Hot! Mercedes-Benz, What's Next?

[HUTSUTAo]

And here I thought the 2016/2017 model switch over in the U.S. was a busy time, for the 2017/2018 season will see another glut of new MB products. The E Coupe, E Cabrio, S Facelift, E Wagon, AMG E Wagon, GLC63, GLC63 Coupe, and the E63 sedan.

M

Most 2017/2018 model switch over are not really the volume seller. The real deal should be the 2018/2019 GLE. The GLE sells in bigger volume than the E Class nowadays in US

 

[Merc1]

Most 2017/2018 model switch over are not really the volume seller. The real deal should be the 2018/2019 GLE. The GLE sells in bigger volume than the E Class nowadays in US

Oh I know I was speaking in terms of just new product and the introductions that will take place. When is the new GLE due?

M

 

[HUTSUTAo]

Oh I know I was speaking in terms of just new product and the introductions that will take place. When is the new GLE due?

M

I guess some time next year?

 

[Amat46]

 

[WAND]

Bye bye Panamera...

 

[nikola1984]

Bye bye Panamera...

 

[SCOTT27]

Seems to be 5dr.

 

[SKY]

At least they have updated the GT design. The GT will be almost 4 year old when this comes to the market, so changes are needed IMO.

I hope the interior is also different.

 

[75KoDe]

 

[Star&Car]

Not feeling it,I pray for the production version.

 

[75KoDe]

In the second picture that I posted it looks like a Tesla Model S.
I agree, I'm not convinced either.

 

[Amat46]

Official Thread - Mercedes-AMG GT Concept

Mercedes-AMG GT Concept

www.germancarforum.com

 

[Adr5]

SUV madness means Mercedes could sell fewer coupes in the future
With two-door cars losing ground in the U.S. and China, the business case for coupes is getting tougher.
Both coupe and cabriolet versions of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class range are on display at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. But one day in the future, Mercedes might not be so inclined to sell two-door “specialty” models. The problem? Customers shift inexorably toward buying SUVs, says Daimler AG chairman of the board and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars Dr Dieter Zetsche.

“These specialty cars, the coupes or convertibles, always were niche cars,” he told a group of American reporters in Geneva. In the future, “we will have coupes but perhaps less.”

The problem is that Mercedes doesn’t plan its business models only for one sales region but globally. As fewer customers worldwide bought traditional cars and switched to SUVs, Zetsche said the company made up lots of volume thanks to growth in China. But the Chinese market pretty much only takes sedans, which doesn’t help with a global business case for two-door cars.

They have very few coupe and convertible sales in China, which makes the business case for these vehicles [harder],” he says. “It’s more difficult to run a business case when they are limited to one region.
Still, don’t expect Mercedes to completely abandon sales of coupes and convertibles. They’re still great brand-builders, Zetsche says. But we won’t see as many of them if buyers continue to eschew two-door models in favor of SUVs.
We might in the next go-around certainly continue to think about coupes and convertibles just because they are … just beautiful cars, but perhaps not with the variety that we have now,” he says.

Source: Motor1

 

[W201]

So, they will ditch either C Coupe or E Coupe (I'm betting on the latter).

Perhaps it is time that SLC becomes a legacy model, and leaves that space for further AMG portfolio expansion (i.e. AMG's 718 competitor).

 

[Busty]

^As I wrote in here almost 2 years ago (and got grilled for): the first coupe that will not have a successor will probably be the S coupe. I don't know whether things have changed since then but it was pretty solid info back when I got the info.

 

[Amat46]

^ I have heard that from an another source as well. Instead there will be a 4 door coupe.

 

[Monster]

^ I have heard that from an another source as well. Instead there will be a 4 door coupe.

So MB will have the AMG 4 door coupe along side this rumored S class 4 door coupe and the CLS?

 

[W201]

^As I wrote in here almost 2 years ago (and got grilled for): the first coupe that will not have a successor will probably be the S coupe. I don't know whether things have changed since then but it was pretty solid info back when I got the info.

It's not my intention to grill you or anything like that, but I don't understand why would they stop making the S Coupe, when it sells well, and is the perfect 'halo' coupe for the Benz (and gives them Cabrio model as well).

Especially now that we know there will be CLS and AMG's Panamera competitor?

 

[Amat46]

So MB will have the AMG 4 door coupe along side this rumored S class 4 door coupe and the CLS?

Time will tell. Its all a bit vague at the moment.

 

[tennmb]

This is what the next CLS should have looked like. I don't get Mercedes' commitment to a trunk instead of hatch. The hatch gives you a lot more flexibility to design a fluid coupe like rear end.