5 Used Luxury Cars That Will Make You Look Rich for Less Than $20,000

Few SUVs are more highfalutin' than the Range Rover, and you can find a used one that looks more or less like the current model for much less. Land Rover has overhauled the Range Rover only once since 2001, nd that shift from third-gen to fourth-gen was not a dramatic visual departure. We’d stay away from those tempting dirt cheap ones, but for around $20K, you can score a decent early 2010s model.

A Jaguar is the definitive upper-class purchase. It’s all about style and Britishness. The XJ is the luxury flagship sedan. You can score an Ian Callum-designed X351 from the early 2010s with low miles for $20K. Judging from Bring a Trailer auctions, you could also go the truly old-money route and score a more classic-looking earlier generation for less than $20K.

A Porsche is a Porsche to the untrained eye. You can score a 2005-2006 987-generation Boxster with very reasonable mileage for $20,000 — and be considered a Porsche owner like any other by yourself and many others.

Maseratis are Italian, exotic and expensive. Few people know anything about them beyond that. Used ones depreciate heavily; you can also find them with low mileage fairly easily, because few owners are using a Maserati as their daily commuter. For this exercise, you can buy the Quattroporte sedan (2003-2012) for less than $20,000.

The R107-generation Mercedes-Benz SL roadster, built from 1971-89, is one of Mercedes’ most iconic cars. It’s more timeless than its successors; it’s also, by classic car standards, cheap. Mercedes sold more than 200,000 of them in the U.S., and many of them spent pampered lives as weekend cars. You can spend more than $20K on one, but you can also find one in reasonable shape for under that.

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