E-Class Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe Test Drives Thread

[VroomVroom]

I'm glad they mention the tow hook cover. Why can't mercedes integrate that into the mesh part of the bumper? And the headlamp washers do need to be less obvious.

Becausee then they wouldn't have anything to change in the face lift. Notice how Mercedes didn't have the E-class coupe the fresher cluster(same as the E-class), they give it the boring, dull layout just like the CL (which is dated) so they have something to change.

The facelift will just consist of a new grille, the fussyness of the parking sensors and tow hook cover will all be intertrated to appear more sleek.

 

[klier]

It's pretty safe to say that this car is a stunner,great job IMO

Opposite here. I think the car's a mess.

 

[SirOracle]

How come that in the AMS test of the W212 E-Class 250 CDI, the interior noise levels is lower (at some spedds by 3 dB) than in the coupe tested here? And this is a 6 cylinder gasline engine vs. 4 cyiinder diesel? Is the sedan so much better?

 

[Bartek S.]

Car Enthusiast: Merc coupÉ

Mercedes-Benz's replacement for the CLK coupé takes more than just its name from the company's most important four-door saloon. When we drove that car in March we concluded that the overwhelming list of new technology and safety systems were well, overwhelming. Cutting edge as it all is - and undoubtedly useful when you need it most - we found it quite distracting. We're hoping that the Coupé diverts our attention in other ways.

[SIZE=-1]In the Metal[/SIZE]

The most honest thing I can say about the new Coupé is that it's a very interesting design. That's not to damn it with faint praise, you understand, it's just that it can't be described as simply beautiful or ugly and it certainly is not dull. Mercedes obviously asked its designers to pen a shape that aims to be more elegant than it is sporting. Overall it's quite a striking car, though it's the detailing that makes it so interesting. From some angles the kink in the rear wing really works, lending a muscular shoulder to the two-door shape, yet from others it looks a little contrived. In contrast, the rear lights get a unanimous thumbs up. From a distance the front-end is striking and modern, but look closer and the detailing is a little fussy. It's such a pity that the parking sensors and covers in the bumper for the light washing jets and the tow hook are all so visible.

Admittedly, this is hypercritical, but one of the primary considerations when choosing a coupé is how it looks. Overall it's a distinctive, desirable car, but one that is even more colour and wheel-size sensitive than most. We'd highly recommend the optional panoramic sunroof (£1,287.02), as it further differentiates the Coupé from the saloon. The UK is getting its own model range, comprising of SE and Sport models and the latter will look particularly sporting thanks to an AMG body kit and 18-inch wheels as standard.

Inside, the new Coupé follows the lead set by its four-door brother. In general there is a sense of high quality, with superb seats and good space in the back for this type of car. The boot is huge too. A few items stood out for the wrong reasons though, such as the switches for the (admittedly fantastic) multi-adjustable lumbar support, which look decidedly aftermarket, while the plastic gearshift paddles (standard on the Sport models fitted with an automatic gearbox) just are not nice enough for a car of this calibre.

More:carenthusiast

 

[ree]

Moved the last posts with the rear window discussion to the standard Coupé thread:

http://www.germancarforum.com/e-class-coupe/28499-official-new-c207-e-class-coupe-46.html

 

[Verbier]

E-500 Coupe Video UK Road Test

A good quality video presented by the likable Chris Harris. Watch him get the tail of this puppy sliding at around the 2 min 30 second mark. nice : ) Starting to wish I ordered an E-500 now instead of an E-350 CDI... especialy after his C63 comparisons : (

Mercedes E500 Coupe First Drive

 

[Merc1]

Car and Driver - 2010 Mercedes-Benz E550 Coupe - Short Take Road Test







Seduced again by power, beauty, and comfort.


“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

We can be pretty sure John Keats wasn’t thinking about automotive sheetmetal when he penned those words in 1818. But if Keats had been scribbling just 191 years later, his inspiration could very well have been this elegant and sexy coupe.

Okay, trying to set one current Mercedes automobile above the others in terms of beauty is tough; they all look terrific. Still, this coupe version of the latest Mercedes E-class, its sweeping roofline uninterrupted by a B pillar, is on a look-at-me par with the big Mercedes CL coupes, minus their mass and massive price tags.

Do not interpret this to mean bargain. The basic E350 coupe, with a 268-hp, 3.5-liter V-6, is $48,925. That soars to $55,525 for the E550, with its 382-hp, 5.5-liter V-8. Check all the option groups, and you wind up with a package like our test car: a cool $66,375. On the other hand, the most recent previous E-class coupe—the 1994 E320—started at $62,075. Wow.

The new coupe shares architectural elements with the E-class sedan, as well as its techno-goodies and a bevy of safety features, many of them standard. But there are also pieces from the C-class stable, contributing to much tidier dimensions. For the coupe, the E sedan’s 113.1-inch wheelbase has been trimmed to 108.7. That two-door is 6.7 inches shorter and 2.7 inches narrower than the four-door, and its 54.0-inch roof is 3.2 inches lower.

Aside from the achievement of a pillarless design in an age of ever tougher rollover standards, Mercedes has done a fine packaging job: The reduced dimensions have deleted nearly a third of the rear-seat space but haven’t made the E coupe a mere two-plus-two. Rear headroom will be on the wish lists of individuals over six feet tall, but there’s plenty of knee, leg, and toe room for two modestly sized adults. The seats are supportive, and climbing in or out is eased by the power front seats, which flip and glide forward.

Reduced dimensions should equate with reduced weight, and that seems to be true here. Our loaded test car weighed 3942 pounds, far from light, but still a couple hundred pounds better than what we anticipate for the sedan.

In any case, the coupe’s 5.5-liter V-8—one of the best naturally aspirated eights in the business—and seven-speed automatic transmission handle all those pounds very well indeed: zero to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds, the quarter-mile in 13.3 at 108 mph. It emits a refined V-8 rumble when it’s pinning occupants into their seatbacks and is an eager ally when it’s time to pick off back-road dawdlers.

We wish the coupe’s other dynamic elements were as compelling. The steering, though quick at 2.7 turns lock to lock, is thin on feedback. The suspension—featuring Mercedes’ electronically controlled adaptive shock absorbers—is a little too compliant for really headlong apex clipping, even in sport mode. We reserve judgment regarding braking performance; our test car, fresh from abuse at a press preview, had problems that stretched stopping distances far beyond expectations—Mercedes’ and ours. And the responses of the paddle-shifting feature are relaxed by serious sports-coupe standards. This is no BMW M3. If real haste is an objective, a new E63 AMG version is just around the corner. But alas, Mercedes says the AMG massage will be limited to the sedan.

On the other hand, we’d be surprised if anyone acquired this car with track days in mind. Like us, people are more likely to be seduced by its blend of power, comfort, and beauty that will never grow old.


Highs: Sublime hardtop styling, ample power, handsome interior, room for four.

Lows: Steering could be more decisive, ditto dynamic responses.


2010 Mercedes-Benz E550 Coupe - Short Take Road Test/The Coupe Coop/Car Shopping/Hot Lists/Reviews/Car and Driver - Car And Driver


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[cawimmer430]

This interior color combination looks great.

 

[Verbier]

One Week Old E-Coupe 350 CDI

Well the car is now one week old and has covered a grand total of 1000km. Familiarity is now allowing me to start hustling the car more than in the first few days. It realy can be hustled at some pace along the mountain alpine roads where I live. The full performance of the engine has yet to be revealed as there is still at least another 500km to go before I exit the official running in phase so accelertaion during kickdown is still an unknown quantity.

The only other problem I have found which wasn't included in my earlier post related to the iPod MuliMedia Interface. For some reason searchin based on Artist does not work and when searching based on Albums for some reason Podcasts get mixed in, confusing the search process.

I'll be complaining to MB about this as this option was far from cheap so at the very least I would expect it to work as advertised. I'm sure it would not be to hard for MB to provide a firmware fix for this.

Also, when importing contacts from my iPhone to the cars internal directory the contacts can only be stored with Last Name first which is opposite to how I store them in my iPhone contacts list. Not a major problem but annoying all the same.

Below are the fist outside photo's of the car taken since I took posession last week.

 

[alejandro]

What about multicontourn seats? Do you think it's worth it?

 

[Verbier]

What about multicontourn seats? Do you think it's worth it?

Good question. My car came with these seats as part of the AMG package. They are very comfortable and extremely adjustable. They are particularly impressive in the amount of lateral support they give when driving on twisting roads and much better than the Sport seats in my old Audi. I would prefer if the seats would move lower but I think this is more down to the mounting than the type of seat.

I never test drove an E-Coupe with the standard seats so I can't realy compare the two and say if the Multicontour are worth the extra money or not.

 

[ree]

In the late 1980s and early '90s, when Mercedes-Benz was indisputably engineering-led rather than marketing-driven, the iconic W124 series E-Class sedan defined the company: solid, sober, quietly respectable, reassuringly expensive, discreetly oozing middle-class aspiration from every panel. The W124 E-Class coupe combined that middle-class aspiration with a frisson of extravagance, like a Franck Muller watch peeking from under the cuff of a Brooks Brothers shirt.

After a 13-year hiatus, the E-Class coupe is back, joining an all-new E-Class sedan that in many ways represents a welcome return to the W124's core values. But things aren't quite what they seem to be.

The W124 E-Class coupe was basically a short-wheelbase, two-door version of the W124 sedan. It shared powertrains, suspension, major interior parts, and most key platform hardpoints and dimensions with the four-door. The coupe disappeared from the E-Class lineup with the W210 E-Class in 1996. Instead, Mercedes-Benz launched the CLK, a swoopy two-door that aped some of the W210's design features, most notably the distinctive quad-oval headlight front graphic, but was built on the smaller, less expensive C-Class platform. Crucially, the CLK was priced under the E-Class sedan, instead of above it, as the W124 E-Class coupe had been.

The new E-Class coupe appears to follow the W124 formula. It looks like a short-wheelbase, two-door version of the 2010 sedan (the W212 in Mercedes-speak). But both 2010 E-Class coupes (the V-8-powered E550C and the V-6-powered E350C) are priced below their similarly powered E-Class sedan cousins. And under that elaborately creased sheetmetal is a significantly different car.

The new E-Class coupe shares its 108.7-inch wheelbase with the current C-Class sedan. More important, the two cars' front and rear tracks are within a tenth of an inch of each other, and are about two inches narrower than the front and rear tracks of the W212 E-Class sedan. While the new E-Class sedan is built in M-B's Sindelfingen plant, the E-Class coupe is built in the Bremen plant -- along with the current C-Class. The logical conclusion? The new E-Class Coupe is basically built on the C-Class platform. It is a new CLK coupe by any other badge.……

2010 Mercedes-Benz E550C First Test - Mercedes E-Class Coupe Test and Review - Motor Trend

 

[Shining Star]

Wow...they said that it was harsh, and not fun to drive...many publications have said that it wasn't as good as the sedan.

 

[Merc1]

The MT review almost makes you think something was wrong with their particular test car.

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[bum-man]

Probably nothing wrong with the car at all. Could just be a fresh off the line press vehicle with crapola all seasons.

 

[Merc1]

In the above Car and Driver review they stated that they held off on some tests because the car was a beat up press example so that could be.


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[Shining Star]

Car and Driver gave a better review than MT...weird...ususally MT is the one giving the good review and CD is the one giving the bad...

 

[Guibo]

Evo drives 250 CDi: "Less is more"

Four-cylinder diesel powered model is the pick of Merc's new coupe range

By John Simister
July 2009

"Lined up next to the saloons at the Geneva motor show were the E-class Coupés. The truth is that there’s more driving satisfaction to be had at the opposite end of the range. Move down past the petrol and diesel V6s and you’ll encounter the four-pot 250s, neither of which have 2.5-litre engines because the Mercedes naming system is now in ruins. The petrol offering, the E250 CGI, has 1.8 litres, a turbo, direct injection and 201bhp, and as this is a ‘BlueEfficiency’ engine it’s super-frugal too. It’s also torquey and good fun with the manual gearbox.

But it’s the E250 CDI (2.1 litres, turbodiesel, also 201 blue-hued bhp) that makes the most sense on every level. Its torque is considerable, its CO2 minimal (135g/km), its automatic gearbox’s ability always to be in the right gear for maximum thrust admirable. No matter that it lacked paddle-shifters in the SE trim of the car we tried; just leave the seven-speed ’box to itself and relish a front end much lighter-footed and keener to dive into a turn than even the sportified E500’s. It rides better on smaller wheels and gentler suspension; its steering has great progression and precision. It’s like a more-honed BMW 320d."

Rating:

Mercedes E-Class Coupe 250 CDi | Car Review | evo

 

[Verbier]

The 250 CDI has a 5 speed Auto and NOT a 7 speed Auto. I really wish these guys would get their facts right. So unprofessional : (

 

[ree]

Mercedes E500 Coupé (2009) CAR review

It’s a two-door E-class – or is it? It’s a 5.0-litre – or is it? Well, E500’s a bit of a misnomer, because this is actually a 5.5-litre V8, and the underpinnings come from the C-class. Should make for an agile, powerful mile-eater then. Let’s see how the new E-class Coupé stacks up on the road.
Er, 382bhp and the Mercedes E500 Coupé only has four stars for performance?

Factor a couple of other figures too: 0-62mph in 5.4sec, and a top speed limited to 155mph. Pretty impressive, though probably no more so than you’d expect. And there’s no doubt that the E500 is an enormously fast car, capable of swallowing massive distances and digesting them in an instant.

But it’s not a five-star performer because it doesn’t quite provide the sense of occasion you might have expected, and much of that is down to tardy step-off. Blame the stodgy long-travel throttle or the reluctant auto 'box, but even in Sport mode (press the little button on the dash and you’ll feel dampers and throttle tauten) that initial moment when you hit the gas, that first burst that really ought to make you swear out loud, it just doesn’t.
Sounds like a disappointment already...

Don’t worry, it’s not. But if you’re expecting an M3 rival, look elsewhere. Sure, this thing is doorstepping £50k, and it’s only 5in longer than the BMW but, remember, Merc plays that game with C63 AMG. Here you’ve got a suave, amply powerful coupé that’s aimed more at cruisers and autobahn-stormers than tail-happy B-road freaks.

Get that in your head, get used to the, er, more refined nature of the Merc’s standing start and you’ll begin to revel in its sheer effortlessness. That long-travel throttle comes into its own when you’re up to speed, allowing you to modulate your attack on the horizon with millimetric precision. And with the torque convertor all wound up, sudden bursts of acceleration will result in profanity. Because then the E500 starts to live up to its name, however disingenuous that might be.

It’s all accompanied by a fabulously opulent V8 growl that grows to thunderous proportions as you round the clock. But back off and it’s as refined as a limo.
Does the new E-class Coupé handle?

Not surprisingly, it handles like a big V8 Merc. Much of that statement is good. Other stuff first. The steering is way too light to be proper fun. It’s quick and decently accurate but completely mute, the kind of steering that goes with cruising one-handed while ruffling your mullet with the other. And fans of massive, smoky tail-slides better stick to that M3 or C63 (see our video test of hotrod performance saloons here).

Good stuff: this car is massively stable and confident, yet it feels pretty compact – more C- than E-size, appropriately.


Wind it up on a B-road and it’ll be crinkling a smile from your chops at every corner, thanks to keen turn-in, great poise, massive grip and (just) enough understeer to keep you comfortably short of white knuckles. It’s got the cruising speed thing all stitched up too, doing motorways virtually in silence, plotting a true course in crosswinds and remaining thoroughly calm across corrugated surfaces. And it rides well too, firm for sure, but deftly controlled and never harsh.……

Mercedes E500 Coupé (2009) CAR review | Road Testing Reviews | Car Magazine Online