Top 5 best super-luxury cars 2022

Only the absolute best on four wheels make it into Autocar's super-luxury chart: only the ultra-rare, ultra-expensive, and ultra-luxurious make the cut.

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The majority of the finalists are limousine saloons with enough size to make a three-bedroom semi-detached house look small, but one or two of the world's most demure and desirable SUVs also make the cut.

This is the niche to shop in if you want the ultimate in richness, refinement, sense of occasion, and bestowed status from your vehicle of choice. There isn't a car here that costs less than six figures, and a couple of them might even cost seven figures. So, if you like the thought of being ferried around like Lord Sugar in a car that makes you feel ten feet tall and you can afford the best life has to offer, consider yourself fortunate. Here's a list of items your driver should order. The best super-luxury automobiles currently on the market.

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1 Rolls-Royce Phantom

In 2017, Rolls-Royce took over as the world's most opulent and luxurious luxury vehicle, and our road testers greeted it with a gleaming five-star road test.

Rolls-Royce replaced the most opulent and luxurious luxury vehicle in the world in 2017, and our road testers greeted it with a gleaming five-star road test soon after.

The ease with which you can place such a gigantic car on the road; the tolerance it has for whatever rate of progress suits your trip; the supreme refinement and flexibility of its V12 engine; and the progressiveness of its throttle pedal on step-off are all outstanding.

2 Bentley Flying Spur

Bentley's four-door 'Continental'-series limousine debuted in 2006 as the Continental Flying Spur, but with its biggest model revision yet in 2014, it dropped the nomenclative prefix that links it to Crewe's contemporary two-door GT.

The Flying Spur, on the other hand, is now in its third generation, as evidenced by the prouder, more muscular look, which strongly pulls from the most recent, handsome Continental GT coupe. Crewe's 'junior' saloon also benefits from a new platform created in collaboration with Porsche and featuring four-wheel steering and dynamic anti-roll bars. It also offers the foundation for very superb driving characteristics by better isolating the extremely sumptuous interior from the road. Grip, balance, and steering have all improved noticeably.

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3 Rolls-Royce Ghost

When it debuted in 2009, the Ghost was a watershed moment for Rolls-Royce, marking the start of a change that saw the company's annual production output jump from hundreds to thousands of cars.

The Phantom's understudy has advanced significantly in its second generation. The mechanical underpinnings of the Ghost were formerly taken from the BMW 7 Series, but it now shares the same 'Architecture of Luxury' platform as the Cullinan and Phantom. Rolls-mass Royce's dampers for the front suspension and an active anti-roll bar for the rear axle, for example, assist bring ride quality closer than ever to that of the Phantom.

The Phantom, on the other hand, is very much a car to be driven, whereas the Ghost was designed as a car for the well-heeled driver, and its dynamic character reflects that. It's a little tighter-riding and more nimble than the Phantom (partly due to its smaller proportions), thus it's better suited to the cut-and-thrust of daily driving on congested UK highways than its bigger brother.

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4 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class

The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class is the new standard-bearer for Daimler's Maybach super-luxury brand. It is the wealthiest and most special automobile in what may be the world's most generally regarded and admired limousine range.

According to looks, it was at least as much S-Class as Maybach, and this is the outcome of Daimler's strategy choice a few years ago to widen the reach of the Maybach label by establishing 'halo' Maybach models across some of its more standard Mercedes passenger vehicle lines. The ultra-rare, Simon Cowell-spec Maybach 57 and 62 limousines were also consigned to history at the same time.As a result, the fact that this automobile is 'just' an S-Class might be both its greatest strength and its worst weakness. An S-Class may not have the same drool-worthy curb appeal as a Rolls-Royce or Bentley, but being an S-Class also means this car gets all those advanced active suspension and driver aid technology, which helps to make it so gloriously polished, rich, and cosseting.

The top S650 model's 603bhp twin-turbocharged petrol V12 (but the 496bhp 4.0-litre V8 S580 will also be available in the UK) is hardly audible, and its commitment to comfort and good manners is superb. With an 18cm larger wheelbase than even the long-wheelbase version of the normal S-Class, even the longest-legged passengers will have plenty of room.

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5 Bentley Mulsanne

In principle, a limousine that is distinctly aristocratic, whose presence can be seen from hundreds of yards away, and whose goal revolves around servicing the passenger first and the driver second may seem enticing. But don't worry if the reality of owning such a car doesn't appeal to you nearly as much: the Bentley Mulsanne is available in the super-luxury class as well.

The Mulsanne is a top-level luxury four-door that's grand with a small g. It's deliberately more modest and inconspicuous in look than a specific important British limousine competition. It has a less formal vibe than the Rolls-Royce Phantom, and its interior ambiance is more akin to that of a paneled smoking room in an old gentleman's club than the Rolls-Royce Phantom.

The shine and natural appeal of its wood veneers, as well as the tactile attraction of many of its fittings, are unrivaled.

This large Bentley's motive character has always included a healthy dose of driver attraction. While the Mulsanne doesn't ride as smoothly as some of its rivals, it handles and responds with more vim and zest, thanks in part to its torquey turbocharged petrol V8 engine.

What you get is a car that, while it may not strike the same luxury high-notes as the greatest cars in the class, you may find yourself using more frequently: not only for special occasions, but because it feels ready to enrich a wider range of excursions.