What Is The Luxury Car With The Best performance?

This test was carried out by Cars.com. The main goal was to test contenders against each other — on the street and on the track — and find out which is the best luxury performance coupe . The contenders are

• 2015 BMW M4
• 2016 Cadillac ATS-V
• 2015 Lexus RC F

The BMW is an established contender known for its outstanding performance, but the other two are new. Of the three which is the best luxury performance coupe? Lets see the contest.



First, we put the three coupes through a week's worth of testing

• We drove them on a 162-mile real-world mileage course.
• We had our judges drive them back-to-back-to-back on the same pavement to evaluate ride, handling, comfort, acceleration and more.
• We brought in an in-market shopper to test for street manners and more.
• We took them to the Byron Dragway in Byron, Ill., for zero-to-60-mph testing, quarter-mile time and speed testing, and 60-to-zero-mph braking distance tests.
• We took them to the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Ill., for a day on a road course, so our experts could feel how they handled under pressure.

From all of that, we found our winner. Our judges were:

• Joe Bruzek, road test editor for Cars.com
• Mike Hanley, senior editor for Cars.com
• Joe Wiesenfelder, executive editor for Cars.com
• Brian Robinson, producer for PBS' "MotorWeek"
• And Tim May, our in-market shopper, who is 40 and an equipment operator from Naperville, Ill.

The scoring broke down this way:

• 60 percent from the judges' scoring
• 30 percent from the quantitative tests on the drag strip
• 10 percent from the mileage drive

Here's how they finished:

1. 2015 BMW M4

   844 points

2. 2016 Cadillac ATS-V

   803 points

3. 2015 Lexus RC F

   692.2 points

2015 BMW M4 is thus the luxury car with the best performance. It outclassed the other contenders with a clear 43 points. Would that be the perfect car for your garage?

See pictures of the test from cars.com