C-Class 2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe Confirmed

[Centurion]

They simply have to do an AMG version with the hotter 481hp engine standard. Do it.

I forgot about that one, but certinaly see an AMG version as a possibly given that there doesn't seem to be an E-Coupe AMG in the pipe line. The CLK/63 was a terrible car: Heavy, crazy expensive and crazy slower than the M3. It simply didn't do anything well. Even from an aesthetic point of view, the comparably priced CLS55/63 was a much more appealing car. The BS and DTM versions were hot though, but limited, expensive and out of reach for the wider CLk customer base.

A long shot would be to anticipate this to be the great sports coupe Mercedes needs. Trying to mould an M3 version out of it would be silly but an AMG version falling between the M1 and M3 would be the ideal position for a prospective AMG version of this car.

 

[SKY]

I hope this is the first step to let the next E-Coupe to trully be an E-Coupe, and see coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W213, and a C-Coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W205.

 

[Tarek]

I crazy slower than the M3.

Crazy slower? u definitely mean around a track coz in straight line the CLK55/63 was crazy fast and then they made the BS one which was crazy fast in both arenas.

Now i have a really bad feeling about this car but lets wait and hope for the best.

 

[Merc1]

I hope this is the first step to let the next E-Coupe to trully be an E-Coupe, and see coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W213, and a C-Coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W205.

Bingo. This is what I've been saying all along. Those who try to say that the current E coupe is a true E-Class don't seem to get this. A true E coupe would be more expensive than the sedan not cheaper. Just because they've hung E-Class suspension pieces off a C-Class platform doesn't make an E class Coupe.

This is a true C Coupe and hopefully the next E-Class (a long ways away) will have a true coupe like back in the days of the 300CE.


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[Nicks]

A true E coupe would be more expensive than the sedan not cheaper.
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they cost around the same

 

[Merc1]

they cost around the same

Ok, whats your point? The only reason the current "E-Coupe" costs the same as the sedan is because Mercedes makes a killing selling a C-Class based coupe for E-Class prices. They can't price the current E coupe above the sedan because buyers wouldn't go for it. It doesn't even have all the E-Class sedan's available features.


The last true E Coupe, the C124 was at least 7-10K USD more expensive than the sedan, that is how a true coupe based on corresponding sedan platform is priced. Look at the 5-Series and the 6-Series or the A4 to A5. You pay a premium for a true sedan platform based coupe, not "around the same". Look at the CL vs the S-Class.

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[Nicks]

i've just said

 

[Mr. Mercedes]

I hope this is the first step to let the next E-Coupe to trully be an E-Coupe, and see coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W213, and a C-Coupe more expensive than the sedan for the W205.

But that's what the CLS is for. There is no more room to move the E-coupe more upmarket in terms of price and positioning.

 

[Mr. Mercedes]

Off course. A Benz is a Benz so it will not be a 1-series coupe but will yet be an alternative -- an entry level coupe. It is a new segment that I anticipate will get bigger. Audi can easilly look in the VAG parts bin and compile a small, attractive coupe.

I was simply replying to your complaint the car isn't as 'manly' as the 1, saying it's not meant to be.

 

[Centurion]

Crazy slower? u definitely mean around a track coz in straight line the CLK55/63 was crazy fast and then they made the BS one which was crazy fast in both arenas.

Now i have a really bad feeling about this car but lets wait and hope for the best.

In a straight line it was fast, but making a car fast in a straight line isn't very difficult. The BS was fast but way too expensive and less civilised than the M3. It was simply a rather poor offering.

Regardan en E-Coupe. The E-Coupe is the CLS.

 

[K-A]

Regardan en E-Coupe. The E-Coupe is the CLS.

True, although IMO the CLS is truly a "Sedan". Cute marketing by M-B, and Coupe-like proportions (which all Sedans practically have nowadays to extents anyways), but to me, a real Coupe NEEDS 2-Doors. Shape, greenhouse size, and how dramatically roof slopes into the rear windscreen have nothing to do with it. Basically, M-B's marketing department have A- Too much control, and B- Know what they're doing in pulling fast ones on the public (S63 really being a 5.5, E-Coupe really being a C, CLS really being a Sedan, lol).

they cost around the same

I don't know the MSRP difference, but out here, you can bargain a much better deal than you can on the Sedan, and get an E350 Coupe for much lower as a Used model (which says a lot about what will be of resale comparisons between the two, and the publics perception and worth of the car compared to the Sedan). Also to boot, the Sedan sells far more, so the fact that the Coupe is suffering poorer resale, just says a lot more. Maybe a lot of people don't know that it's really a "C", but it's almost subconscious (or simply pretty obvious) when you sit in, etc.

 

[Nicks]

I don't know the MSRP difference, but out here, you can bargain a much better deal than you can on the Sedan, and get an E350 Coupe for much lower as a Used model (which says a lot about what will be of resale comparisons between the two, and the publics perception and worth of the car compared to the Sedan).

well, coupe is less practical than sedan + considering average e-class buyer who prefers more conservative car

Also to boot, the Sedan sells far more, so the fact that the Coupe is suffering poorer resale, just says a lot more.

Isn't it natural? clk sales never were as high as c-class,
same story about c124, cl to s etc


Anyway, i don't think MB will change smth about it. There would be 3 sub-models - coupe based completely on c-class, cls based on e-class, and e-coupe - mutant love child of E and C. All with different price tag

 

[K-A]

Yeah, Coupes are always lower sellers for the practicality reasons. I just mean that Coupes usually have higher resale value, due to the "rarity" per-se of them, compared to the mass Sedans.

 

[SKY]

Look at BMW, with their 6er and ther 4 door Coupe, no problems here.

 

[Centurion]

True, although IMO the CLS is truly a "Sedan". Cute marketing by M-B, and Coupe-like proportions (which all Sedans practically have nowadays to extents anyways), but to me, a real Coupe NEEDS 2-Doors. Shape, greenhouse size, and how dramatically roof slopes into the rear windscreen have nothing to do with it. Basically, M-B's marketing department have A- Too much control,

Their marketing department is doing everything right. It doesn't matter whether you call it a sedan. The car is sexier than many two doors cars on the market, has a sloping rear and looks like a coupe in the eyes of thousands of people.

It's a competative industry and the best way to thrive is to invent a new niche and exploit it before competitor joins in and follow suit. Rather than taking an E-Class and chopping off two door, MB gave the exterior an exciting make over, a new name and the car is selling in volumes larger than a simple two door version of the E-Class would possibly do.

What would be truly amazing is if they brought along a cabrio version of the car.

 

[SKY]

BTW guys, what would you think if the car ends up having the kink in the rear window?.

 

[Shining Star]

BTW guys, what would you think if the car ends up having the kink in the rear window?.

This would be extremely disappointing. The last thing Mercedes needs on one of their cars is one of BMW's most famous design cues. The car might end up looking sporty and attractive, but a kink on an MB would take awhile for me to get used to it.

 

[klier]

Regardan en E-Coupe. The E-Coupe is the CLS.

Yeah right :/
CLS is a sedan dude, I'll tell you more about that concept on another day.

BTW guys, what would you think if the car ends up having the kink in the rear window?.

Well, knowing MB and their lack of a solid design stategie.......I sure can see that happening.

 

[Merc1]

It really has potential, but with any Benz before the camo starts to really come off...it makes you worry.


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[Human]

Only a C-sedan less two doors...nothing 'fresh' in the design. I just can't seem to get the point of this car

The E-coupe has good looks, charm and agressive-sportiness, why this plane Jane C-coupe?