Elsewhere I replied to someone else about this but you ' re just using google ' s definition which isn ' t as good as Merriam Webster ' s , the finest , largest , or most important one of a series , network , or chain the company ' s flagship storeWhich emphasizes fineness and size and is how the term is used in automotive journalism as well as by most people who reference a flagship modelcampusstorewhatever . Also , you ' re still ultimately just making the argument that flagship and bestseller are the same and that ' s fundamentally not how the word is used to describe vehicles in common parlance . I ' m not saying the 3 er is not important , I ' m saying its importance is in ways that are not related to what makes a flagship .