Mercedes CLS Revised to Face New Wave of Rivals
The sedan-in-coupe’s clothing from Benz stirred up a whole mess of trouble in the German car market when it was released.
It pretty much invented its own genre, combining the curves of a coupe with a usable rear seat… and featuring one of the sexiest front end’s on any contemporary Merc.
Now that the car’s been out for awhile, the other Deutchmachers have got their shit together as BMW came out with the 5-series GT, Porsche squashed the Cayenne to birth the Panamera and even VW attacked the up-market with the Passat CC.
Not to be caught napping, M-B has facelifted the CLS to fit in a little more closely with the rest of their lineup. To be honest, I prefer the original but the new incarnation is still pretty sexy. The shape remains largely the same, but the headlights are a bit flatter, the grille more pronounced, and of course the whole thing is gleaming with LEDs as is the style these days.
What do you think?
BMW Confirms Rival for Merc CLS
All the cool Germans were doing it.
Mercedes-Benz has the CLS, Porsche has the Panamera, and now BMW has finally decided to get with the program by deciding to build an obnoxious status-symbol car that only complete dickheads would drive in the middle of a recession.
Vye Nicht??
That being said I think the CLS is sexy as hell despite not really having any practical use outside of double dates to horse races or whatever rich dudes do with their trophy wives.
Interestingly enough, I think the Bimmer looks exactly like a combination of the CLS and the Panamera.
God those kidney grilles are getting huge.
I’m guessing the production car won’t look quite as aggressive as that concept, but when you’re building a car for the show-off market you’ve got to strap some serious sculpting to it.
The Gran Sport is scheduled to be released this year, so keep checking RoadRoving for production pictures when they out.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mention?
It’s called the Gran Sport. Yikes. That takes the sexiness level down no less than three notches… how am I supposed to handle myself around the high-class prostitutes I bought this car to impress when I can’t stop thinking about my granma.
Come on, BMW- what was wrong with the number-letter names?
