Now that the mid-cycle refresh of the Mercedes-Benz CLS has been revealed, you would think that Photoshop artists around the world would get busy trying to create renderings of the following generation of the model.
Since facelifts usually give a glimpse of the future line of design – at least when it comes to German car manufacturers – the “future generation” renderings would totally make sense.
Not with known Photoshop artist X-Tomi though, who recently decided to transform the refreshed Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG into a two-door coupe by virtually removing the rear doors.
Of course, that wasn’t the only thing he did, as he also put more length into the driver’s door and lowered the roof line, therefore creating the imagined offspring between a CLS 63 AMG (C218) facelift and an E-Class Coupe (C207).
The result doesn’t look half bad, but a real variant of this rendering would obviously make no sense, for two particular reasons, none of them being the fact that it still has a B-pillar:
First of all, there is such a thing as the E-Class Coupe, which is the two-door coupe variant of the E-Class, while the CLS is the…four-door coupe variant of the E-Class, if you like.
And there’s the fact that a two-door CLS would fight in the same market as the S-Class Coupe, and despite their increasing number of niche models, we doubt that Mercedes-Benz would pit two nearly-identical cars to cannibalize each other’s market.
Nevertheless, the next generation of the E-Class Coupe should definitely be based on the E-Class, and not the C-Class (like the current model is), so this rendering inadvertently provides a glimpse of the proportions of the future model.
By Alex Oagana
Render via X-Tomi
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