LUXGEN7 CEO limousine designed for meetings on the road

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By Brett Davis | October 25th, 2010

This Taiwanese luxury van is a limousine in essence and it offers a new class to the world of ultra-rich decision-makers. It’s called the LUXGEN7 CEO and everything is designed around the two lounges in the back.

It’s not much of a looker from the outside, but touch open the electric sliding doors and peek your head inside and you’ll see what the LUXGEN7 is all about. Neatly nestled into the rear cabin space are two large, first-class-style luxury armchairs covered in Nappa leather. From these, pretty much everything can be turned on or off and adjusted, heated, cooled and anything in between.

Facing forwards, the two seats and the rear room are isolated from the driver’s area up the front via an adjustable centre partition divider. Above this is an adjustable tilt and turn 10.2 inch LCD display which is all remote controlled, of course. This LCD unit is also supported by a cinema-grade media entertainment system using a series of hi-fi JBL speakers; just the thing for business proposals and presentations on the go.

There’s also a array of fold-out tables, laptop supports, personal reading lights, a drink warmer/cooler, walnut trimming and thick wool carpet throughout.

No word yet as to whether the LUXGEN7 CEO will be available in Australia any time soon, or what kind of price tag will be attached to such luxury. We’ll keep you updated in any case.

Henry

The interior shot looks like you’re in an upmarket hearse.
Eric

Not sure if there will be big demand here as we dont have the traffic jams the large cities have.

Eric

Dale

Does this mean you live in Adelaide or Perth? Sydney and Melbourne certainly get some reasonable size traffic jams.

Mythfrances

Really bad ones too. Took me 2 hours to cover 50 Kms from the west to the east side of Melbourne one morning. Half of the journey was even on the freeway.

Dennis

It took me 45 Minutes do to 13 Km’s on Saturday. I hate driving on a Saturday in Sydney!!!

Sprat

These aren’t traffic jams to Seoul and Korea standards. We only live about two and half k’s from work and this can take up to 2 hours by car some days. I now of people who have got out of their cars and walked and left the driver to continue the trip.
Seoul city has a population of 22 million, and is slightly larger the A.C.T. which has a population of around 350000.
To drive from a place called Mokpo to Seoul which is around 400 k’s took us 12 hours one time, with the last 50 k’s taking up 6 of those hours. The tollway has 4 to 5 lanes in each direction from about a 100 k’s out of Seoul. Yes tollway, you pay for the privilege.
I would be happy to sit in those jams any day.

Eric

I love on the Gold Coast. So yes I can see what you mean.

But I have been to Shanghi, Tokyo, Paris and London now they have problems driving in to the CBD.

I saw a docco once on a Japanese family who have a falcon sized Jap car with laptops in the back for the kids to do their home work, It was 2 to 2.5 hours each way for the dad to drop the kids and wife off before he gets out of the car.

I can see why they all want to live here.

Eric

Golfschwein

I think it’s a really good looking bus! The styling is well balanced and classy, with not even a hint of Ssangyongitis.
Asian Stig in German outfit

This car works in Taiwan because the entire country is less than 390kms North-South and its not uncommon to drive the entire length. You could be stuck for up to 8 hours on occassions; it certainly looks comfortable and very lush.

Dale

That begs the question…when stuck on a highway in a traffic jam for a number of hours, how does one ‘relieve’ his bladder? Carry some empty bottles in the car?

Asian Stig in German outfit

there are plenty of truck stops/driver revive stations are along the way
Eric

The guys who work up in the really tall crane towers pee in the same bottle they just drank from.

Eric

alex

The front looks very Honda/Hyandai/Peugeot
Shak

I dont think it looks half bad, both inside and out, but i agree with all above comments, that it probably wont work in Australia, but it seems tailor made for the home country. lets hope they can come up with more mass market cars in the future. Good luck to them.

http://www.facebook.com/leong.jon Jon Leong

It is base on a Mass market car… the Luxgen7 MPV. Which have 8 seats and looks the same as this Luxgen7 CEO.

In Asian country, 7-8 seater MPV have a huge market and they sell like hot cakes. Reason being is that ownership cost for a car over there is really high (parking etc), having a second car is not an option except for really wealthy families. Therefore they would want to have the most amount of seats per car.

Shak

Sorry, i should have been more specific, i meant something like a hatchback, or the new trend, the SUV/Compact SUV/SAV

Arky

Needs fold-out jump seats at the sides for personal assistants. And for the two CEO seats to have separate center arm-rests.
Dave S

I dont care how much gear it has on the inside, on the outside it looks like you are travelling in a cross between a i30 and an Imax. Give a regular limo any day.

KLY

keep in mind that this is not made for Australia, there are not “regular” limos in Taiwan.

stevo

There are plettty limos in Taiwan, since last visit I saw at least 5 Maybachs (which you dont even get to see in Sydney metro often) and surprisingly plenty of Rolls Royces and dont forget about countless S600L (which I was in it to my hotel). Anyway Luxgen is a brand builds cars for mass market. Even they call it CEO, it is more like for Small Business owners who want extra luxury but wont break their anual budget. I think it will certainly work everywhere in the world, not only in Taiwan, and well done Luxgen!!

Chairman

Lacks the caracter of a Korean built Ssangyong.

A Stavic with Chairman features (I’ll nickname this hybrid “Chairman MPV”) would be much better apponited and much more stylish.