2010 Mercedes E Class Coupe Almost Undisguised

[Chris Akabusi]

The rear looks like a cross between a Passat CC, Lexus IS with the exhaust from the Lexus LS

 

[kraftwerk]

Another shot here...

Stuggart's designers have been on something lately and it's not doing them any good. The styling of this car is a catastrophe.

 

[scumbag]

Got a mate who's a "Quantity Surveyor" - gets really upset when I refer to him as an "Accountant"

I remember someone telling me he was a Stock control auditor.

He really had a downer on my when I said, "Oh, a Storeman!" and fell apart laughing.


Thing was, he actually was a storeman.

I don't know how I slept soundly that night...........the idiot. (He was busy informing everyone in the hotel, in an overtly loud voice, that you can buy a decent quality pair of walking boots for £40. As were in a hotel, in the lakes on a fell walking holiday and having just purchased a pair of reasonably quality boots for an amount more than £40, I had to get involved in the conversation)


(By the way, you cannot get a decent quality pair of walking boots for £40)

 

[st4]

I took it literally as an E-Class Coupe. Doesn't make sense to me in the E-Class, CLS, CLK and CL lineup other than it's to go head to head with the BMW 6 series.

The CLK (209), depsite W211 instruments and cabin materials was based on the C class and was really a posh and heavily revamped C class. It was deemed an expensive rival for the 3 series BMW, and in road tests was compared to a 3 series. Pricing and equipment made it more equivilent to the 3 series than the 6 series

This car, is altogether different. Its mechanically based on the E class (the car above the C) and will cost more than a 212 saloon, pricing it a) well above any C class (bar AMG) b) well above and out with a 3 series buyers remit c) close, if not above, the 6 series. Looking at this car, it will be a proper GT car, unlike the 209 CLK - which is just a very nice car.

Also, it balances the MB range, the CLC is a C class coupe, and the CL is an S class coupe. This is now the middle ground coupe. Before with the 209 the C class had 2 coupes (CLK and C coupe) and no E class coupe, but an CL (S class coupe).

 

[mb240]

More shots here from the back of a trailer and barely disguised at Schipol Airport:

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/12/2010-mercedes-benz-e-class-coupe-spied.html

It's not half bad really, I would like to see the physical size and also it in AMG form, I'd bet it would be a very nice GT-type car.

 

[greekCL]

It might sound a bit weird but I agree with the rest, it does, IT DOES, it reminds me of a lexus? maybe it is the white colour lol lol :-S

I do love the design to bits though ;-)

 

[C240Sport97]

the CLC is a C class coupe

is bit long in the tooth, and based on the 203 and not the current 204

 

[st4]

is bit long in the tooth, and based on the 203 and not the current 204

True, but thats not how the car is marketed and priced. We know better.

 

[hawk20]

Seems to me to be a con if it is to be called an E class coupe since the motoring Press say it is based on the C class (chassis etc). Should be called what it is: the replacement CLK.

And why not a proper E class coupe and cabriolet. They did that in the past with some success and that was when car sales were far lower than in normal years nowadays. The ragtop E class was great and fine for four big adults.

 

[Deadhead]

Its probably me. And I definitely don't claim to be a style guru as a short conversation with the woman in my life or a peek in my wardrobe will amply demonstrate. And I haven't seen the new E or this car in the metal. But...

I thought that the previous C, current E and CLK are/were bulbous and unbalanced in styling. It looks to my eyes as if the new generation is going to be squarer, more purposeful-looking and more coherent in design times.

Of course the cars i really liked were the W202, W124 and so on...