Mercedes' newest coupe is silky
smooth and easy on the eyes
By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com
(September 22, 2024) Perhaps the traditional two-door coupe is nearing the end of its existence. The obsolescence trend of the two-door automobile started when German automakers (I'm talking about BMW, Mercedes and Porsche) started marketing four-door models as coupes. That apocryphal and lukewarm fashion exists alongside an atonement reparation for coupe enthusiasts with the newly minted Mercedes' CLE-Class two-door, an amalgamation of the brand's two-door C- and E-Class that attempts to replace both Coupe lines in one hit.