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Compact executive car is a mainly British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 car classification
Car classification

Car classification is subjectivity since many vehicles fall into multiple categories or do not fit well into any. Not all car types are common in all countries and names for the same vehicle can differ by region....
 term applied to premium cars smaller than executive cars. In American English, they are usually referred to as Entry-level luxury car.

Dimensionally, these vehicles are often shorter than large family car
Large family car

A large family car is a Europe car classification of automobile which are larger than a small family car and smaller than an executive car. Models designed by luxury car automaker are also called compact executive cars or simply compact executives, while a multi-purpose vehicle based on a large family car is called a large MPV....
s, and the rear leg room and boot/trunk size is smaller to accommodate larger engines.






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Compact executive car is a mainly British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 car classification
Car classification

Car classification is subjectivity since many vehicles fall into multiple categories or do not fit well into any. Not all car types are common in all countries and names for the same vehicle can differ by region....
 term applied to premium cars smaller than executive cars. In American English, they are usually referred to as Entry-level luxury car.

Dimensionally, these vehicles are often shorter than large family car
Large family car

A large family car is a Europe car classification of automobile which are larger than a small family car and smaller than an executive car. Models designed by luxury car automaker are also called compact executive cars or simply compact executives, while a multi-purpose vehicle based on a large family car is called a large MPV....
s, and the rear leg room and boot/trunk size is smaller to accommodate larger engines. While they offer the buyer less equipment, inner room or engine for the money, the material and building quality is higher and the nameplate
Nameplate

A nameplate identifies and displays a person or product's name. Name plates are usually shaped as rectangles but are also seen in other shapes, sometimes taking on the shape of someone?s name....
 itself is part of the value proposition. Compact executive cars are usually available in saloon, estate
Station wagon

A station wagon in American English, Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English usage and an estate car in British English usage, is a passenger automobile with a car body style similar to a sedan but with the roofline following the full, sometimes extended rear cargo area, i.e. ending with a more vertical door...
, coupé
Coupé

A coup? or coupe is a closed car body style, the precise definition of which varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, and over time. Coup?s are often hardtopped sports cars or sporty variants of sedan body styles, with doors commonly reduced from 4 to 2, and a Close-coupled sedan interior offering either two seats or 2+2 seating ....
 and cabriolet
Convertible

A convertible is a type of automobile in which the roof can retract and fold away, converting it from an enclosed to an open-air vehicle. Many different car body styles are manufactured and marketed in convertible form....
 body styles.

This market segment
Market segment

A market segment is a subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product and/or service needs....
 is fairly new, pioneered by the BMW 3 Series
BMW 3 Series

The BMW 3 Series is an entry-level luxury car/compact executive car manufactured by the German automaker BMW since May 1975. Successor to the BMW New Class, it has been produced in five different generations and in no less than five different car body styles....
, which found consumer demand for a small but upscale saloon in the late 1970s, as well as Volvo
Volvo 200 series

The Volvo 200 series was a range of mid-size cars produced by Volvo Cars from 1974 to 1993, with more than 2.8 million sold worldwide. Also designed by Jan Wilsgaard, the 200 series replaced the Volvo 140 and Volvo 164, and overlapped production of the Volvo 700 series introduced in 1982....
. The luxury car nameplate Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
 then branched down to create the 1982 competitor Mercedes-Benz 190
Mercedes-Benz W201

The Mercedes-Benz W201 was the last incarnation of the Mercedes-Benz 190 nameplate. It was a sports sedan/compact executive car produced by the Mercedes-Benz division of Daimler-Benz....
. The class then grew with the arrivals of the Rover 600
Rover 600

The Rover 600 Series is a compact executive car produced by the British car maker Rover from 1993 to 1999.The Rover 600 exterior was designed by Rover, a complete re-skin of the Tochigi-developed Honda Accord, also built in the UK by Honda in Swindon....
 and Audi A4
Audi A4

The Audi A4 is a compact executive car produced by the Germany automaker Audi since 1994. The first generation A4 succeeded the Audi 80.It is available as a sedan or a station wagon ....
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See also

  • Category:Compact executive cars for a list of cars categorized as such
    • Luxury car
    • Compact car
      Compact car

      A compact , small family or c-segment car is a car classification of automobile which are larger than a supermini car and smaller than a large family car....
    • Executive car
      Executive car

      Executive car is a British English term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car. In official use, the term is adopted by EuroNCAP, a European organization founded to test car safety....
    • Large family car
      Large family car

      A large family car is a Europe car classification of automobile which are larger than a small family car and smaller than an executive car. Models designed by luxury car automaker are also called compact executive cars or simply compact executives, while a multi-purpose vehicle based on a large family car is called a large MPV....
    • Mid-size car
      Mid-size car

      A mid-size car is the North American and Australian term for an automobile with a size between that of a Compact car and a full-size car. In Europe, cars of a similar size are often referred to as large family cars, or executive cars....