Wednesday 1st April 2015

Mercedes GLC Coupe 'design study sketch'

The Mercedes SUV offensive continues with X4-rivalling GLC Coupe previewed

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Who understands the new Mercedes naming strategy? Everyone? Good, then you'll have no problem translating 'GLC Coupe' to a production-spec Mercedes product.

For those less clued up, it's essentially a C-Class sized swoopy SUV. 'GL' denotes a Mercedes SUV and then the third letter assigns it to a segment. See GLA, GLE and so on. See it as a BMW X4 rival (yes, there clearly is demand) with a more conventional GLC surely arriving as an X3 competitor soon. For now it's nothing more than a design study for the Shanghai show but Mercedes states it is a "near-production-standard study." Mercedes typically keeps its production cars fairly similar to the concept (see S-Class coupe concept to the real thing) so expect something closely resembling this car on a motor show stand soon.

 

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[Oddball RS]

Design Study.

Read kid with crayons and some spare Lego wheels.

[EricE]

Oddball RS said:

Read kid with crayons and some spare Lego wheels.

So the same guys who designed and greenlighted the CLA?

[Dempsey1971]

1st April?

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EricE said:

Oddball RS said:

Read kid with crayons and some spare Lego wheels.

So the same guys who designed and greenlighted the CLA?

I am ceaselessly amazed by just how horrible modern Mercedes have become.

[jke11y]

anonymous said:

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The newly launched GLE coupe is the x6 rival. They've also seemingly binned the ML as the new GLE looks more or less identical but has a different name.

And to think it was noteworthy in the early 90s when the letters went from the end of the numbers to in front

[swisstoni]

I actually think MB have turned the corner styling-wise. From turning out some of the most crassly styled cars of the last several years, the SLS was nice and the AMG GT looks good too despite the corporate gob.

[AlmostUseful]

EricE said:

So the same guys who designed and greenlighted the CLA?

Do you reckon they looked at the A3 saloon and thought "st, so you can build a good looking small saloon after all"?

Must have. The cla is awful.

[Erdy]

AlmostUseful said:

Do you reckon they looked at the A3 saloon and thought "st, so you can build a good looking small saloon after all"?

Must have. The cla is awful.

Looks like someone grabbed the arse of the a-class clay model and just pulled.