S-Class Coupe to Replace CL Class at Mercedes-Benz
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TTAC Staff
Published: September 11th, 2013
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Mercedes-Benz more or less created the four-door luxury coupe segment with the CLS, a large car with all the amenities but a sleeker, sportier roofline. Now, it appears that the German automaker is bringing the CL coupes back into the S-Class fold, introducing the new two door Concept S-Class Coupe based on the S platform. It shares the same 449 HP twin turbo V8 as the recently introduced S-Class sedan as well as the S-Class’ well received interior, but in a body shape that has softer, more elongated lines than the sedan along with wraparound taillights and dramatic front end styling similar to that seen on the Concept Style Coupe show car. That nose, though, will likely not make it to production.
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everyone swears that the classic Benz's were the best looking. I personally feel the W222 was NOT AS ATTRACTIVE as my W221 and I think this new CL-replacement is too much like the BMW6. the current CL is a fine vehicle and extremely stylish with its pillarless coupe. You can get them less than $60,000 with low mileage. If you think you could hold one 10 years, I'd keep one because they come with just about all the tech a car could have. My problem with it is the roofline is too low.
Interesting that while Audi has always separated coupes from sedans and BMW is increasing the segregation as well (hello 4 and 2-series) Mercedes is rolling the coupes back into the same model designations.
What a bunch of sheep so called 'car aficionados' are... 4-door COUPES...My ass. Fastback sedans, maybe. Every real car guy worth his gear head status should object and call them what they are... 4-dr sedans. Stop calling them coupes. That said, I just love the original first gen CLS sedan, finding it one of the most thoroughly wrought designs of the post war period. And even though it is a sedan, and I have no use for sedans unless they have long roofs, I have flirted with the idea of acquiring one, unfortunately another MB stands waiting in the wings. Back in the late forties my Dad bought a 48' Pontiac 4-dr 'Silver Streak' sedan. Those Pontiac's 4-dr's, whether Torpedo's or Streamliners, 'A' or 'B' bodies, were never called coupes. The point is, these body styles have been around a long time, and no OEM attempted to call them coupes back then cuzz they would have lost their credibility as the public would have instantly called them on it. Now days, marketeers just walk over a compliant public. I have great memories of that old Silver Streak, and one not so good when my hand got caught in the rear door by the hinge when my brother slammed the door shut. A Painful experience I still remember vividly. By the way, by the mid fifties, that Silver Streak donated its engine to a dual engine Bonneville streamliner, sixteen cylinders, all in a line, a car I watched being built. A fascinating thing for a youngster to watch grow from parts on the shop floor to a living breathing, fire belching streak of silver.
What on Earth does the CLS have to do with this?!? It has NOTHING in common with the CL, except those two letters. The CL has always been a coupe version of the S-class, ever since it used to be called the SEC; the CLS has always been a squished-down and more expensive variant of the E-class. Why is the latter even mentioned in an article about the former? Does this mysterious "TTAC Staff" writer -- and since when does TTaC use this insipid byline, and why? -- know anything at all about Mercedes cars? Sheesh.