Mercedes-Benz has been running camo’d E-Class Coupe (and Convertible) prototypes around for many months now, but this time, our spies nabbed a shot of its interior.
Blink and you’ll miss the small changes made over the new E-Class Sedan’s dashboard, but they’re there and they include the funkier turbine-style nozzles on the air vents and the modified lower center console that sits higher and does away with the saloon’s analogue clock for a cleaner and more compact look.
This particular tester sported the base version of Merc’s instrument cluster with two round analogue dials separated by an LCD screen, but the more futuristic fully-digital console will be available on higher-end models.
You can’t see it in these images, but another, more substantial difference for both the Coupe and the Convertible will be their four-passenger layout with individual rear seats.
With Mercedes having removed most of the heavy body cladding on the outside, and despite the swirly camo, we can interpret the elegant yet sporty exterior lines of the new 2017 E-Class Coupe. While it seems to have a more powerful presence than the chunkier and smaller C-Class Coupe, the E-Class Coupe suffers from the ‘Matryoshka doll’ syndrome that prevails the German luxury car industry these days.
Under the sheetmetal, the Coupe sits on the same MRA platform as the E-Class sedan and which also underpins the C-Class and S-Class. It will borrow the saloon’s powerplants from further up the scale, including a base 241hp 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and turbocharged V6s culminating with the E43 AMG’s 396 HP (401 PS). Europe will get a choice of diesels too.
A fully-fledged E63 AMG performance model with a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 delivering 571PS (563hp) and 750Nm (553 lb-ft) in base trim, and 612PS (604hp) and 850Nm (627 lb-ft) in ‘S’ guise, will round out the range later down the road.
Prices should hover around the same levels as those of the current car when it goes on sale in early 2017.
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