First we had the sedan that was a coupe. Then it was so successful (170,000 customers can still be wrong, but it’s enough for good business) that it warranted a second generation. Now we will have a wagon based on a coupe based on a sedan. We’re talking of the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake (the luxury name for station wagon), which was just confirmed for launch in 2012.
The whole concept sounds bizarre, just as the CLS did when it first launched, but it looks quite good, at least in these photos. The Shooting Brake has the same look of the CLS: long-hood, frameless side windows and banana-like roofline. Then comes the additional metal and glass to make it into a wagon. This is what the R-Class should have looked like. The CLS Shooting Brake was first shown at Auto China in April 2010.
Production will be in Daimler’s Sindelfingen plant, Mercedes’ largest, alongside the C, E, S, CLS, CL, SLS-Class, and the Maybach models. Sindelfingen also produces the B-Class fuel cell cars.
Daimler boss Dr. Dieter Zetsche says the CLS Shooting Brake “underscores the leading role of Mercedes-Benz in regards of innovative passenger car concepts and design – and that is exactly what the customers expect from us.”
What’s your bet that the production car will be launched in China as well?
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