This week it unveiled a prototype version of its 7-Series saloon car that has a hydrogen-powered engine.

ECONOMIST: Hydrogen-powered cars

And Honda's new Insight saloon car is made largely of aluminium and composites.

ECONOMIST: Fuel economy

Councillor Ed Bridges said no decision was made to remove the saloon car category at the recent committee meeting.

BBC: Taxis in Cardiff

Ireland are a nice-looking saloon car that, on closer inspection, has large patches of rust all over the bodywork.

BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | The joy of Six

Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk has branded a New York Times review of his company's electric saloon car as "fake".

BBC: Tesla says New York Times electric car review 'fake'

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, together with two drivers and a 74-year-old party colleague, spent six days sitting in a saloon car on a bridge some 65 kilometres (40 miles) outside the capital, Yangon.

ECONOMIST: Aung San at the bridge