By Ollie Kew
First Official Pictures
29 June 2012 20:00
This is the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake. It's the creation edition of the Shooting Break Concept prototypal shown at the 2012 Peiping machine show.
An realty edition of the CLS four-door coupe, Merc is hoping to move the gimmick it pulled soured when it ingrained the 'coupaloon' mart with the example CLS in 2004.
An estate, coupe, or sports taphouse - what is the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake?For a start, it's grounds that our agglomerated obligation for motoring trait via ever-more tall niches knows no bounds, because what we essentially wager here is a applicatory realty bodystyle, deliberately compromised by modify over function.
Mercedes themselves intend to the CLS Shooting Brake as a 'sports automobile coupe with fivesome doors and a roof that extends every the artefact to the rear'.
Clearly, the swoopy Shooting Brake is never feat to contest its E-class brother's large alluviation bay, but then again, it isn't questionable to - this is a farther more dapper proposal than the E kinsfolk wagon. However, the Shooting Brake does ease control a praiseworthy 590 litres of alluviation space, which expands to 1550 litres with the side artefact bifold down. That side governance today sports threesome seats, in oppositeness to the connatural CLS, ordered up as a demanding two-seater in the posterior quarters.
Your load module be travelling as stylishly as your passengers, too, thanks to an nonmandatory redness tree vegetation rush floor, supplemented with alu-rubber rails to kibosh the Waitrose groceries sliding around in transit. What the kinsfolk canid module attain of existence transported in a ballroom-on-wheels we're not sure, but again, perhaps the Shooting Brake didn't hit labrador-friendliness broad on its organisation agenda.
The cabin itself relic as-you-were CLS, though newborn finishes of vegetation cut and leather are offered via Mercedes discrimination programme.
What powers the CLS Shooting Brake?Two diesel engines module be offered from start in the UK. At the lower-powered modify of the arrange we encounter the four-cylinder 250 CDI BlueEfficiency, beatific for 201bhp, 369lb ft, 53.3mpg and 139g/km of CO2. Performance is competent for a fair coupe wagon-thing: 0-62mph takes 7.8sec and it'll crowning discover at a good UK-irrelevant 146mph.
The another powerplant is the 350 CDI V6 turbodiesel, develping 261bhp and 457lb ft from meet 1600rpm. The player oblige of the V6 automobile takes the 0-62mph running downbound to a blistering hatch-bothering 6.6sec, and crowning pace has to be checked at the old 155mph limiter. Economy suffers slightly for the player poke: the 350 scores 47mpg and 159g/km.
As you'd expect, there's no drill casing option: movement is condemned tending of by Mercs' seven-speed 7G Tronic machine transmission with stop-start as standard.
If you poverty a petrol-powered Shooting Brake, you'll hit to move for the full-fat AMG version, fair the 5.5-litre twin-turbo V8. Expect action to be rattling kindred to that of the connatural CLS63 AMG: that'll be 518bhp/516lb ft, 4.4sec to 62mph and 155mph, then.
Anything added of welfare on the CLS Shooting Brake?The underway CLS was the world's prototypal automobile to substance what Mercedes calls 'High Performance diode headlights', with greater reddened execute than bi-xenons, but modify forcefulness consumption. Lo and behold, the CLS Shooting Brake is the second-ever automobile to feature the technology, but the car's gadget talents aren't restricted to snazzy headlamps.
There's an auto-close gate as standard, and self-levelling expose hold at the side to hold onerous loads in the Shooting Brake's load space. In an try to assuage the pronounce caused by compromised side saliency from the svelte shape, the Shooting Brake module modify manoeuvre an pertinent parking expanse for itself - and then go correct aweigh and self-park.
Aluminium features extensively in the car's construction, as Mercedes continues its dedication to turn the massiveness of its range. The Shooting Brake's tailgate, bonnet, face wings, are every aluminium, as are whatever hold and engine components. The pillarless doors are said to apiece be 24kg lighter than customary poise doors.
When crapper I acquire a CLS Shooting Brake?Following its concern entry at Mercedes-Benz World in the UK, Shooting Brakes module attain their artefact to panopticon floors in for Nov 2012.
Mercedes module foretell flooded description and pricing info closer that time, but presented that a CLS commands around a £13k payment over a connatural E-class saloon, don't move to be production up modify a leanly-specced Shotting Brake with such modify from £48,000.
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