2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe

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2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe First Drive The Personal Luxury Car It's an uncommon term today, but there was once a time when the "personal luxury car," as it was called, reigned supreme. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, personal luxury cars were all the rage among the prodigiously wealthy, peaking in popularity in the 1970s. Today, the class has mostly been lumped into the GT car category. Personal luxury cars were typically coupes, big and brash, with long hoods and short decks. They usually rode on shortened wheelbases and featured big V-8 power, but weren't preoccupied with sportiness. Though some of them adopted sports-car design cues, these cars were focused on luxury. Unlike GT cars, there wasn't much pretense about handling or outright performance. Being your own chauffeur in a car that screams "look at me" without being obnoxious about it was the modus operandi. This brings us to the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, the renamed and restyled replacement for the old CL-Class, which was itself effectively an S-Class coupe in all but name. Like those personal luxury cars of old, it rides on a shortened wheelbase and features big V-8 power, but isn't necessarily concerned with sporty driving, though it's certainly more capable in that regard. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY Refreshing Or Revolting: S-Class Coupe Discussion 2014 S-Class: Motor Trend Car Of The Year Contender 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class First Look Infiniti Presents: The Beast Within - Unleash It Now (video) 2015 Acura TLX: One Car Does Work of Two 2015 Astons: New Transmission, New Life 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe First Drive Editors' Picks: Horrible Cars Check Out Our YouTube Channel Subscribe to Motor Trend FROM OUR FRIENDS CAR CRAFT Miss Car Craft Summer Nationals Competition MUSTANG 360 SVT For Him & Her: 2004 Ford Mustang Cobra & F-150 Lightning SUPER CHEVY 1972 Chevrolet Nova - The Replacement for Displacement TO OUR E-MAIL SUBSCRIBERS: YOUR PRIVACY IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL IN ERROR OR WISH TO UNSUBSCRIBE, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Write to us at: Motor Trend Digital Newsletter 831 S. Douglas Street El Segundo, CA 90245 Privacy Policy (c) 2013 Source Interlink Media, Inc. All rights reserved.