RE: Merc CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake

RE: Merc CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake

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Megaflow

9,345 posts

224 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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That sounds dirty that does...

cloud9

Seriously, that engine is something else. I didn't understand when they dropped the old 5.5 supercharged lump for the 6.2 n/a, because for me AMG's are all about torque, and an obscence amount of it, but this new 5.5 twin turbo is just glorious.

And, not only does it not sound like it's turbo charged, but it also sounds like it's displacing about 10 litres!

hehe

As for the rest of the car, very nice, but does look a little odd from directly rear on.

ghibbett

1,900 posts

184 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Megaflow said:
I didn't understand when they dropped the old 5.5 supercharged lump for the 6.2 n/a, because for me AMG's are all about torque, and an obscence amount of it, ...
As an owner of a car with the 6.2 n/a lump in it, I can assure you it doesnt feel like it lacks torque!!

umRacing

20 posts

139 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Not a totally pointless Niche but theres so much product differentiation going on its as if they are targeting the type of customer who wants to be different purely for the sake of wanting to be different. Its like the G wagen with the bonkers engine. It makes no sense but its just profoundly cool.



Harji

2,196 posts

160 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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I thought Shooting Brakes were two door estates, and this is just an estate. Or are Mercedes re-defining body types again for marketing purposes?

Shooting brake is an awful term for a car anyway and really does come from another era. Or are we going to get ppl referring to the shooting brake like A3 owners refer to their Hatchbacks as Sport Back?

Awesome car though

mackie1

8,153 posts

232 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Having been in the back of a few, the new E class seems to be a step back in refinement compared to the previous model. Noisier in every respect IMO.

MyCC

337 posts

156 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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If Jaguar make an XFR estate that would make for an interesting comparison!

Regards,

MyCC.

sagarich

1,210 posts

148 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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em177 said:
enioldjoe said:
C'mon, lets be having that footage of the 911 Chase. Don't tease us like that.
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infradig

978 posts

206 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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Love it! As the owner of a Chrysler 300 estate and former owner of an old style CLS this thing was made for me. Just need to wait three years and hope enough people dislike the looks that it gets hammered by depreciation .

mig25_foxbat2003

5,426 posts

210 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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That's the first Merc I've felt a lot of want for in a long time. Really good looking beast.

(P.S. Four pages and no mentions of finance/Porsche bias yet?! Or is Dan busily deleting them all? wink )

Cobnapint

8,596 posts

150 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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I'm afraid it doesn't float my boat. I feel the same about this Merc as I do about the latest football season after watching the Olympics - completely emotionless. And to be honest I didn't feel Chris's usual passion coming through in the vid either.

Yes, its fast, makes a great sound and is well built - but I just don't see the point.

You'd also probably have to endure repeated seizures brought on by the flashing ESP light if you were daft enough to take this thing out in the wet.
And the manual up-change we saw in the vid was painfully slow. You can see Chris lean his head slightly forward in subconscious anticipation of the next gears power surge, but it doesn't quite come when expected.

Great car, if you can afford the tyres.

Give me a Panamera any day.

Carlique

1,630 posts

163 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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pits said:
Ford, btw this looks lush


Very nice indeed! Thats something I would seriously be in the market for if they ever produced them.

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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garypotter said:
I think i am with the minority - I do not like this car, the looks or the silly name.

Yes big bhp and rwd which is great for stop start commute to work as millions do in the morning.
Christ you must of hated the vid on the Pirelli classic rally tyre...


mastadriver

10 posts

170 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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sagarich said:
em177 said:
enioldjoe said:
C'mon, lets be having that footage of the 911 Chase. Don't tease us like that.
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Chris Peacock

815 posts

207 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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CH, DId you say you have to pay EXTRA for a locking diff' ?

Does this mean this car comes with a viscous diff or a LSD as standard?


Also to add,........It's not a shooting brake.

Olivera

7,065 posts

238 months

Thursday 20th September 2012
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rob.e said:
Looks good and the AMG version certainly sounds great..

BUT:

- Not actually that big in the boot.
- FIFTY grand!?
Erm, make that £87,400. Fifty grand would have struggled to get you into the equivalent E55 AMG 10 years ago.

However I do like this, and I was actually surprised at just how much boot space there was for a CLS derived car.

Carnnoisseur

531 posts

153 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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MIP1983 said:
Why would you have a panamera over this? Not my kind of car, but it's really nice.
I beg to differ, the Panamera in my opinion, is far more striking, Rear and side profiles of the above resemble a squashed R Class.

jwo

984 posts

248 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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Great video.... However as others have said - more 911 Turbo footage!

thirsty

726 posts

263 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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Another absolutely pointless car from the Germans. Why would they ever build such a car??? Because they can. I love it. smokin

Guvernator

13,103 posts

164 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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It looks OK I guess but not as interesting as some of the other great estate cars of years past IMO.

What I'd really like to know though is why EVERY new car with a slightly elongated rear end is now called a shooting brake. Where did this phrase come from and what does it mean exactly? At any rate it's a wky marketing term so please stop using it. It's almost as bad as the other annoying trend of manufactures insisting on calling every new two door car a coupe now, even when they are clearly not. The long ones are called ESTATE cars and the two doors are called hatchbacks unless they are long, low and svelte.

Phew...glad I got that off my chest!

TACottle

184 posts

152 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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There is something cool about absurdly powerful estate cars.

This is no exception.