Mercedes Forum
09-12-2008, 09:02 PM
Filed under: Convertibles (http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/), Coupes (http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/), Mercedes-Benz (http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/)
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Mercedes-Benz may decide to call a coupe a coupe starting next year. If you want a CLK after 2009, you might have to settle for an E-Class Coupe or E-Class Convertible. Want a 2-door S-Class around the same time? Then you're after the S-Class Coupe. We don't know the reason for the potential name changes, especially since the cars have such great equity -- and taking eight minutes to say E-Class Coupe Black Series doesn't have nearly the to-the-point hotness of CLK Black Series, even though it's the same number of "syllables". The CL change might make more sense as the car wasn't a huge sales success, but drop those letters in conversation and you still get a forceful point across. We can only hope that the bard was right, and that a rose by any other name...
[Source: Benz Insider (http://benzinsider.com/2008/09/mercedes-benz-dropping-the-clk-and-cl-names/)]
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Mercedes-Benz may decide to call a coupe a coupe starting next year. If you want a CLK after 2009, you might have to settle for an E-Class Coupe or E-Class Convertible. Want a 2-door S-Class around the same time? Then you're after the S-Class Coupe. We don't know the reason for the potential name changes, especially since the cars have such great equity -- and taking eight minutes to say E-Class Coupe Black Series doesn't have nearly the to-the-point hotness of CLK Black Series, even though it's the same number of "syllables". The CL change might make more sense as the car wasn't a huge sales success, but drop those letters in conversation and you still get a forceful point across. We can only hope that the bard was right, and that a rose by any other name...
[Source: Benz Insider (http://benzinsider.com/2008/09/mercedes-benz-dropping-the-clk-and-cl-names/)]
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