Yes, This Really Is The Leaked 2018 Mercedes-Benz CLS
This is the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLS. We think. We’ve split-screened this and the old one and we’d swear it was just a facelift, but apparently we’d be wrong.
The images have been leaked by various social media channels (whoops) a day before its scheduled debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show.
They’re low-res files, but we get our first full look at the front, the back and the interior, where we can see the same sort of ambient lighting line as we’ve already clocked in the new A-Class. Expect that to change colours, like the smaller car’s does.
Mercedes’ designers have pinched the outer edges of the single-unit headlights, making them more triangular than before. The silhouette must be more or less identical partly thanks to a roof line that involved some fine use of copy and paste.
The grille is still vaguely trapezoidal, but this time the wider part is at the bottom, giving the impression of a lower, schpordier nose. On the lower bumper the grille apertures are much the same shapes and sizes as before.
Changes are more significant at the back. The flat, horizontal upper line running across the tailgate is in keeping with Mercedes’ latest – and stoically Germanic – designs, while we can also see the kind of fake exhaust trims that we’ve moaned about more than once. It looks very aerodynamic, at least, to give the slippery shape its due.
On the inside the two-tone leather interior of the example car is similar in its new design cues to the A-Class. Air vents that look like deeply-dished alloy wheels have illuminated strips just like the entry-level Benz does, while the displays are fully digital. The twin screens could be new 10.25-inch units or they could be 12.3-inch fatties like those we’ve seen used in higher-end Mercedes cars before.
Expect more technical details (and better pictures) to surface tomorrow, after the car’s official unveiling in LA.
Comments
Its OK looking, I don’t mind it.
Am i the only one who thinks it looks nasty and disproportionate? Shame, the old CLS models were handsome
I like it more than previous generations. I think it looks good, even if it doesn’t seem to follow Mercedes’ typical design choices.
it looks like its rideing 15inch wheels….the sills are just miniscule in comparison with the car itself.
Not only you man…
The interior is the bigger problem.
It looks like the 2018 mustang in the front though
This reminds me of a Audi/Mercedes love child. But I sort of like it.
Those acute angled triangular light design ruin the most of the elegant flowing lines. Why Mercedes, why? 😔
It looks like an annoyed fish
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I would like front of new CLS and back of CLS 2008. Back side of new CLS looks like boiled egg.
It looks blobby
That’s just horrible. No sculpture to the rear, just a flat down-syndrome looking thing. Those taillights are more generic then Uggs. The new upside-down grille allows more airflows where it’s needed least… towards the bottom of the grille, so now there’s more fake black plastic grille for us! Hooray! Lastly, those sharp and angular headlights do not compliment to the curvy body, it feels like two distinctly different element fighting for the attention on the front fascia. After the Project One and the new CLS, I hope MB can regain some design credibility with whichever car they unveil next.
They have really done great to make pretty car ugly!
Looks like a Jaguar XJL that got plastic surgery to become a Mercedes Benz
The XJL is a car that looks a hundred times better, especially the R