Originally Posted By: Shotgunjones
It's a British marketing term.

No more, no less.

People get all caught up in the terminology as if it means something.



This...precisely. It doesn't relate to any generally accepted standard. It was just a marketing term.

Imagine 100 years from now a guy is showing his 2020-vintage BMW to someone, and the other says, "What was it that made this car so great back then?" And the guy responds, "Well, it was the ultimate driving machine."

That's literally what we're talking about. A marketing term adopted to get 'men of means' to dig deeper into their pocket...so they could proudly tell their mates they "bought the best."

NDG