LuxgenS3

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Origins

The S3 of 2016 took Luxgen into the subcompact saloon class: a conventionally handsome small four-door with the marque's habitual technology generosity — large touchscreen, camera systems — and a 1.6-litre engine tuned for Taiwan's urban duty. It faced the segment's brutal economics: Toyota's local dominance, thin margins, and a mainland Chinese market by then producing comparable cars at lower cost. Sales stayed modest, and the S3 marked the last expansion of Luxgen's combustion range before the company's pivot — via parent Yulon's Foxconn partnership — toward the electric n7 that would revive its fortunes. The S3 thus closes Luxgen's first era: the national brand's conventional-car ceiling, honestly reached. As a final combustion statement it was modest, which made the electric reinvention that followed all the more striking.