RE: Mercedes S-Class Coupe: Review

[ellisd82]

That is one seriously good looking car!
Just need a lotto win!

[crostonian]

Perhaps the change in name was on their minds when thinking about residuals. The previous CLs must be candidates for the biggest depreciators of all time mainly due to their sub standard build quality and huge repair costs. Any car in this segment will always lose fortunes but the build quality will determine whether its a £5k or £15k car after 10 years and 100k miles.

[robemcdonald]

Why is it every time a coupe is launched someone wheels out that picture of a Laguna coupe and claims they are identical?
They are both coupes in similar colours. That's it.

[dbdb]

I'm sure it will be impressive to drive, but ye Gods it's ugly! Absolutely gopping. I can't understand how so many posters admire its appearance. I must be very out of step with current trends in taste.

[Carl_Docklands]

I wonder if someone will spec one up to £200k?

Check this one from 2011:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

[FrankUnderwood]

pSyCoSiS said:

I don't know why, but I am really not feeling this car. It just seems to fussy and not elegant like the CL is.

Perhaps I will change my opinion when I see one in the flesh....

I think that's what I'm not so keen on, Merc do it best when it's simple, clean and elegant.

[Northernchimp]

Back of it looks like a Laguna coupe.

[mikey P 500]

Looked great in real life at goodwood this weekend. I have a facelift e coupe and this looks like a bigger nicer version of it.

[mboyle4]

It's a nice design if a little fussy in places particularly the side profile sweeps, not quite as elegant as the w209 clk coupe:

Edited by mboyle4 on Monday 30th June 22:30

[speedjockey]

Stop crying about the lack of RWD in the UK. BMW fails to offer RWD in Canada with the exception of the ///M cars & it's depressing.. Mercedes only RWD option over here is the C63 & SLS!

[neil1jnr]

mrclav said:

hich no-one cares about - how many Renault Laguna coupe's have you ever seen on the road?

The Laguna is the better looking car.

[okie592]

Still reminds me of a stretched out Laguna coupe

[XJ40]

dbdb said:

I'm sure it will be impressive to drive, but ye Gods it's ugly! Absolutely gopping. I can't understand how so many posters admire its appearance. I must be very out of step with current trends in taste.

I think it looks decent.... for a modern large coupe. I've learnt to modify my tastes to fit modern car design, it's all relative. I agree that it looks quite bloated and chintzy compared with more clean, elegant designs from the past, but show me a modern car design that doesn't. We are where we are, I try to judge modern car designs against other modern car designs, I think this one stands up quite well in the scheme of things.

[Prawnboy]

mboyle4 said:

It's a nice design if a little fussy in places particularly the side profile sweeps, not quite as elegant as the w209 clk coupe:

Edited by mboyle4 on Monday 30th June 22:30

i wont argue with that

[toppstuff]

okie592 said:

Still reminds me of a stretched out Laguna coupe

In the flesh it doesn't look like a Laguna at all.

It is much more imposing.

[NotThatHamilton]

mrclav said:

Escort Si-130 said:

Wow, scary resemblence

zeppelin101 said:

That's a Renault Laguna isn't it?

Which no-one cares about - how many Renault Laguna coupe's have you ever seen on the road?

I think i've seen two Laguna Coupe's since they were first sold, before that I thought they were a urban myth!

[pSyCoSiS]

Contigo said:

The new S63 AMG ad is great. Was subjected to it every 30 mins during goodwood Youtoob coverage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC1_HAzuEI

See, now in that video, the car does look like something special and sounds epic too.

For me, however, I still think the new S65 AMG saloon is one of the best looking current Mercedes models...

[pSyCoSiS]

FrankUnderwood said:

I think that's what I'm not so keen on, Merc do it best when it's simple, clean and elegant.

Now that is understated elegance at it's best. Those Pagoda SLs are beautiful cars.

[samro]

What chance a convertible, do we think?

[RedRob67]

It looks better in the metal - there's a real muscle car look to the rear quarters. It's a great GT - the AMG will cruise all day long, then switch it to Sport and it becomes a "proper" AMG. It also sounds great (especially in a tunnel!).