Mercedes are entering a new era. There's a ton of stuff going on in Stuttgart at the moment, with the firm at its most creative and dynamic for decades.
Witness their new CLS Shooting Break. Radical enough for any car manufacturer - let alone the three-pointed star - it's the horniest estate for miles.
Forget any ideas of competing with the E-Class, and hauling dogs, children and dirty nappies to and from the local gymkhana.
This is a new genre altogether, a Merc tourer that's low, aggressive, irresistible, and swathed in uptown materials and technology.
Traditionalists will like the oak and hide cabin with its art deco flourishes, while there'll be new, ultra-efficient and frugal 3.5 V6 and 4.6 V8 petrol engines mated to a seven-speed box, plus possible hybrid and electric versions.
The slippery styling's likely to become current across the whole range and will form a major element of MB's aesthetic grammar. So don't think this is just another concept, spinning pointlessly on a Beijing turntable.
I'll bet my trousers the sensual CLS Shooting Break won't just make into production.
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