What is the difference between a full-size sedan and a land yacht? What is considered a regular full sized car and a land yacht? What cars from the modern era (90s, 00s, 10s, today) are land yachts?
A land yacht is properly huge, but it also has to have a soft ride, vague steering (like a boat) and tremendous body roll when attempting to turn (like a boat). Think of gliding on a sofa.
About the question, what current era cars are most appropriately called "land yachts". I would nominate the now prevalent luxury 3-row SUVs. Though not as vague of steering and under-damped of suspension, they are the closest. Some call them "wealth parade floats". Often found in the wild driving slowly in the left lane.
A land yacht is one of those things that you'll know when you see it.
I think "land yacht" is a trendy term invented very recently, for what used to be called a "car"
They are also known as a LEAD SLED.
There isn't really a modern car I would call a land yacht. When the GM B-Body (Caprice is the most commonly seen B-Body in the 90s era, the chassis underpinned just about every single full size GM car until the 80s and early 90s) went away in the 90s and Ford killed off the Crown Victoria 12 years ago, "land yachts" pretty much went the way of the dodo.
My 1979 Pontiac Catalina is a "land yacht". It's a 4-door sedan whose overall length almost matches a modern extended cab F-150 with a 6 foot bed. The sedan is 18 feet long, 6 feet wide and pretty much fills up a parking space. A modern Ford Taurus is more of a sporty full size car than a land yacht. They don't have much body roll, no front bench seat, you also can't cram 6 people and their luggage inside, seat them comfortably and still have room for a spare tire and jack in the trunk. Haha.
