Something has really bugged me since Mercedes introduced its new C-Class. And that's that it was alone for a while. The C-Class Coupé remained unchanged for months, until now that is. Mercedes has opened the lid on the new Coupé for the lineup and it looks better than ever.
It's 95 mm longer and 40 mm wider than the previous generation. Throw that and its smooth yet muscular flowing lines into the equation and you have a coupé that stands out from the crowd. It also shouts out to its older brother, the new S-Class Coupé, with which it shares many of its design features.
As with other cars in the range, Mercedes will be offering the C-Class Coupé with AROMATIC air suspension as an optional extra, although DYNAMIC SELECT comes as standard where the driver can choose between ECO, Comfort, Sport, Sport+ and Individual.
No less than 6 engines will be on offer - the 1.6-litre 156 bhp C180 kicks off the collection, followed by three 2.0-litre units, the C200 (184 bhp), C250 (211 bhp) and C300 (245 bhp). If you're more of a diesel person, you have 2 options yet to be named, but producing 170 and 204 bhp. As opposed to being the Cxxx CDI, they will be called Cxxxd thanks to Mercedes' updated nomenclature (full explanation here).
Safety tech comes in the form of ATTENTION ASSIST, COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS, DISTRIONIC PLUS with Steering Assist and Stop&Go Pilot, BAS PLUS Brake Assist System, Enhanced Active Lane Keeping Assist and PRE-SAFE® PLUS. An Active Parking Assist is also available as well as a 360-degree camera, camera and navigation-based Traffic Sign Assist and Adaptive Highbeam Assist Plus. All of which are designed with safety in mind, but most of which being paid extras!
'When is it out?', I hear you ask... December this year. Pricing and further tech specs are to be expected nearer that date, but I can't stop thinking 'why?'. Why so late? Why would the German premium brand have 2 generations of C-Class on the go at once? I think this should've been done altogether as a family, not one-by-one, but I'm sure there must be method behind the madness...
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