Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the pre-motorshow leaked pics season, Geneva style. We had it for Detroit and now with the first big European show just weeks away we’ve got early doors views of some of the cars making their debuts.
Frankfurt 'concept' not really a concept - shocker
Mercedes S-Class Coupe
. Now, this leaked – and apparently official – pic has been doing the rounds online and seemingly reveals that the finished car looks very, very like the concept version shown at Frankfurt. Surprise, surprise - not so ‘concept’ after all!
Expect the official version on the car shortly but for now we can see that the two-door S-Class is going to be a big old beast and, perhaps surprisingly, the styling influence is reaching up from the A-Class (and its derivatives) into the highest pillars of the Mercedes range. So we’ve got that slightly drooped bonnet line, prominent feature lines sweeping along the flanks to stop it looking too slab sided and a traditionally shallow and pillarless windowline.
The latter has been a defining feature of Merc coupes since the post-war period, this S-Class coupe meanwhile following the sleeker form for big two-doors originally laid down by the C215 CL of 1999. Still a handsome beast, you can pick one of those up for as little as £5K in the PH classifieds. Which is tempting.
S-Class Coupe badge last seen on late 90s C140
This new one will probably set you back rather more, the range coming full circle, dropping the ‘CL’ badge adopted by the monster W140 S-Class derived version in 1996 and reverting to the ‘S-Class Coupe’ name that car launched with when it replaced the SEC in 1992.
More details soon. If only we’d just driven a close rival like, say, a newly updated Bentley Continental GT to help put it into context. Wait a minute…
[Sources: The Internet, via Autofilou]