Can someone please tell me the meaning of the style trims of a car ex:(xlt,le,se,xls).?

Question

I am looking into buying a new car and most of them have several models. I'm not sure what those characters mean.

Answer 1

Honestly? They don't mean anything except what marketing says they mean. It's better to compare equipment.

Pick out the equipment that you MUST have in car (power mirrors, power seats, power locks, AC, CD player, etc.) and compare prices that way. DIfferent trims means different things to different companies, and the only way to make sure is compare equipment.

Answer 2

They are all different and they mean whatever the manufacturer says it does. For example, they could say that the highest trim level is called "Bob" and all "Bob" cars have a/c, leather, moon roof, etc. They could have a trim called Jim, Dave, etc.

Nowadays, the most popular way to differentiate them is to name trims with letter designations. Some mean something but most don't. LE generally stands for limited edition. But how limited is a Toyota Camry LE? SE stands for sports edition. But how sporty is a Hyundai Elantra SE? GT stands for Grand Touring, etc.

Answer 3

Hi. I'd ask the car dealer (even if you're not buying off of the lot). But the XLS, LE, SE etc represent differences in the options on a vehicle (you're looking at a ford aren't you?). Like box length, molding type etc.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Depends upon the Manufacturer. "L" usually means Luxury; "LE" is Luxury Edition; S means Sports, Special or sometimes, Sedan; "X" could mean "eXtra Special", "SE" usually means Special Edition, etc. When in doubt, ask the salesperson, check the Manufacturers literature or web site.

Sometimes the designation is meaningless, by the bye; the more letters after the Type the more expensive the vehicle usually is.

Answer 5

It all depends on the car manufacturer, they all use different names for different trim levels, there's not necessarily any rhyme or reason to it.

Honda is the only one I can think of off the top of my head who uses a pretty standard naming convention. DX = lowest model, LX = mid-model, EX = highest end model, but as far as what equipment each trim level gets, it still depends on the car (e.g. an Accord EX has leather, whereas a Civic EX still has cloth).

Easiest way to differentiate the different trim levels is to just look them up in Yahoo Autos -- http://autos.yahoo.com -- they will list the cars in order, from lowest to highest trim level.

Answer 6

If shes 68 you should just be glad you still get to go there and if your 68 you should be glad you still can I'm sure there a few things about you that need help and she just doesn't care cause she doesn't want to go there

Answer 7

if your a tenn ager and want a ricer get the se (sport edition) shoud come withe more hp