The n2012 Mercedes S Class will lose its top
The 2012 Mercedes S Class will also be built as a two door convertible (an S Class Coupe Convertible) to take on the Bentley Continental GTC.
It’s probably a sign of increasing decrepitude as it seems only five minutes since Mercedes launched the current S Class, but already we’re talking about the 2012 Mercedes S Class – and it’s only a year away.
As has always been the case with a new S-Class we can look forward to a raft of new innovations when the new S Class launches late next year; clever stuff that will eventually filter down to the cars of lesser mortals as the technology matures and the cost falls.
And that clever stuff will be packaged up in a big saloon car – the normal S-Class – an even bigger car – the LWB S-Class – and a huge two door coupe – the Mercedes CL, which is expected to be renamed the S-Class Coupe when the new S-Class launches.
But it looks like the 2012 S-Class (2013 S-Class if you’re on the Colonial side of the Pond) will also spawn an S-Class Coupe Convertible, or whatever moniker Mercedes decides to attach to a car which looks like it’s planned to go up against Bentley’s Continental GTC and…probably nothing else.
Doubtless we will get every iteration of powertrain in the S Class Convertible, from a 200bhp four-pot all the way up to a mighty 650bhp AMG.
Another niche filled by Mercedes.
David says
Does this mean that Mercedes have finally realised how confusing their Class letter system is?
percy says
All very interesting as long as no one forgets that only fascist dictators can ever ride in the back of the Mercedes S Class Convertible.