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new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door CoupéThis is a discussion on new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé within the The Mercedes-Benz Lounge forums, part of the Mercedes-Benz category; Originally Posted by warot no such thing as a 4 door coupe sorry... no such thing as a 4 door ... |
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04-04-2008, 07:09 PM
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| Re: new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé I'm sorry, a lot of wors are evolving. That is normal. Coupe means "cut", so it will always mean that, no evolution allowed? Then, it is not a coupe but a 2-door sedan that is meant, not a coupe which sometimes has nothing to do with the sedan it comes from! So a Golf 2-doors is a Coupe, but a CLK (which does not look like a sedan minus 2 doors) is not, right? I'm sorry. Today, coupe means a car with a coupeish line. The Mazda RX-8 looks like a coupe, the CLS too. Why not calling them from what they look like? Because of obscure historical reason that nobody care about? The CLS has much more in common with a coupe than with a sedan, for me. Same with the RX-8. Coupe with 4-Doors is the best way to describe the CLS. I don't see why you don't like it.
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| Re: new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé Cls is the only Merc I love & I think, it's the only Merc that looks like a car not built by Merc  ...!She's got more of passion factor then pleasure, unlike other Mercs  ...!
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| Re: new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé For me the CLS just looks like a coupe, and it's only afterwards that you see it has 4 doors. Hence the name. But to each his own. What I wanted to say, however, is that Coupe-4 doors is not a shocking name, it just shows the evolution of the cars, and the evolution of names. Honestly, Coupe-Cabrio by itself has no meaning at all, a Coupe cannot have a folding roof. But it's the best way to describe a 2 doors car with a metal-folding roof. Looks like a Coupe, but in fact is a cabrio. Same with the CLS. Looks like a Coupe but in fact has 4 doors.
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| Re: new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé When it comes to the CLS its more about what the eye sees then what the name says. Out of all 4 door sedans Mercedes has done the best job creating the illusion of a four door coupe. Personally don't care about sedan and coupe classification too much, what makes the CLS special to and most people who like it, is the sexiness. No other four door sedan ooze the same level as sexual attraction as the CLS. |
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| Re: new Mercedes CLS commercial: "suddenly, everyone wants to build a 4-door Coupé For me, and I've always maintained this, the overall presentation of the concept of a coupe lies not in the number of appetures a car has but rather the overall proportion and silhouette that a car has. In the modern idiom of the concept I think that cars like the CLS and RX-8 are true coupes irrespective of their number of doors. In my mind a true coupe's salient features are an elongated profile with a shallower than normal DLO and high belt-line. The silhouette should exhibit a low and cab-backward form with the emphasis on a sleek and powerful profile. A fastback with 5 doors and an upwardly hinging tailgate (hatch) is not a coupe. So, in my mind, Mercedes' execution of the CLS is true to the concept of a coupe whilst BMW's X6 is not.
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