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2009 Volkswagen CC: First Drive
The car industry and the publications that serve it like order. They like to place things into categories and through doing so, exert some illusion of control over the marketplace. The BMW 3-series competes with the Audi A4. The Honda Accord competes with the Toyota Camry. Vehicles are priced to be a few dollars higher or lower than the competition and offer a few percentage points more of some variable or a few less. All this makes for easy Powerpoint presentations, unchallenged marketing departments and easily defined cars; we all know that an Accord is like a Camry, but with a nicer interior and a better driving experience. It’s a nice, comfy way to do business. Then a car like the 2009 Volkswagen CC comes along, refuses to play by the rules and screws everything up. How? By offering more than a Mercedes CLS for less than half the price.
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3:00 PM on Tue Oct 21 2008
By Wes Siler
11,633 views, 101 commentsMost discussed layabout: The interior looks gash & i cant see it disturbing too many sales of other cars in the same price more »
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geneva motor show
2009 Mercedes-Benz CLS With New Photos
For 2009, Mercedes will be freshening the CLSsedan"coupe". Honestly, we still really can't tell the difference in the changes. The one change that's hard to miss is the addition of a new entry-level model, the CLS 280. But don't be misled by the numbers on the badge; the V6 will actually be a 3.0-liter unit. Peak output is 231 HP, which will bring the CLS to 100km/h (62mph) in 7.7 seconds. We're not sure if those are decent numbers or not, mainly because we're not exactly sure what the CLS 280 is supposed to be compared to. Perhaps Mercedes is reaching down to fight over customers with Volkswagen's upward-reaching Passat CC? Press release after the jump.
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Where Did Acura's Dynamic Power Plenum Grille Come From?
When we saw the 2009 Acura RL and it's less than spectacular "Dynamic Power Plenum" grille at this past Chicago Auto Show, not only did we think it was a photoshopping joke (we swear we saw pixels), we wondered where the hell it had come from. It's been a while since Acura dropped a styling stinker in our laps — although Wert says he likes the look of it on something a bit smaller — this mid-cycle refresh can generally be called befitting of that description. Since nutty styling elements usually come from somewhere, we dug into the archives and came up with a pretty good candidate. More » -
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Mercedes CLS Gets A Little Off The Chin, New Entry-Level Package
Two weeks after pictures of the new Mercedes CLS AMG mysteriously leaked onto the internet, Mercedes-Benz has released full photos and details on the refreshed CLS. On the top end there's the newly reconfigured CLS 63 AMG with comes with the AMG-tuned 6.2-litre V8, good for 514 horsepower. The AMG also gets new 19-inch light-alloys and a new sports exhaust system. On the bottom end there's a new CLS 280, which is propelled by a V6 that makes less than half the horsepower of the AMG model. The base price for the "entry-level" CLS is $83,000 in the domestic market, with the AMG model going for just around $157,000. Press release below the jump.
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Mercedes CLS AMG 63 Images Leak on to Internet
Although we'd already heard the new Mercedes CLS AMG wouldn't be getting a power boost beyond 514 HP under the hood, now we're not only hearing what it'll officially look like, we're seeing it. Here's the first shots of the new four-door "coupe" from Daimler — helpfully making the rounds on the internet well before the official reveal date of sometime in the indeterminately near future. Noted differences between the old n' busted model and the new hotness pictured above and below the jump are the bigger 19" wheels, new front grille, rear LED lighting and an odd little carbon fiber mini-spoiler. One more pic below the jump. More » -
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Tuner Mercedes 350 CLS: The ART GTR 374
The tuning floor at the Frankfurt auto show will be packed to the rafters with tweakage this year. There, among the Brabus and AC Schnitzers, will be upstarts like Nuremberg's ART, a firm not known for restraint. But with its latest tuning job, performed on the Mercedes 350 CLS — the GTR 374 — the company's putting on a more serious face. A DTM-style body kit over redline rims and black racing stripes gives it a more earthbound look than some of the company's other creations. Under the hood, a supercharger system increases horsepower to 374 and torque to 376 lb-ft. Inside, it's a festival of ultra-suede, naturally. We'll get a reading from the Messe floor, next month. [via World Car Fans]
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spy photos
Spy Photos: Mercedes CLS
The site that's all about the car scene in the Deutschland just posted a couple of pics of what they're claiming is the new Mercedes CLS. The pictures, taken this week in Bodo, Norway, seem to indicate the heavyweight four-door is in for a mild-mannered facelift with this mid-cycle refresh. Really, that's all we got here...unless anyone has any good Norwegian jokes. More »
9:33 PM on Wed Mar 21 2007
By Ray Wert
1,842 views, 4 commentsLatest by FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system: bork, bork bork! more »
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custom cars
Can't Front on the Redlines: The ART GTR 374
The tuning gang at Germany's ART appear ready to redeem themselves from sins of flamboyance against Mercedes. The GTR 374 is a far more down-to-business, muscle-car-inspired CLS kit than the company's other baller-docious designs. Supporting a more elegant, though no less testosterone-warped, styling program, the GTR 374 features a supercharger-intercooler system with heat exchanger, tweaked computer (with top-speed delimiter) and stainless-steel sport exhaust, all producing 368 hp and 376 lb-ft of torque — atop a lowered suspension. It's no monster of rock, but at least it won't make the neighbors' kids hide under the bed. More » -
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Nissan Skyline, Mercedes CLS: Separated At Birth?
The folks over at Nihon Car & Bike swear they see some precision there in the new Nissan Skyline. We're not entirely convinced yet, but take a look at our Skyline gallery and our Mercedes CLS gallery below and take a look for yourself. Then, you know, let's discuss. More » -
custom cars/hot rods: tuners
Das Rokit: Brabus Super CLS Breaks Speed Record
The Brabus rocketeers say they've broken the speed record for street-legal sedans, having been certified by Germany's technical standards agency, T V, for hitting over 227 mph on the Nardo test track in southern Italy. The ber tuner's ber sedan, the Rocket — based on a Mercedes-Benz CLS — is powered by a bored-out and twin turbo'd V12 displacing 6.3 liters and producing 730 hp and an electronically limited 811 lb-ft of torque (it also meets EURO IV emissions). We'd imagine the record will spark an arms race among German tuning shops who'd rather not let the maniacal laughter from the Bottrop boys go unchallenged. More »
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