We've reviewed more over 40 sedans in the last 2 years — here are the 4-doors that impressed us the most

SUVs have been surging, but there are still plenty of great sedans on the market.
We've driven many four-doors over the past few years.
Here are 12 of our favorites.

One of the big stories in the car business over the past two years has been the realignment of sales in the US. Pickup trucks have always done well, but as the market was setting records in 2016 and 2017, SUVs were moving up while sedans were moving down. At the New York auto show, which opened to public on Friday, there's no shortage of SUVs for every purse and purpose on display.

Four-doors aren't the be-all, end-all products they once were, for both mass-market and luxury brands. But for luxury brands in particular, mainstays such as the BMW 3-Series and the Mercedes S-Class have been watching as their SUV counterparts capture new buyers.

Does that mean that sedan is dying? Not really. Ask anybody in the industry and they'll tell you that Toyota Camrys and Honda Accords and even Chevy Malibus are still important vehicles. Audi continues to take four-doors seriously. But it's also clear that a customer can now start out with a small SUV and work his or her way all they up to a big one, and never look twice at a sedan.

Too bad, as there are some great ones for sale. We rounded up a dozen of the best:

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Kia Stinger

Here's what I had to say about the $52,000 test car in our review:

The Stinger takes things to a whole new level. This is easily the best car Kia has ever made, but more than that, it's among the best cars of its type that I've driven. The comparison that jumped immediately to mind was the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, a 505-horsepower beast that was a finalist for Business Insider's 2017 Car of the Year.

BMW 7-Series

We were impressed enough the say in our review that the $90,000 bimmer is "easily the finest 7 Series that BMW has ever built."

Plus, we named it a finalist for our 2015 Car of the Year. The new 7-Series is basically incredible. Crammed with technology and capable of BMW-level performance and pure cruising comfort, it has reset expectations for what is probably BMWs history least-loved car.

Audi A4

In our review of a $52,000 tester, BI's Ben Zhang wrote that the "Audi A4 is everything you could want in a modern compact luxury sedan," adding that "it's the best car Audi has ever made."

The A4 was a finalist for BI's 2017 Car of the Year. It was also one onf those cars that we unanimously adored. We literally couldn't find anything wrong with it. Nothing.

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