Category: Executive 
Price Range: £36,452 to £39,202
Remarkable road-holding and handling from Super Handling All-Wheel Drive system, clever safety technology, well finished and equipped, pleasingly compact for an executive car
Ride is too firm, auto transmission could be smoother, engine lacks the expected pulling power
An interesting and welcome alternative to the default-choice German offerings but spoilt by the drawbacks above. If you're going to be an individualist you'd make more of a statement with a Citroen C6.
Price range £36,250-£39,000. On sale in UK September 2006
With just 400 sales planned a year, there's hardly going to be an oversupply problem to depress residual values. Equally, though, demand for pre-owned Legends may not be huge. Expect it to lose value more quickly than those safe-bet German rivals.
Come resale time, residual experts forecast retained values between 38-41%, with a 3.5 V6 EX returning up to 41% of its original worth three years or 60,000 miles down the line, compared with 51% for an Audi A6 3.2 FSI Quattro SE.
