Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake set for 2012 market launch

Merc Shooting Break 1

It’s a case of all that potential being impossible to ignore – Mercedes-Benz has made the decision to put into serial production its CLS Shooting Brake concept car unveiled earlier this year in April at Auto China 2010.

The car is slated to make its market debut in 2012, and will be built at the company’s plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. No further details have been suggested at this point, but it’s safe to assume that the powertrain as well as drivetrain combinations found on the new CLS will be available here as well. The concept came wearing a 306 hp and 370 Nm 3.5 litre V6, working with a 7G-tronic tranny.

Merc Shooting Break 2

Curiously, the naming convention used at the start with the concept, which was Break, might now be tilting towards the homonym Brake. Ah well, as long as everyone knows what it is, I suppose – the Shooting Brake term was once given to carriages used to “break” in wild horses and also to restrict (or “brake”) their urge to move, so that they could be put to use as work horses, for those still not already in the know.

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Comments

  • Ordinary Joe on Nov 09, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Wierd name?!… But with a rear end like that, who cares i guess… gorgeous butt!

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  • Sureheboh! on Nov 09, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Mercedes Benz have reach a point of design which is the picture of their car looks very ugly compared to the real one. – opinion –

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    • tishaban on Nov 09, 2010 at 2:32 pm

      sureheboh, I’ve seen the latest CLS in real life and it is an ugly car compared to the previous gen. This version doesn’t help.

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  • Holly Fish on Nov 09, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    I like its tail lights.

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  • keluangman on Nov 09, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    shooting brake = brek menembak

    :p

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  • hybriddust on Nov 09, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Looks like a hearse…for the rich and famous.

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  • nolan on Nov 09, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Nice looks……………but i think Kim Kardashian look nicer in Halloween Costume than this new CLS….
    thumbs up if you agree with me….

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  • The front actually is the part that ruined the whole car. If they could take the last genration’s front, add some leds lighting and match it with the new gen’s back, it would improve for a lot!

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  • Beemie on Nov 09, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    Try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting-brake

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  • mitlanevo on Nov 09, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    not enough with the ruining of the 1st gen CLS, now they wanna mess up the CLS again…

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  • 4G63tDSM on Nov 09, 2010 at 7:28 pm

    I get the CLS, but I don’t get this one though.

    Why choose this over the W212 Wagon?

    On the flipside, I just sampled a new BMW 550GT x drive. Kind of makes the X6 redundent in BMW’s lineup.

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  • Jimmy on Nov 09, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    I wish the rear wheels can be positioned a few more inches to the back.

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  • become like…like a… like a Q7!!!
    still love the old cls more.. especially CLS55 AMG

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