This is the Shooting Break concept car from Mercedes Benz that will make its debut in Auto China 2010. Although it’s in a shooting brake wagon style, a lot of what you see here will appear in the new CLS, which should be unveiled later this year. And if you’re wondering, there’s no typo in the name – Mercedes points out that the bodystyle’s history can be traced back to carriages used to “break” in wild horses.
Mercedes’ rival to the much less sleek BMW 5-Series GT and upcoming Audi A7 is wide and flat, with a long bonnet and a flowing roof, made to look more dramatic by the CLS-style plunging glasshouse. Up front, the Shooting Break uses a wide grille housing a big three pointed star, now standard in every Mercedes concept and soon to be implemented across the range. The grille is flanked by headlamps which for the first time feature LEDs (71 of them in total) for all light functions. Prominent on the side profile is an exaggerated beltline sweeping downwards to the rear, meeting strong rear haunches that’s also present on the W212 E-Class.
Open the frameless doors and you’ll find a very accurate preview of the CLS’ dash. Save for some funky hues and textures, it looks production ready and sports many elements that current Mercedes owners would be familiar with. The architecture is sleek and more minimalist that in the E-Class. This wagon has a full-length centre console that emphasises its four-seat layout, which looks very warm and inviting I must say.
The oak floor of the luggage compartment with aluminium loading strips look almost too beautiful to carry cargo. Notice the four saddle bags in the boot and the cursive-script used to spell “Mercedes” on the tail end of the centre console and door sills. There are ten square metres of leather padding this concept’s living space, which is a lot of dead cows for one car!
The concept is powered by a new 3.5-litre V6, with direct injection and a control system that enables lean-burn operation. It uses the latest generation piezo-electric injection valves which enable multiple injections. Even the operation of the ancillary components has been made more efficient and there is also a start/stop function. To come with the CLS, it pumps out 306 bhp and 370 Nm and will be paired to an upgraded 7G-tronic gearbox.
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Cool car….
SLS front….
Behind is having the same concept of Panemera.
Love the brown interior! Behind not bad. Overall great design!
front bumper looks familiar with BMW X M-sport..
its cool!
been loving mercedes cars ever since i was little… great interior and exterior… wonder how this car performs..
This is the first time that I actually like the interior of a Mercedes, as opposed to the usual uncle-y old-fashioned with cheap-looking wood panels, lol.
not nice,bt the engine bay looks awesome ! so neat
mini R-class?
why these days, the backseat consist of only two places to sit with the middle now becoming an arm rest?
instead of conventional 5 seater, now its only ride by 4 which is a bit shame if u ask me. i dont need the backseat middle arm rester because i’d love to bring another person in my car.
i can understand it if some are doing the armrest cum-folded back cushion so that whenever u are travelling with 4, the extra convenient of an armrest is welcomed. but whenever u travel with 5 on board, fold it back and it becomes seats for 3 at the back. which is really really good for me.
Maybe that is the way to bring out its luxury look of the car. nevertheless, this is a very nice piece or marvel engineering.
People which ends up with a 4 seat car also probably has an R- Class with 7 seats if needed.
;p
Solves the problem of the infighting of who gets the outside/window seat….. assume of course, you have only 2 kids.
hahahah
in other way mercedes are asking the people to buy 1 car for going out with 4 mates, and another to ferry 6. keh keh keh
nicey marketing job
Then this car isn’t for you. It’s aim is luxury, not practicality.
the back is too ugly lar ..
the current CLS is a lot better looking …
Is it ‘shooting break’ or ‘shooting brake’? pls enlighten me, thanks
Beautiful sophisticated design, precision engineering, impressive! just wondering if so much cow’s skin used izzit feasible in Indian/Hindu market?
it is indeed a beautiful car from mercedes benz. lately they have been coming out with gorgeous designs eclipsing the other german brands..i fell in love with the old (current) cls coupe and still do as i longingly admire them from afar..great job and well done mercedes benz! the interior is far more attractive than the new e-class. try as i may, i couldnt get myself to like the interior of the e-class as it just feels like a bigger interior of the c-class..of course the interior of the avant garde version is streets ahead of the boring elegance version..
The word is Shooting-BRAKE, not break.
“In the early 19th century, a brake was a large carriage-frame with no body, used for breaking in young horses. By the late 19th century the meaning had been extended to a large waggonette designed for country use. A “shooting brake” carried a driver and gamekeeper facing forward and up to six sportsmen on longitudinal benches with their dogs, guns and game carried alongside in slat-sided racks.”
source: http://www.autocar.co.uk/forums/t/13070.aspx
i love it….ta
the rear lamp look looks like hyundai genesis rear lamp…
hmmm…
aaahhhh, the engine, if wanna service, must bring to factory, open the cover.
soooooo….. mafan?
wasting time man. bad idea.
lol…a person who can own cars like this probably has no time servicing it him/her self…not to mention the skills as well….. =d
love the rear lights…
I can’t understand how can so many automotive forums get Shooting BREAK wrong. First Autoblog.com, now Paultan.org. Is it misspelt in the press release and everyone just copied it blindly? Or did the forums just copy each other blindly?
I can understand your frustration at what you think is a typo. However let me explain the story. Here’s the first paragraph of our story.
“This is the Shooting Break concept car from Mercedes Benz that will make its debut in Auto China 2010. Although it’s in a shooting brake wagon style, a lot of what you see here will appear in the new CLS, which should be unveiled later this year. And if you’re wondering, there’s no typo in the name – Mercedes points out that the bodystyle’s history can be traced back to carriages used to “break” in wild horses.”
Note the first bolded portion. That’s the official name of the car – shooting BREAK. And the second bolded portion, we explained its a shooting BRAKE wagon. Then we explained that there’s no typo – Mercedes-Benz’s official press release and official naming for this concept car is in fact SHOOTING BREAK and not SHOOTING BRAKE, even though the official spelling for the bodystyle is BRAKE and not BREAK. We were aware of the different spelling and explained it in our story. So yes, the “typo” is in the press release, but Mercedes-Benz seems to have intentionally called it BREAK and not BRAKE. Since its their concept car I believe they can call it whatever they want :P Mercedes-Benz attempts to explain it as well, here’s a paragraph quoted verbatim from the press release:
“It’s all in a name: the origins of the name “Shooting Break” or the homonym Brake, was the name 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. Since the carts could easily be broken as part of this process, people tended not to use ones which they may have urgently needed for other purposes. Where necessary, “Brakes” were often fitted out with variable bodies, which were only really used to carry along anything that may have been necessary for the hunt, for example. Any such vehicle which was used when going out shooting was called a Shooting Brake or Shooting Break. In the 1960s and 1970s motorised Shooting Breaks were popular in Great Britain – exclusive cross-over vehicles, which combined the luxuriousness of a coupé with the luggage space of an estate.”
TYVM Paul… i’m enlightened
wow
Awesome, cant wait to see what Brabus has to offer with this, Rocket Beast SV12?
Thanks Paul.
I guess MB is being consistent in using misnomers on their products, like calling a sedan a coupe and badging a 1.8 litre as a 250.
seat very similar with gen2…proud 2 b malaysian