pairs a 2.0-liter gasoline engine that’s both supercharged and turbocharged with an 87-horsepower electric motor. The dual-motor setup produces 400 total horsepower motivating all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic. Volvo asks for $63,650 of your dollars.

Cadillac CT6

CT6 is Cadillac’s dedicated “sports sedan,” because without exception, every Cadillac must be sporty. The second-highest entry price of $58,995 for the Luxury trim escalates to more than $96,000 for the Blackwing V8-powered Platinum. Through model year revisions, CT6 eliminated its previous base offering of 2.0 liters and rear-wheel drive. All examples now have at least six cylinders and all-wheel drive. The Luxury trim employs Cadillac’s 3.6-liter engine, which produces 335 horsepower. A 10-speed automatic doles out the ponies. The rear-drive-biased option is the value leader of the group, asking $59,990.

Three alternative luxury sedans for a new decade. Which one’s worth buying?

[Images: Lincoln, Volvo, Cadillac]

#2020 #America #Buy/Drive/Burn #Cadillac #CadillacCt6 #Continental #CT6 #DomesticCars #Editorials #Imports #Lincoln #NewCars #Volvo #Sweden #LuxuryCars #LincolnContinental #Sedans #LuxurySedans #VolvoS90 #NewsBlog #S90 #NewSedans

Corey Lewis

Interested in lots of cars and their various historical contexts. Started writing articles for TTAC in late 2016, when my first posts were QOTDs. From there I started a few new series like Rare Rides, Buy/Drive/Burn, Abandoned History, and most recently Rare Rides Icons. Operating from a home base in Cincinnati, Ohio, a relative auto journalist dead zone. Many of my articles are prompted by something I'll see on social media that sparks my interest and causes me to research. Finding articles and information from the early days of the internet and beyond that covers the little details lost to time: trim packages, color and wheel choices, interior fabrics. Beyond those, I'm fascinated by automotive industry experiments, both failures and successes. Lately I've taken an interest in AI, and generating "what if" type images for car models long dead. Reincarnating a modern Toyota Paseo, Lincoln Mark IX, or Isuzu Trooper through a text prompt is fun. Fun to post them on Twitter too, and watch people overreact. To that end, the social media I use most is Twitter, @CoreyLewis86. I also contribute pieces for Forbes Wheels and Forbes Home.

More by Corey Lewis

Comments

Join the conversation

2 of 102 comments

GoVeg on Oct 05, 2019

Not to be a pill, but all of these choices are truly pathetic. For this sort of money one is in a top-spec Tesla Model 3 Performance, with a drive experience that rivals an exotic hypercar, and while leaving a usable planet for others to enjoy. When you just want to cruise, it has Autopilot, and Full Self Driving is likely a year or two away. Why would anyone buy something else, except out of ignorance or "don't give a damn" social dysfunctional?

Like Reply
MyerShift on Jul 05, 2021

Buy the Volvo for your safety. Drive the Lincoln for cushy comfort. Burn the Cadillac. Sorry- new GM is the same crap as old GM with a shiny new wrapper and lip service.

Like Reply

Recent Comments

Varezhka I have still yet to see a Malibu on the road that didn't have a rental sticker. So yeah, GM probably lost money on every one they sold but kept it to boost their CAFE numbers.I'm personally happy that I no longer have to dread being "upgraded" to a Maxima or a Malibu anymore. And thankfully Altima is also on its way out.
Tassos Under incompetent, affirmative action hire Mary Barra, GM has been shooting itself in the foot on a daily basis.Whether the Malibu cancellation has been one of these shootings is NOT obvious at all.GM should be run as a PROFITABLE BUSINESS and NOT as an outfit that satisfies everybody and his mother in law's pet preferences.IF the Malibu was UNPROFITABLE, it SHOULD be canceled.More generally, if its SEGMENT is Unprofitable, and HALF the makers cancel their midsize sedans, not only will it lead to the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST ones, but the survivors will obviously be more profitable if the LOSERS were kept being produced and the SMALL PIE of midsize sedans would yield slim pickings for every participant.SO NO, I APPROVE of the demise of the unprofitable Malibu, and hope Nissan does the same to the Altima, Hyundai with the SOnata, Mazda with the Mazda 6, and as many others as it takes to make the REMAINING players, like the Excellent, sporty Accord and the Bulletproof Reliable, cheap to maintain CAMRY, more profitable and affordable.
GregLocock Car companies can only really sell cars that people who are new car buyers will pay a profitable price for. As it turns out fewer and fewer new car buyers want sedans. Large sedans can be nice to drive, certainly, but the number of new car buyers (the only ones that matter in this discussion) are prepared to sacrifice steering and handling for more obvious things like passenger and cargo space, or even some attempt at off roading. We know US new car buyers don't really care about handling because they fell for FWD in large cars.
Slavuta Why is everybody sweating? Like sedans? - go buy one. Better - 2. Let CRV/RAV rust on the dealer lot. I have 3 sedans on the driveway. My neighbor - 2. Neighbors on each of our other side - 8 SUVs.
Theflyersfan With sedans, especially, I wonder how many of those sales are to rental fleets. With the exception of the Civic and Accord, there are still rows of sedans mixed in with the RAV4s at every airport rental lot. I doubt the breakdown in sales is publicly published, so who knows... GM isn't out of the sedan business - Cadillac exists and I can't believe I'm typing this but they are actually decent - and I think they are making a huge mistake, especially if there's an extended oil price hike (cough...Iran...cough) and people want smaller and hybrids. But if one is only tied to the quarterly shareholder reports and not trends and the big picture, bad decisions like this get made.