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This is the elite class for the rich and famous - Luxury cars and Super Luxury cars. German automotive brand leaders like Mercedes Benz and BMW cars with other European automotive icons like Audi and Rolls Royce belong to this class. For the owners of these cars, money is of no consequence. They expect only the best and the manufacturers do their best to satisfy them.
Safety features are standard, engine size and power output is massive and most of everything is powered. Top speed will be in excess of 200 Km per hour at the lowest end. Automotive innovation starts in this class before it percolates down to other class of cars. Consider this: BMW has introduced Night vision in many of its recent models like BMW 5 Series Sedans.
BMW Night Vision uses Far Infrared (FIR) technology to "see" humans and animals through an Infra Red Video camera with 36 degree angle of vision. What this means is you can spot someone some 300 meters away - well in time in total pitch dark. Far infrared technology doesn't need any IR light to illuminate. It shows living objects as bright shapes in stark contrast to inanimate objects. Military Technologies like this slowly drift towards civilian applications.