mick1

2007 MB CLK from http://www.autobild.de

the headlights look kinda odd but maybe i will get used to the look after a while

BrabusClK04

Wow CLS head lights, looks pretty nicewith fender flares, but i dont think ill keep my car long enough till 2007. If they make a CLK65, ill consider it...

calboy

I like it but 2007 seems very far off.

mick1

that's only 2 years from now i figure you can buy a 2007 model car in 2006, like right now is 2004 but you already can buy a 2005 car.

BrabusClK04

I dont think MB is planning to change or restyle the CLK anytime soon, it just came out in 2003. give it another 4-5 years. I would say they will introduce the new style in late 2007 as a 2008 year car.

H-MAN

It looks pretty good, more muscle with the wider fenders. If this is a 2007 it would probably be a refresh of the W209, not an all new car.

Guest0001

I dont think this will happen before 2009.

RJC

The W208 CLK was in production from MY's 98-2002 so the W209 could very well be from MY 03-07.

The car pictured could be the E class 2dr coupe that's been rumored to join the E class 4 door CLS as they share similar styled headlights.

calboy

i don't think it could be the e-class coupe, the length and proportions look too much like the clk class. Besides there is no point in an e-class coupe with the cl and cls already

RohithT

I think automobile mag said that they're going to make a 4-door coupe based on the next C-Class (which is supposed to be due in '07) called the CLE, ostensibly not the future CLK replacement. Who knows if that's true, but if it is and they are bringing out a proper E-based coupe (as nice as the CLS may be, it's no coupe), I guess MB is going for complete niche-ification (I know, that's not a real word).
This idea of having something different for each particular taste has been predicted for quite some time; maybe MB has decided to see if it really makes for a compelling business plan.

begone

Looks great! But probably as most have said, it'll be coming late 2007 or 2008. Man with that and the New M coming out, the choices will be tough.

RJC

There are rumored plans to build an E class based coupe that I've read about in some of the US car mags.

See the list below from the link and note the "CLE Coupe" due in 2007. The CLS in my opinion is a 4 door car and not a coupe (coupes do not have 4 doors) no matter how its marketed.

Can someone that is fluent in German read and give us the pertinant facts from the link please?

Thanks

Um den Niedergang der traditionellen Karosserievarianten zu kompensieren, will Mercedes-Benz beim Nachfolger der C-Klasse (Baureihe 204, Start Sommer 2006) noch stärker in die Breite gehen als bisher. Folgende Alternativen stehen zur Diskussion – darunter nicht weniger als drei verschiedene Coupés: • Limousine, 2006 • T-Modell, 2006 • Sportcoupé, 2007 • Sportcabriolet, 2007 • CLK Coupé, 2007 • CLK Cabriolet, 2008 • CLE Coupé, 4türig, 2007 • CLT Sportkombi, 2- oder 4türig, 2008 • CLX Crossover, 4türig, 2007.

Michael T

Autospies says this is the new CL for what it is worth.

calboy

Well the autobild article that showed this picture said this is the new clk. i read through the whole article using babelfish. They had several shots in the gallery and it looks like the current clk proportion wise. They also taked about the new cl and other coupe introductions and showed pictures of the new cl which looks nothing like this although not very attractive in my opinion. Too bad I can't find the original article because the link is gone but there was a gallery with about thitry forty pics of the new c, clk, cls, cl, s, e, m, and slk. I am convinced from the pictures this is the new clk and not the cl or cle or cls.

kaiser

here you go:

http://www.autobild.de/aktuell/neuhe...rtikel_id=7424


for the gallery:

http://www.autobild.de/projektor/pro..._id=7424&pos=1

cheers

2007 looks great!!

RohithT

I'm not a fan of any of those renders. Their CLE looks like they took a CLS and just photoshopped out the rear handles, their G-Wagen look like a Toyota Highlander, and it seems to my untrained eye that their M-Class renders don't have the rear shape that their spyshots show.
But they're just renders and not real metal, glass and plastic yet, so I'll reserve judgment until we have more real images (like those of the B-Class; it's rather tiny, isn't it? It's only 168" long! That's 3" shorter than the C-Class coupe.).

JLee81

OK here is my input. I thought that W208s are good looking even though they are quite old now and So as W209. But this one.. is just so ugly. Not even funny. If MB decides this as next CLK. I will be very disappointed.

Ben'sCLK

Actually, not to be pedantic, but the term "coupe" is a french word which literally means "chopped" and in the current Oxford dictionary the meaning is "enclosed motor car with sloping back".

It doesn't have any significance whether it has 2 or 4 doors but seems to mean that the rear "C" pillars are lowered. The CLS isn't the first of its type as back in the late 60's Rover made a car, the P5b, which was available as saloon 4dr or Coupe again with 4 doors but a lower roofline !

Having looked all thos photo's I believe the CLE wont happen. Its a photoshop'd CLS. The new CL cabrio wont happen either and the car they claim is the new "C" Class is probably actually the new "S"-Class judging by its proportions

I think the car shown here IS the 2006 CLK which will still be W209 based and not totally new !

c2jones

As previously stated, AutoSpies said that this car (pictured) was in fact a "photoshop" of the CL, not CLK. (See link below). However, in a separate page, they indicate that "Future MB's to resemble CLS" as a styling trend, and in fact show a version of what the CL is likely to look like.

I think that perhaps there was a mistake with the listing.

The two photos are different.

The former looks closer to a CLK, while the latter looks far more like a CL.

http://www.autospies.com/article/ind...articleId=3660

http://www.autospies.com/article/ind...articleId=3650

manyoohoo

That thing looks hoT! Wonder how much it'll cost..

-manyoohoo