Tag: Spy shots

Like lingerie falling to the floor of a cheap motel room in Atlanta on a humid evening, the W205 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG wagon continues to strip for us with heightened motivation.

We’ve been very bad here at MBWorld. While Mercedes-Benz was undressing its facelifted B-Class, we were watching. In our defense, we did it for you.

Just recently the new facelifted 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS has been spotted outside of MB headquarters in Stuttgart donning very little camo, indeed.

Mercedes has found a gap to fill between the 333-horsepower C400 and the 450+/- horsepower C63. The undisguised C450 Sport AMG we spotted, and its 367-horsepower twin-turbo 3.0L V6 should fit within the wheel wells nicely.

That didn’t take long. It was only April when we spotted a development mule version of the Mercedes-Benz MLC/ML Coupe. The crew at AMG quickly got its wrench-turning hands on it and created what you see in the spy shots: the MLC63/ML63 AMG Coupe.

Now that Mercedes-Benz’s entry-level positions for various markets are established by the A-Class, B-Class, or, as in the U.S., by the CLA four-door coupe, the new C-Class chassis (W205) will be positioned as a more premium family of cars including a cabriolet model.

The automotive industry is moving toward electrification like Walmart shoppers moving through the doors at 5 a.m. on Black Friday. Thanks to tightening EPA regulations, there’s a lot of pressure to get more plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles on the roads, but only so much can be done given the constraints of the time-space continuum. The W205 C-Class is not immune to this impending wave of electrification, as demonstrated by these spy shots of C-Class sedan and wagon plug-in prototypes.