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09-12-2008, 01:30 PM
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Mercedes CL and CLK names say "Auf wiedesehen..."
Filed under: Convertibles, Coupes, Mercedes-Benz
 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] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More...  09-12-2008 02:29 PM 
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#2
09-13-2008, 07:35 PM
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Whats weird is that a CLK is a C series coupe not a E series coupe.
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09-15-2008, 09:52 AM
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I love the CLs. So, it's only the name that's changing?
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09-15-2008, 03:54 PM
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I don't get it, didn't the CL badge originally come about because with W140s people were getting confused between S500 Sedans and S500 Coupes? I say bring back the SEL/SEC nomenclature.
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09-16-2008, 08:47 AM
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Change for the sake of change . . . .
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